CTRF 43rd Annual Conference
Shaking Up Canada’s Transportation Systems to Meet Future Needs
Secouer les systemes de transports au Canada pour faire face aux besoins futurs
June 1 – 4, 2008
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Papers & Presentations
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Opening Plenary Session – Presentations Only: Shaking up Canada’s Transportation Systems to Meet Future Needs
Moderator: Nick Mulder, Former Deputy Minister of Transport Canada and Current Policy Consultant
Speakers:
- Cliff Mackay, President and CEO Railway Association of Canada, Ottawa
- Gary LeRoux, Executive Director Association of Canadian Port Authorities, Ottawa
- Michael Tretheway, Vice President Executive Vice President & Chief Economist, InterVISTAS Consulting, Vancouver
- David Bradley, CEO Canadian Trucking Alliance and President of the Ontario Trucking Association, Toronto
I. Transportation Issues
- Sean Nix – Travel Demand modelling and the modifiable areal unit problem
- Sudipta Sarkar and Richard Tay – A Simple Framework For Prioritizing Road Safety Fund For Different Geographical Regions in Bangladesh
- Frédéric Lapointe and Emmanuel Guy – Corridors de commerce : solution clef en main?
- Delwinde-Hermann Tapsoba – Forecasting Canadians’ New Vehicles Penetration With Atemporal Panel Data
II. Transportation Costs
- William G. Waters II – Issues in Valuing Travel Time for Calculating the Total Social Costs of Transportation
- Eugène Karangwa – Estimating the Financial Cost of Pipeline Transportation in Canada
- Vijay Gill – Canadian Transportation Price and Productivity Performance, 1981-2005
- Joseph Monteiro – The Recent Competition Authorities Drive to End or Reduce IATA’s Immunity from Competition Laws
III. Trucker’s Issues
- Rob Weston and Garland Chow – The Status of Owner-Operators Under the Canada Labour Code Is Change Needed?
- Andrew Laing and James Nolan – Price Dynamics and Market Structure in Transportation: For-hire Grain Trucking along the Alberta-Saskatchewan Border
- Masood Hassan, Robyn McGregor, Peter Kilburn and Robert Hastings – Trucking Industry’s Perspective on Highway and Street Improvement Needs
- Rob Weston and Garland Chow – Effectiveness of Part III of the Canadian Labour Code on the Trucking Industry – the Employee Perspective
Panel Session: Envisioning a North American Freight Transportation System in 2030
Moderator: Stephen Blank, North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council
Speakers:
- Mary Brooks, Dalhousie University
- Brian Crowley, AIMS
- Malcolm Cairns, Canadian Pacific Railway
- Barry Prentice, University of Manitoba
IV. Rail Policy
- James Nolan and Derek Brewin – The Evolution of the Canadian Prairie Grain Handling and Transportation System
- François Tougas – Regulatory Efficiency and Equity for Federal Freight Rail Pricing and Service
- Joseph Monteiro – Is the Running Rights Provision as a Form of Railway Competition Dead? Competitive Access – III
V. Gateways and Corridors
- Hamidreza. Bahramian – Measures Supporting Better Trade and Transport Between Asia and Europe
- Emmanuel Guy and Frédéric Lapointe – Gateways and Trade Corridors Initiatives : A Paradigm-Shift for Transportation Planning in Canada?
Panel Session: Railway Safety Act Review
Moderator: Jean Patenaude: Assistant General Counsel, CN
Speakers:
- Tim Meisner: Executive Director; Railway Safety Act Review Secretariat, Transport Canada
- Maury Hill: Maury Hill and Associates, Inc.
- Joseph Schulman: Principal Consultant, CPCS Transcom Ltd – The State of Rail Safety in Canada
VII. Air Interfaces
- Jiajun Li, Richard Tay and Alexandre de Barros – Quantitative Analysis of Automobile Parking at Airports
- James DeArmon, Sarah Stalnaker, Rafael Katkin and Michael McKinney – Benefits Analysis of an Air Traffic Flow Management Capability
- Gordon Baldwin – Airline Schedule Veracity–a Canada-US Comparison
- Matthew Morris, Ed Bruning and Barry Prentice – National Loyalty and Identity in Airline Choice
VIII. Road Use
- Raktim Mitra – Active School Transport in the Greater Toronto Area
- Barry Prentice – Re-engineering Urban Bus Transport
- Kalina Soltys and Ron Buliung – Commuting Connections: Gender, Carpooling and Cyberspace
- Ming Zhong, Satish Sharma and Satyasrinivas Gadidasu and Sandeep Delta – Sensitivity Analysis of AADT Estimation Accuracy Based on Partial and Imputed PTC Data
Panel Session: Policy and Planning Support Committee Member Views on the Conference Theme
Moderator: Doug Johnson, P/Eng, Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy, Strategic Development & Intergovernmental Relations, New Brunswick Department of Transportation
Speakers:
- M. André Meloche, Director of Maritime, Air and Rail Transport ( Directeur du transport maritime, aérien et ferroviaire) Ministère des Transports du Québec
- Kristine Burr, Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy, Transport Canada
- David O’Toole, Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy & Planning, Ministry of Transportation, Province of Ontario
- Kathie Miller, Assistant Deputy Minister, Transportation Planning and Policy, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation
- Jim Stevens, Director Planning, Policy & Environment, Department of Transportation, Government of the Northwest Territories
IX. Logistics Management in Canada
- Clarence Woudsma – Gateway No Way – Planning Challenges for Freight in Metropolitan Canada
- Gerald Robertson and Joseph Monteiro – Logistics/Supply Chain Management in Canada
- Brian Wirth, Dave Wolters and Stephen Wright – The Manitoba Food Supply under a Pandemic Study: Research Methods and Results
X. Road Infrastructure
- Saleh Dabous – A Unified Condition Index for Existing Concrete Bridges in Canada
- Shabani Kachua, Donath Mrawira and Ming Zhong – Adjacency Modeling Tool for Civil Infrastructure Assets
- Shakil Mohammad Rifaat and Richard Tay – Grid or Limited Access Roads: Effects of Street Pattern on Road Crashes
XI. Green Transport
- Hayk Khachatryan, Eric Jessup and Ken Casavant – A Geographic Information Systems Approach to Estimating Delivered Cost of Energy Feedstocks
- Hanna Maoh and Pavlos Kanaroglou – Patterns of Land Use Development and Sustainable Transportation: A Simulation Approach
- Amjad Khan and Alexandre G. de Barros – The Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems in Reducing the Impact of Traffic Pollution on the Environment and Health
XII. Transportation Challenges
- Benjamin Atkinson and Joseph Monteiro – The Reforms in Marine Pilotage – Have They Succeeded?
- Benjamin Atkinson and Joseph Monteiro – Canadian Transportation System – Do We Have To Shake It Up To Meet Future Needs?
- Jean-François Pelletier and Yann Alix – Perspective on Ship Acquisition in Canada Ralph Craft – The Large Truck Crash Causation Study
XIII. Supply Chains
- Ming Zhong, Pawan Lingras, Will Blades and John Douglas Hunt – Evolving Parameters of Logit Model using Genetic Algorithms
- Michael A. Haughton – The Bullwhip Effect on Carriers: Inventory Policy Considerations
- Cyril Foropon and Barry Prentice – Improving Process Quality in Healthcare Operations Management Practice
Panel Session: Shaking up the Canadian Transportation System: Student Perspectives
Moderator: Trevor Hanson, UNB
Speakers:
- Amjad Khan University of Calgary
- Sean Nix Ryerson University
- Ahmed Dassouki University of New Brunswick
- Delwinde-Hermann Tapsoba Laval University
XIV. Transport in NAFTA
- Gerald Robertson and Joseph Monteiro – Tourism and Tour Operators in Canada
- Barry Prentice and Ron McLachlin – Refrigerated Transport to Mexico: Cold Chain Opportunities and Challenges
- William Anderson – Addressing the Potential for Increased Intermodal Freight Movements Through Canada-US Border Crossings
XV. Port Possibilities
- Michael C. Ircha – Opportunities and Challenges Facing Canadian Ports
- Darren Prokop – The Past as Prologue: Alaska as a Crucible in North American Maritime History
- James Christie and Mark Gunter – Potential Options for Improving the Distribution of Asian Sourced Retail Freight Arriving Through the Port of Halifax
Student Paper Competition Winners 2006-2007
Undergraduate Category
1st Prize (Past President’s Award)
Masters Papers
1st Prize (A.M. Stevens Award)
Brody Hanson – Estimating Traffic Volumes for Low-Class Roads Using Travel Demand Modeling
2nd Prize
Farhana Ferdous – Modeling Out-of-Home Recreational Activity Duration using Hazardbased Duration Models with Latent Heterogeneity