Recent U.S. Research on Safety Evaluation of Low-Cost Road Engineering Safety Countermeasures – Lessons for Canada
This paper synthesizes results to date and assesses relevance to the Canadian context for the Federal High Administration’s (FHWA’s) “Evaluation of Low Cost Safety Improvements...
Session title: LOW-COST ROAD ENGINEERING SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES AND THEIR APPLICATION ACROSS CANADA
Organizers: Road Safety Standing Committee
Authors: Bhagwant Persaud, Kimberley Eccles, Roya Amjadi
2010
Regional Strategic Transportation Plan Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
The key economic engines in Alberta’s Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo are oil sands development, gas processing, forestry, and tourism activities. The Municipality’s rapid growth...
Session title: BEST PRACTICES IN URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING (A)
Organizers: Transportation Planning & Research Standing Committee
Authors: Sumon Khan, Bryan Petzold
2010
Rehabilitation of the Armdale Rotary
Prior to improvements constructed in 2007, the Armdale Rotary was a non-conforming traffic circle, located in the Armdale district of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The intersection receives vehicles from...
Session title: INNOVATIVE WAYS TO INCREASE TRAFFIC SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY
Organizers: Traffic Operations & Management Standing Committee
Authors: Mark Lenters
2010
Reversible Lanes in Utah Adding Efficiency Safely
AECOM developed the preliminary concept and final design for a three kilometre long reversible lane system for SR-173 (5400 South) in the Salt Lake City metro area of Utah. The goal of this...
Session title: INNOVATIVE WAYS TO INCREASE TRAFFIC SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY
Organizers: Traffic Operations & Management Standing Committee
Authors: Alfred A Guebert, Diego Carroll, Brandon Weston, Dave Kinnecom
2010
Right-Sizing Transit: What is a Reasonable Level of Transit Investment?
In recent years, the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) has successfully brought public transit to the forefront of elected officials at all levels, the planning industry and the...
Session title: RIGHT-SIZING OF TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Organizers: Urban Transportation Council
Authors: Wally Beck, Mark Mis
2010
Right‐Sizing Fleet: A Halifax Example
Metro Transit is the primary transit service provider in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). The population of HRM is spread over an area similar in size to Prince Edward Island...
Session title: RIGHT-SIZING OF TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Organizers: Urban Transportation Council
Authors: Eddie Robar, Dave Reage
2010
ROUNDABOUTS AT THE LARRY UTECK INTERCHANGE IN HALIFAX
Three multi-lane roundabouts are being implemented along Larry Uteck Boulevard in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Two are at the Highway 102 interchange, and a third is to the east at Nine Mile Drive/...
Session title: INNOVATION IN INTERCHANGE DESIGN
Organizers: Geometric Design Standing Committee
Authors: Keith Boddy, Philip Weber
2010
Safety Assessment of a Rural Highway in a Design Process
Transportation agencies are constantly faced with the challenge of upgrading their road network systems; as infrastructure ages and traffic volumes increase. However, improvements to...
Session title: LOW-COST ROAD ENGINEERING SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES AND THEIR APPLICATION ACROSS CANADA
Organizers: Road Safety Standing Committee
Authors: Josée Dumont, Alireza Hadayeghi, Élias El Haddad, Chantal Dagenais, Hélène Lévesque, Isabel Lemaire
2010
Sensitivity of Subgrade Resilient Modulus to Moisture Variation
Subgrade soil is the foundation soil that supports the different pavement layers and the dynamic load of traffic. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials guide for the...
Session title: DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF MATERIALS
Organizers: Soils and Materials Standing Committee
Authors: Haithem Soliman, Ahmed Shalaby
2010
Smart About Salt
This document describes the Region of Waterloo’s smart about salt™ winter salt management
program and is submitted to the Knowledge Management Working Group, Transportation...
Session title: 2009 TAC EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD NOMINATIONS
Organizers: Education & Human Resources Development Council
Authors:
2010