Centre City Cycle Track Network Pilot Project In-Service Safety Review
In 2015, the City of Calgary opened its Centre City Cycle Track Network as an 18-month pilot project. City Council will make a decision on the future of the pilot project in December 2016. To...
Session title: 2017 Road Safety Engineering Award
Organizers: Road Safety Standing Committee
Authors: Patterson, B.
2017
Clean Roads to Clean Air Program
Session title: 2017 Environmental Achievement Award Nominations
Organizers: Environment Council, Environmental Issues Management Standing Committee
Authors: City of Toronto
2017
Comparison between AASHTO and CHBDC Design Methods for MSE Retaining Wall and its Implications on Transportation Agencies
Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) structures have been used in their current form since the
early 1970s. MSE structures have become the solution of choice over traditional retaining...
Session title: Structures
Organizers: Structures Standing Committee
Authors: Essery, D., Taylor, T., El-Sharnouby, M.
2017
Comparison of Modern Concrete Pavement Performance Predictions, Thickness Requirements, and Sensitivity to Joint Spacing
Session title: Innovations in Pavement Management, Engineering and Technologies
Organizers: Pavements Standing Committee
Authors: Rodden, R., Sullivan, S., Covarrubias, J.P., Nantasai, B.
2017
Concrete Sidewalk Design Analysis and Optimization for Improved Life Cycle and Sustainability
The City of Calgary (The City) has a multimillion-dollar sidewalk replacement backlog. The condition-based preventive maintenance and the corrective maintenance are faced with challenges with...
Session title: Innovations in Pavement Management, Engineering and Technologies
Organizers: Pavements Standing Committee
Authors: Czarnecki, B., Poon, B.
2017
Conservation Dogs to Detect Blanding’s Turtle Nests prior to Road Rehabilitation Activities
Blanding’s Turtles nest in the granular shoulders of roadways, burying eggs beneath the ground surface. Visual detection of nests is not possible. Highway rehabilitation can damage or...
Session title: 2017 Environmental Achievement Award Nominations
Organizers: Environment Council, Environmental Issues Management Standing Committee
Authors: Priddle, Mark
2017
CPR Yards Functional Design Crossing Study
Stantec was retained by the City of Winnipeg to complete a Functional Design Crossing Study over the CPR Yards located in North West Winnipeg. The Yards were...
Session title: Investing in Road Construction: Building Canada’s Economy Session
Organizers: Maintenance & Construction Standing Committee
Authors: Boissonneault, M., Amy, K., Suderman, S.
2017
Creation of the Bonshaw Hills Provincial Park and Protection of Provincially Owned Land
The Bonshaw Hills Public Lands Committee, is a multi-stakeholder committee, comprised of government and non-government individuals, representing organizations from the Transportation, Tourism...
Session title: 2017 Environmental Achievement Award Nominations
Organizers: Environment Council, Environmental Issues Management Standing Committee
Authors: Thompson, B.
2017
Deltaport Causeway Overpass: How to Construct a Complex Bridge Overpass on a Narrow Causeway in Challenging Soil Conditions
The Deltaport Causeway Overpass in Vancouver B.C. was the centerpiece of a $45 million upgrade of the transportation infrastructure at Canada’s busiest container port terminal. The project...
Session title: Structures
Organizers: Structures Standing Committee
Authors: Culpan, S., Jiang, J.
2017
Design & Implementation of Channelized Right Turn Improvements in the City of Edmonton
The City of Edmonton has committed to the long term goal of zero traffic fatalities and serious
injuries. Moving towards that goal, the City of Edmonton has allocated funding for a...
Session title: Geometric Design – Lessons Learned
Organizers: Geometric Design Standing Committee
Authors: McDonough, P., Ivany, M.
2017
