Practitioner's Guide to Planning, Designing, and Implementing Bicycle Highways in North America
North American cities need excellent bicycle infrastructure between regional destinations to
allow residents to cycle long distances. Planners must make long distance bicycle travel
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Session title: Cycling Solutions: Improving Cycling Infrastructure
Organizers: Sustainable Transportation Standing Committee
Authors: Taciuk, A., Davidson, G.
2018
Redeveloping the Bonatenture Highway as an Urban Boulevard
Session title: 2018 Sustainable Urban Transportation Award
Organizers: Sustainable Transportation Standing Committee, Urban Transportation Council
Authors: Jerémie Carrière
2018
Reducing Urban Heat Island Effect by Using Light Colour Asphalt Pavement
Session title: Testing and Modelling of Road and Embankment Materials
Organizers: Soils and Materials Standing Committee
Authors: Uzarowski, L., Rizvi, R., Manolis, S.
2018
Reducing Urban Heat Island Effect by Using Light Coloured Asphalt Pavement
“Non Roof”. Credit 7.1 requires that at a minimum 50% of the hardscape (roads, sidewalks,
courtyards, and parking lots) be constructed using materials having a Solar Reflective...
Session title: Testing and Modelling of Road and Embankment Materials
Organizers: Soils and Materials Standing Committee
Authors: Uzarowski, L., Rizvi, R., Manolis, S.
2018
Replacement of the City of Saskatoon’s Historic Traffic Bridge
Originally built in 1907, the Traffic Bridge was Saskatoon’s first bridge to carry vehicular traffic. The Traffic Bridge was designed as a 5-span Parker through truss and came into being...
Session title: Structures
Organizers: Structures Standing Committee
Authors: DeGrow, K., Richer, J.
2018
Re‐exploring the AASHTO 1993 Method for a Cost‐Effective Pavement Design in Manitoba
Pavement structures costs constitute to the majority of the total costs of highway construction projects. Therefore, it is important to optimize each pavement structure to avoid an under‐...
Session title: Innovations in Pavement Management, Engineering and Technologies
Organizers: Pavements Standing Committee
Authors: Ahammed, M.A.
2018
Safety Evaluation of Lane Widths in the City of Edmonton
This paper synthesizes the results of a project completed for the City of Edmonton in 2017 to recommend lane width values for the City’s Complete Streets Design and Construction Standards....
Session title: Geometric Design Considerations and Emerging Issues
Organizers: Geometric Design Standing Committee
Authors: Peterniak, R., Milligan, C., Muhammed, A., Niepsuj, J.
2018
Safety Swing Arm to Prevent Collisions with Snow Plows
SNC Lavalin O&M is the company responsible for the operations, maintenance
and rehabilitation of 275 kilometres of Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick;
from the Quebec border...
Session title: 2018 TAC Road Safety Engineering Award
Organizers: Road Safety Standing Committee
Authors: Romeo Poitras
2018
Saskatoon BRT – A Catalyst for City Building
An economic and cultural hub in Saskatchewan, Saskatoon has become one of the most attractive places in Canada to live. In the next 25 to 40 years, Saskatoon’s population is expected to...
Session title: Best Practices in Urban Transportation Planning
Organizers: Urban Transportation Council
Authors: Schulz, C., Hubbell, J.
2018
Shared Roads Accessible to All: Ville de Montréal`s Collaborative
A research project with the goal of identifying universal accessibility parameters for shared streets was developed by the Transportation Branch of the City of Montreal’s Infrastructure,...
Session title: 2018 Sustainable Urban Transportation Award
Organizers: Sustainable Transportation Standing Committee, Urban Transportation Council
Authors: Pierre-Étienne Gendron
2018
