51st Annual Conference – 2016
CTRF 51 Annual Conference
CTRF-TRF Joint Conference
North American Transport Challenges in an Era of Change
Toronto, Ontario
May 1-4, 2016
Platinum Sponsor
Papers are organized by conference session.
Records of the 2016 CTRF Conference Papers can also be found in the TAC Library catalogue, and the international TRID database at the following link: TRID: CTRF 2016
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Terence Dimatulac and Hanna Maoh
Simulating Transportation and Environmental Outcomes of Electric Vehicle Adoption Scenarios: An Application to the Windsor Census Metropolitan Area
Mark Ferguson, Moataz Mahmoud, Chris Higgins, Elnaz Abotalebi and Pavlos
Kanaroglou
A Consumer Latent Class Choice Model to Assess Prospects for Electric Vehicles in Canada
Junshi Xu, An Wang and Marianne Hatzopoulou
Investigating Near-Road Particle Number Concentrations along A Busy Urban Corridor with Varying Built Environment Characteristics
Maryam Shekarrizfard and Marianne Hatzopoulou
Assessment of Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution in a Large Urban Area: Impact of Individual Mobility and Transit Investment Scenarios
Richard D. Stewart, Natalie Burger, Erica Hansen, Gavin Johnson
An analysis of the status of undergraduate transportation management education in the United States
Pierre Barrieau and Victor Silvestrin-Racine
Planning For Real or For Show? An Analysis of the Completion of Montreal's Transportation Plans
Hanna Maoh and Kevin Gingerich
SMARTPLANS: Simulation Model for Assessing the Ramifications of Transportation Policies and Land-Use Scenarios
Joseph Monteiro and Barry E. Prentice
The Tale of Taxi Reforms in Two Cities: The Failure of Closed Entry
An Wang, Masoud Fallahshorshani, Junshi Xu and Marianne Hatzopoulou
Characterizing Near-Road Air Pollution Using Local-Scale Emission and Dispersion Models and Validation against In-Situ Measurements
M. Fallah Shorshani and Marianne Hatzopoulou
Microscopic Modeling for Atmospheric Urban Pollutant Dispersion in Dense Urban Road Networks
Michael Gullo and Enrique Rosales
Part of the Problem, or Part of the Solution? How Canada’s Railways Can Help Address Climate Change
Taylor Zhou, Heather L. MacLean and Matthew Roorda
Life Cycle Assessment of a Diesel and a Compressed Natural Gas Medium-Duty Truck. The Case of Toronto
BICYCLE, PEDESTRIAN, PUBLIC TRANSIT, TRAVEL DEMAND ANALYSIS
Ranjit Godavarthy, Jeremy Mattson
Evaluation Study of Bike Share Program in Fargo, ND
Ahmadreza Faghih Imani, Naveen Eluru
Examining the Impact of Sample Size in the Analysis of Bicycle Sharing Systems
Charles M. Burke and Darren M. Scott
Is the Bloor Danforth corridor a ‘Sensible Location’ for a Separated Bike Lane?
Andrew Andrusko, Eunsu Lee
System Wide Pedestrian Planning Efforts: An Analysis of Current Planning Trends
Amelia C. Regan, Nicola Christie, Reza Asadi, Dmitri Arkhipov
Integration of Crowdsourced and Traditional Data for Route Analysis and Route Finding for Pedestrians with Disabilities
Teddy Lin, Amer Shalaby and Eric Miller
Transit User Behaviour in Response to Service Disruption: State of Knowledge
Arthur Guzzetti and John Wesley Neff
A New Modal Classification System for Public Transportation
Melvin Wong, Bilal Farooq and Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau
Next Direction Route Choice Model for Cyclists Using Panel Data
Christopher D. Higgins and Pavlos S. Kanaroglou
Unbundling the Hedonic Price Effects of Rapid Transit and Transit-Oriented Development in Toronto
Caroline Miller, Ian Savage
Does the Income Level of a Neighborhood Affect Transit Demand Responsiveness?
Rahaf Husein and Hanna Maoh
Journey to Work by Public Transit: Recent Evidence From the Four Largest Urban Centres in Canada
Md Sami Hasnine, TianYang Lin, Adam Weiss and Khandker Nurul Habib
Evaluating Impacts of TDM Policies Through Before-After Travel Survey: Application of Data Fusion for Discrete Choice Modelling
Ahmadreza Faghih-Imani and Naveen Eluru
A latent Segmentation Multinomial Logit Approach to Examine Bicycle Sharing System Users’ Destination Preferences
Trevor Hanson and Denis Caissie
Enabling and Measuring Success Among New Brunswick Volunteer Driver Programs in an Era of Demographic Change: Towards a Common Data Collection
Jeremy Mattson
Estimating Demand for Rural Intercity Bus Services
Utpal Dutta, Sawan Dutta
Identification of BRT – Advantaged Age-Group and Income Level Group by Examining Various BRT Cities
TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS, PRICING, FINANCE & EVALUATION
Vivek Sakhrani
Flexible Design Strategies for Enhancing Life Cycle Value: An Airport P3 Case Study
Cvet Georgiev
Impacts of Public Infrastructure on Productivity in Ontario
Paul Smetanin and Fawaz Yusuf
An Agent-Based Approach to Assessing the Economic Impact of Infrastructure Investment
Sina Motamedi
The Effect of Changes in Fuel Prices on the Use of Road Transportation in Ontario
André de Palma, Robin Lindsey and Guillaume Monchambert
Optimal Transit Pricing With Crowding and Traffic Congestion: A Dynamic Equilibrium Analysis
SAFETY
Lawrence McKeown and Anthony Caouette
Canada’s Shifting Sands: Oil Production and Distribution, 2005-2014
Trevor Hanson and Brendan McPhee
Community Data Needs on Dangerous Goods Movement by Rail: Perspectives of Select New Brunswick Emergency Planning Officials
Peibo Zhao and Chris Lee
Evaluation of Rear-End Collision Risk in Car-Heavy Vehicle Mixed Traffic Flow on Freeways Using Surrogate Safety Measures
Matin Foomani, Ciprian Alecsandru and Patrick Lauziere
Investigating Safety Impact of Backlit Pedestrian Crossing Sign Using Driver Behavior Analysis
Nicola Christie and Amelia Regan
A Safety Perception Indicator for Vulnerable Road Users in Urban Environments (ASPIRE)
ITS, TRAFFIC OPERATIONS AND CONGESTION
Garland Chow and Geetansh Kakkar - The Ron Rice Award for the Best Conference Paper
Simulating Roadside Safety Inspection Benefits Enabled by Alternative V2I Prescreening Technologies
Bern Grush and John Niles
How Cities Can Use Autonomous Vehicles to Increase Transit Ridership And Reduce Household Vehicle Ownership?
Umair Durrani, Chris Lee and Peibo Zhao
Understanding the Differences in Lane Change Maneuvers of Cars and Heavy Vehicles on Freeways
Mohammad Noaeen, Amir Abbas Rassafi, Behrouz Homayoun Far
Exploring the Residual Queue Length Equation in the Shock Wave Model
Md Jahedul Alam and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib
The ‘Big Lift’ Project of Macdonald Bridge Re-Decking, Halifax, Canada: A Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model
Tao Ma, Zhou Zhou and Baher Abdulhai
Time Series Based Hourly Traffic Flow Prediction on the GTA Freeways Using TSTVEC Model
Shakil Khan, Hanna Maoh and William Anderson
Simulating the Impacts of RFID Lanes at the Canada-US Border: An Application to the Windsor-Detroit Corridor
Ahmed Ramadan and Matthew Roorda
Impacts of Illegal On-Street Parking on Toronto’s CBD Congestion
Abdussalam Heba and Gabriel J. Assaf
Bayesian Linear Regression Performance Model for the Libyan National Road Network without an Initial Database on its Condition based on Expert's Knowledge
Vivek Sakhrani and Tufayel Chowdhury
Clogged Arteries: An Empirical Approach for Identifying and Addressing Localized Highway Congestion Bottlenecks
Justin Tyndall
Commuter Mobility and Economic Performance in US Cities
AIR, MARINE, RAIL AND INTERMODAL
Olaf Milbredt, Florian Rudolph, Erik Grunewald
Passenger-centric Intermodal Traffic Management involving Airports and Railways
Trever Bova, Gwen Cromwell and Lawrence McKeown
Come Fly with Me: Seasonal and Temporal Patterns in Air Travel
Barry E. Prentice and Robert Knotts
Sustainable Transportation: Airships versus Jet Airplanes
Jean Patenaude
Recent Public Policy Initiatives In Respect Of Railway Services
Georgiana Madar, Sagal Searag and Lawrence McKeown
Measuring Commodity Flows in Canada: A Carrier-Based Approach
Richard Dow Stewart, Hiroko Tada
Japan Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Intermodal Truck/Rail Container Operations: Applicability to U.S. Operations
Halia Valladares Montemayor and Kelly Moorhead
Opportunities and Challenges of Developing the Northern Shipping Passages
Mary R. Brooks
Do we need to Assess Service Delivery at Canadian Ports?
Lawrence McKeown, Georgiana Madar and Sagal Searag
Full Steam Ahead: Performance Measures of Canada’s Rail Industry
Malcolm Cairns
Improved Financial Performance of CP and CN over the Past Twenty Years: Factors Contributing to this Improvement
Ryan Gallagher and François E.J. Tougas
Rail Level of Service Decisions and Shipper Service Requirements
Sundar Narayan
Solar-Powered Vactrain: A Preliminary Analysis
LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
M. Ali Ülkü
Keeping Trucking In-House: a Dynamic Multi-Item Shipment Consolidation Model for a Manufacturer-Distributor
Toka S. Mostafa and Matthew J. Roorda
Modelling Freight Outsourcing Decisions
Aya Hagag and Hanna Maoh
Microsimulating the Spatial Distribution of Commercial Vehicles by the Location of their Owned Establishments
Sofiane Laribi and Emmanuel Guy
Canadian Coastal Shipping and CETA: Some Lessons From Four Market Deregulation Cases
Scott Bacon, Vincent Dubé and Lawrence McKeown
Advanced Technology Adoption and Use in Canada’s Transportation Sector
Kevin Gingerich, Hanna Maoh and William Anderson
Expansion of A GPS Truck Trip Sample to Remove Bias and Obtain Representative Flows for Ontario
Sirui Zhu and Matthew Roorda
A Method of Data Integration for GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data
Matthew Whelen, Ata Khan, Louis-Paul Tardif and David Ramsey
Resilience Measures for Reducing the Impact of Nature-Induced Disruptions in Transportation Supply Chains
Iman Niroomand, Amir Khataie and Matin Foomani
Application of Vehicle Routing Optimization in Improving the Flow of Mail to a Processing Plant
Rupert Allen, Matthew Whelen and Ata Khan
Building Resilience to Counter the Impact of International Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Chris Bachmann
Analyzing the Transportation Impacts of Free Trade Agreements
Paul Larson and Matt Adelman
A Survey of Awareness and Importance of Inland Port Features
AGRICULTURE, BIOFUELS, AND RURAL ISSUES
Steve Pratte
Government Hopper Cars and the Canadian Grain Handling and Transportation System
Paul D. Earl and Barry E. Prentice
Western Grain Exceptionalism: Transportation Policy Change Since 1968
Alexander Gregory
A Short Term Outlook Model for Canadian Grain Transportation Requirements