Mayor Magrath Drive Upgrade Balancing Road Efficiency With Business Access
How do you successfully plan, design and construct a major urban corridor balancing roadway efficiency, community values and business needs? Create a process that builds community, business,...
Session title: ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS - FUNDING AND BENEFITS
Organizers: Geometric Design Standing Committee
Authors: Mark Bellamy, P., Bud Hogeweide, C.E.T
2003
MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF NOVA SCOTIA’S HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
The Province uses three different, yet related, methods of measuring the effectiveness of Highway Maintenance activities. The primary tool is the Department’s Highway Maintenance Standards...
Session title: PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR ROAD MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
Organizers: Maintenance & Construction Standing Committee
Authors: RICHARD, P
2003
MEDICINE RIVER BRIDGE REHABILITATION
The Medicine River Bridge is located in central Alberta on Highway 11, midway between Red Deer and Rocky Mountain House. The bridge is a three span cast-in-place concrete girder bridge constructed...
Session title: BRIDGES – ENGINEERING IMPACTING SOCIETY (A)
Organizers: Structures Standing Committee
Authors: Ramsay, B
2003
NEIGHBOURHOOD TRAFFIC PLANS - A PLANNING APPROVALS PROCESS
Canadian municipalities are recognizing the merits of conducting formal traffic management reviews of proposed development plans to avert potential traffic calming concerns, particularly during...
Session title: INNOVATIONS IN TRAFFIC OPERATIONS SAFETY
Organizers: Traffic Operations & Management Standing Committee
Authors: Lenters, M
2003
North Bay Twenty Years Later - A Case Study of Proper Design and Construction of Interlocking Concrete Pavement
In 1983, North Bay, Ontario completed construction of over 14,000 square meters (150,000 sq. ft.) of interlocking concrete pavement on a one-kilometre section of downtown Main Street. The project...
Session title: LONG-LIFE PAVEMENTS – CONTRIBUTING TO CANADA’S INFRASTRUCTURE (A)
Organizers: Pavements Standing Committee
Authors: Baker, B.R., Burak, R.J.
2003
OBTAINING TRAVELLER INFORMATION VIA MOBILE PHONE LOCATION REFERENCING – CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Advanced traveller information systems (ATIS) constitute one of the key elements of ITS. While a great deal of research has been conducted to examine various aspects of ATIS, such as data fusion,...
Session title: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN TRAFFIC OPERATIONS
Organizers: Traffic Operations & Management Standing Committee
Authors: Hellinga, B., Fu, L., Takada, H.
2003
Opportunities for the Application of Intelligent Transportation Systems to Commercial Vehicle Operations (ITS-CVO) in the Prairie Region for Truck Safety Improvement
Improving motor carrier and highway safety is a primary focus of many transportation agencies in Canada and the U.S. With the decreased building of new infrastructure, and the rapid growth of...
Session title: ROAD SAFETY – WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE CANADA SAFER
Organizers: Road Safety Standing Committee
Authors: Montufar, J, McGregor, R
2003
PROVENCHER CABLE-STAYED PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
An extensive public consultation process lead to Provencher Paired Bridges solution consisting of both vehicular and pedestrian bridge structures, to replace the existing Provencher Vehicular...
Session title: BRIDGES – ENGINEERING IMPACTING SOCIETY (A)
Organizers: Structures Standing Committee
Authors: van Ginkel, R, Shehata, E, Ebenspanger, B
2003
REGIONAL ITS ARCHITECTURES – FROM POLICY TO PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
The ITS Architecture for Canada is a presentation of functional and physical ITS elements and how they are integrated. Transportation agencies in a particular region or area should use the ITS...
Session title: MacIver, A
Organizers: Transportation Planning & Research Standing Committee
Authors: McGregor,R.V
2003
Road Congestion Assessment « From theory to practice » Case of the Greater Montréal Road Network
The first part of the presentation outlines the current congestion-related concepts, the measurements and indicators used elsewhere, and it describes the method and indicators developed for...
Session title: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN TRAFFIC OPERATIONS
Organizers: Traffic Operations & Management Standing Committee
Authors: Robitaille, M, Nguyen, T
2003