CTRF 44th Annual Conference
The Impact of Volatility of Canada’s Supply Chains and Transportation
L’impact de la volatilite sur les transports et les chaines d’approvisionnement
May 24 – 27, 2009
Victoria, British Columbia
Papers & Presentations
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Opening Plenary Session – Presentations Only: Supply Chain Strategies in Volatile Times:
Moderator: Garland Chow, University of British Columbia
Speakers:
- Chris Badger, Chief Operating Officer, Port Metro Vancouver
- David Watson, President, OOCL Canada
- Jean-Jacques Ruest, Senior Vice-President, Marketing, CN
- Peter Bernard, Bernard & Partners Barristers and Solicitors
I. Safety I
- Huafei Sun, Lina Kattan and Richard Tay – A Logistic Model of Hit-and-Run Crashes in Calgary
- Manoj Shah, Richard Tay and Lina Kattan – Fatality Risk Factors of Pedestrian-Vehicle Collision in Calgary
- Amjad Khan, Lina Kattan, Richard Tay, and Jaisung Choi – Severity of Pedestrian-vehicle Crashes in South Korea
II. Special Topics
- Kathy Chmelnytzki and Siobhan VanDeKeere – Logistics of Special Event Planning in a Lean Economy
- Michael A. Haughton and Kurt White – Supply Chain Skill Requirements: Insights for Post-secondary Training
- Joshua Newman – Transportation P3s Help Shape Canada’s Urban Centres
III. Logistics
- Magali Amiel and Michael Kieran – Inland Hub – La Face Cachée
- Paul D. Larson and Matthew Morris – An Inland Port in a Storm
- Blake Kotylak – Struggling to Make Strategic Changes to Industrial Product Manufacturer’s Transportation Systems
IV. Urban Transportation
- Hanna Maoh, Pavlos Kanaroglou and Justin Ryan – The Impacts of Future Economic Growth on Urban Commercial Vehicle Movement in Hamilton, Ontario
- Jairo Viafara – Promoting Innovative Freight Practices for Small Drayage and Cartage Companies in the Winnipeg Capital Region: A WinSmart Showcase Initiative
- Joseph Monteiro, Gerald Robertson and Meghan Joy – Urban Transportation in Canada
Plenary Session: – Presentations Only Competitive Access in a Volatile Environment
Moderator: Paul Ouimet, InterVISTAS
Speakers:
- Rick Steinke, Canadian Wheat Board
- Walter Spracklin, RBC Capital Markets
- Malcolm Cairns, Canadian Pacific Railway
V. Safety II
- Shakil Mohammad Rifaat and Richard Tay – Effect of Street Pattern on Single Vehicle Crash Severity
- Shanti Acharjee and Richard Tay – Managing Speed at School and Playground Zones
- Thomas Richter and Benedikt Zierke – Safe Design of Rural Roads by Normalized Road Characteristics
VI. Short Sea Shipping/Logistics
- Emmanuel Guy and Frédéric Lapointe – Integrating Short Sea Shipping to Supply Chains: The Performance of the Coastal Trading License System
- Mary R. Brooks and James D. Frost – Short Sea Developments in Europe: Lessons for Canada
- Barry E. Prentice and Ron McLachlin – Empty Railcar Backhauls from Mexico: Opportunities for Refrigerated Trade
VII. Gateways & Corridors
- Frédéric Lapointe and Emmanuel Guy – Atlantic Gateway: Looking Forward to Harmonise Planning?
- Lei Fan, William W. Wilson and Denver Tolliver – Logistical Rivalries and Impacts of Canada’s Logistics Systems on U.S. Container Supply Chain
- Rod B. Taylor, Gordon W. English and David C. Hackston – Southern Ontario Gateway Transportation and Logistics Issues
VIII. Data and Modelling
- Ana Yanes – Trucking Activity Data. Where in Canada?
- Réjean Doiron – Large and Small Passenger Vehicle Use in Canada
- Matthew Roorda, Rinaldo Cavalcante, Hossam Abdelgawad, Baher Abdulhai and Clarence Woudsma – Exclusive Truck Facilities in the Toronto Area: Rationale and Model Development
IX. Environment I
- Clarence Woudsma and Jean Andrey – Sharing the Road to Green? Supply Chains, Consumers and Indicators of Sustainability
- Stephen Blank and Barry E. Prentice – Greening North America’s Trade Corridors
- Terry Zdan and Marika Olynyk – Policy Influence on Volatility Impacting Urban Transportation
X. Trucking
- Lloyd L. Ash – Remote Sampling of Truck Sector Productivity and Safety
- Wen Xie and Matthew J. Roorda – Commodity-based Goods Movement Model for the Ontario Auto Industry
- Matthew J. Roorda, Colin Warkentin, Phil Masters and Bryce Sharman – A System for Real-time Monitoring of Truck GPS, Truck Engine and Bluetooth Device Data on an Urban Freeway
XI. Security
- Dave Wolters and Stephen Wright – The Manitoba Food Supply under a Pandemic Study: Supply and Distribution
- Hossam Abdelgawad and Baher Abdulhai – Optimizing Mass Transit Utilization in Emergency Evacuation of Congested Urban Areas
- William P. Anderson – Cross-border Supply Chains in the Post 9/11 Security Environment
XII. Environment II
- Amy E. Moen – Strange Bedfellows, or A Love Story in Two Acts: ICAO and the Kyoto Protocol
- Darren Prokop – The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: The Final Chapter?
- Bruno Jacques – Emission Trading Systems and Transportation
XIII. Economics
- James Young – The Impact of the Increased Price of Crude Oil on the Transportation Sector
- Robin Lindsey – Congestion Pricing with Loss-averse Drivers
- Vijay Gill – Volatility and the Cost of Capital in the Transportation Sector
XIV. Border
- Susan Albrecht, Anne Goodchild, and Li Leung – A Description of Commercial Cross Border Trips in the Cascade Gateway and Trade Corridor
- Michael Haughton and Sapna Isotupa – Towards Optimal Configuration of Truck Processing Operations at the Detroit-Windsor Border Crossing
- Garland Chow – Private Sector benefits of Adopting FAST: The Canada-U.S. Transport Market
XV. Policy
- Joseph Monteiro and Benjamin Atkinson – Cabotage – Are We Ready? How is it Dealt with in Various Sectors of Transportation in Canada?
- Paul D. Earl – Public Sector, Private Sector: Jane Jacobs’s Non-ideological Ideas on What Belongs Where
- Trevor D. Heaver – Canadian Railway Service Issues in 2009: An essay 50 years on from the appointment of the MacPherson Commission In Honour of Professor Frederick W. Anderson
XVI. Rail
- Philip Laird – Australian Freight Railways and Commodity Exports
- Joseph Monteiro and Benjamin Atkinson – Final Offer Arbitration – Does it Provide Shippers with More Competitive Rates?
- Ramaz Samrout, Koby Kobia, Ryan Dallaway, Rakesh Manhas, Tom O’Hearn, Vivek Prakash and Wilfred Wong – A Comparison of the Rail Regulatory Regimes in Canada and the United States
XVII. Air
- Barry E. Prentice and Stuart Russell – Competing Technologies and Economic Opportunities for Northern Logistics: the Airship Solution
- Pamela Ritchie and John Rowcroft – Increasing Air Service to Smaller Communities
- Monica Lipai and Gordon G. Baldwin – Elasticity of Small Aircraft Use With Changing Fuel Costs? I Love Flying My Small Plane
CTRF 2007-2008 Student Paper Competition Award Winning Papers
Past Presidents Award, First Prize, Undergraduate Category
Paul Grosman – Exploring Ways of Reducing Moose-vehicle Collisions Through the Use of an Agent-based Modelling Computer Simulation
Jim Davey Award, First Prize, PhD Category
Amir Golroo – Use of Soft Computing Applications to Model Pervious Concrete Pavement Structure in Cold Climates