54th Annual Conference – 2019
CTRF 54th Annual Conference – 2019
Conference Proceedings
Change, Disruption and Innovation in Canadian Transportation: Navigating the New Normal
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Papers and presentations* are organized by topics listed below.
*Presentations are only available for those authors who have provided permission to CTRF to have their presentation posted to the CTRF website.
1. Electric Vehicles
Determinants of PHEV Purchase Intentions in a Canadian City
Paul D. Larson
Towards Sustainable Regional Planning: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Expansion Scenario
Mahmoud Salari, Roxana J. Javid and Ramina Jahanbakhsh Javid
Understanding New Vehicle Dynamics: Developing Range Standards for Electric Bicycles
Alexander Bigazzi
Identifying the Factors Affecting the Preference of College Students Towards Electric Motorbikes
Tzu-Ying Chen and Rong-Chang Jou
2. Public and Urban Transit Performance
Transit Service Evaluation: A Time-Frequency-based Stop Accessibility Approach
Gamal Eldeeb, Ahmed Osman Idris and Moataz Mohamed
What Constitutes Network Robustness? Analysis of the Canadian Bus Transit System
Hatem Abdelaty, Moataz Mohamed, Mohamed Ezzeldin Wael and El-Dakhakhni
Public Transit Service Reliability Assessment Using GPS Data
Seungho Yang, Afnan Ahmad, Peter Park and Gunho Sohn
Canada's Public Transit Infrastructure: A Review
Aya Hagag and Lawrence McKeown
3. Traffic Analysis and Safety
A research guide to using efficiency of technological innovations in automobiles for establishing unbiased policies for improvement of minimum safety standards for driver-operated motor vehicles
Adekunle Mofolasayo
Evaluation of how driver's sight lines impact available stopping distance for conflicting through and left turning vehicles at signalized ii intersections
Adekunle Mofolasayo
Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram Based Perimeter Control Considering Dynamic User Equilibrium
Qiangqiang Guo Xegang (Jeff) Ban and Steven Parks
Real-time Safety Performance Functions for Signalized Intersections
Mohamed Essa and Tarek Sayed
4. Location of Industry and Transportation Activity
Unknown to Known: Predicting Truck GPS Commodity using Machine Learning
Mausam Duggal, Bryce Sharman, Rick Donnelly, Matthew Roorda, Sundar Damodaran and Shan Sureshan
Big Data Analysis to Explore the Clustering of Truck Trips Patterns Across Canada
Ayat Hussein and Hanna Maoh
Canola crushing: location of a footloose industry
Barry E. Prentice
5. Autonomous Vehicles
A Multi-Objective Optimization of Autonomous Drones’ Solar Energy Charging Stations Utilizing BIPV Urban Upgrade
Mohamed ElSayed and Moataz Mohamed
Latency and Reliability-aware Joint Optimization for Cooperative Vehicular Computing with Cooperative Communication
Xu Han, Daxin Tian, Xuting Duan, Zhengguo Sheng, He Liu, Yinsheng Gong and Victor C.M. Leung
Who Is Ready For Autonomous Vehicles? – Analysis of Consumer Acceptance of Self-Driving Cars In Different European Regions
Christina Edye and Wolfgang H. Schulz
6. Cycling Mobility, Safety and Data - I
Trip Identification for Smartphone-based Cycling GPS Data
Elmira Berjisian and Alexander Bigazzi
Cycling to Work: Is Geography Destiny?
Justin Tyndall
Why Individuals Choose Dockless Bicycle-sharing Services? Assessing the Effects of Built Environment and Land Use Attributes
Muntahith Mehadil Orvin and Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi
7. Cross Border Transportation
Ontario-US trade in goods and freight services: Trends, key challenges/issues and policy considerations
Andrew Tam
Asymmetric Effects of Exchange Rate Changes on Cross-Border Trade: Evidence from Canada-US Bilateral Freight Flows by Transport Mode
Junwook Chi
Modelling Truck Movement across the Canada-US border: A VISSIM Dynamic Traffic Assignment Application
Sidra Anis and Hanna Maoh
Analysis of the Arizona-Central Mexico International Trade and Transportation Corridor at the Supply Chain Level
Juan Carlos Villa and Isabel Victoria-Jaramillo
8. Airport Management and Governance
Strategic Cooperation between German Airports and Their Airlines
Sebastian Weber
Analysis of Airfares in an Era of Significant Airline Ancillary Charges
Jody Kositsky and Mike Tretheway
Canada’s Airports: The Economic Basis for a Not-For-Profit Governance Structure
William G. Morrison
Demand Analysis for Air Travels In Nigeria: An Expository Study
Obioma R. Nwaogbe, Adebayo Monday, Oluwole S. Matthew, Victor Omoke and Ibeawuchi Nze
9. Cycling Mobility, Safety and Data - II
Investigating the Impact of Bike Network Infrastructure Features on Cyclist Safety Using Network Theory Indicators
Mohamed Kamel and Tarek Sayed
How Do Perceived Safety and Experienced Incidents Influence Route Choice For Cyclists?
Gurdiljot Gill, Alexander Bigazzi and Filippos Gkekas
Unconstrained Cyclist Trajectory Simulation for Agent-Based Models
Hossameldin Mohammed, Alexander Bigazzi and Tarek Sayed
10. Applying Integrated Urban Models to Measure Health and Sustainability Impacts
Simulating the Future Impacts of Urban Transit System Improvements: Application to London, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia
Terence Dimatulac, Hanna Maoh, Tor Oiamo and Markey Johnson
Implementation of the SMARTPLANS Integrated Urban Model for Halifax, Nova Scotia and London, Ontario
Hanna Maoh, Terence Dimatulac, Tor Oiamo and Markey Johnson
Developing a sustainability indicator weighting scheme for Integrated Urban Modelling and Health Outcomes in SMARTPLANS
Tor H. Oiamo, Lauren White, Hanna Maoh and Markey Johnson
Extending the SMARTPLANS Integrated Urban Modeling Framework to Evaluate the Impacts of Air Quality on Health Outcomes
Hanna Maoh, Terence Dimatulac, Tor Oiamo, Markey Johnson and Dave Stieb
11. Trucking Research Methods
Review of Existing Technologies (Vehicle Fuels and Devices), Applications, Benefits and Limitations
Andrew Tam
Building Freight Shipments from GPS Data – Feasibility Studies
Serge Godbout, Herbert Nkwimi Tchahou and Nathalie Hamel
A Transportation Taxonomy -- Part 2
Bradley Hull and Charles Watts
12. Transportation Infrastructure Investment and Operation - I
Financial Analysis of the Improvement of Drainage Structures on Road Network to Relief Flooding in Frequently Flooded Areas in Southern Thailand
Pruethipong Xinghatiraj and Attasit Sawatpanich
Zinc Coatings for Sustainable Transportation infrastructure
Martin Gagne, Frank E. Goodwin and Bernardo Duran
Zinc Coated Rebar for Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure
Martin Gagne, Frank E. Goodwin, and Bernardo Duran
Non Traffic Volume-Based Collision-Prediction Regression Model for Intersections Safety
Matin Foomani, Ciprian Alecsandru and Anjali Awasthi
13. The Evolving Passenger Directed Transportation Sector: Taxis and TNCs
Mining Web Data to Help Cities Understand the Impacts of Ride Sourcing Companies
Amir Hassanpour, Alexander Bigazzi and Don MacKenzie
The Evolution, Usage and the Trip Chain Patterns of Taxis & Ridesourcing Services -- Evidence From 2001, 2009 & 2017 US NHTS Survey
Xiatian Wu and Don MacKenzie
Regulation and Competition in the Taxi Industry in Vancouver
Joseph Monteiro and Barry E. Prentice
More or Less Curb? Testing Strategies to Mitigate the Impact of Ride Sourcing On Traffic
Anne Goodchild, Don MacKenzie, Andisheh Ranjbari, Jose Machado and Giacomo Dalla Chiara
14. Green and Sustainable Transportation
Electric Mobility and the Carbon Tax: The Feasibility of Canadian GHG Mitigation Policies
Anastasia Soukhov and Moataz Mohamed
Investigating the Effects of Automated Vehicle Driving Operations on Road Emissions and Traffic Performance
Christos Stogios, Marianne Hatzopoulou and Matthew Roorda
Predictive Cordon Pricing to Reduce Air Pollution
Shaghayegh Vosough and Hossain Poorzahedy
Decarbonisation of Transportation: Insights into Vehicle Autonomy, Electrification and Sharing Implications for British Columbia, Canada
Orhan Atabay, Curran Crawford and Ned Djilali
15. Modeling Forecasting and Data Analysis
Data Supply for Arnold and Beyond
James Meyer
Developing a Comprehensive Database of Alternative Fuel Station Locations across Canada and the United States of America
Johanna Levene, Stephen Lommele, Robert Eger, Wendy Dafoe
Assessing the Representativeness of Survey Respondents for Micro-Level Network Resilience Modeling
Georgiana Madar and Hanna Maoh
A Prospectus for Improved Long-Distance Travel Demand Models
Eric J. Miller
The Ron Rice Award for the Best Conference Paper
16. Urban Freight
Impact of E-commerce Logistics on Neighbourhoods and Communities in Peel Region, Ontario
Deepa Mishra, Glareh Amirjamshidi, Elkafi Hassini and Matthew Roorda
Rail service design for mixed passenger and freight transport
Zhujun Li, Amer Shalaby, Matthew J. Roorda and Baohua Mao
Including all Users: Measuring Commercial Vehicle Envelopes on Urban Streets
Anne Goodchild, Ed McCormack, Manali Sheth and David Hurwitz
17. Canadian Gateway Cities: Four Reflections on Transportation Infrastructure, Global Value Chains and Urban Governance
Montreal: Value Chains, Economic Development and Urban Democracy
Dorval Brunelle
Innovation Corridors and the Golden Horseshoe: Transportation Challenges and the Emergence of a Shared Regional Vision
Jean Michel Montsion
Vancouver: Stabilizing the Gateway Infrastructure Coalition
Peter Hall
Towards a Systemic Approach to Global Value Chains and Democratic Governance in Halifax
Claudia De Fuentes
18. Railway Economics
Comparing Two Competing Models to Measure Annual Productivity Growth Rates in the Canadian Railway Industry
Hakan Andic
Operating Ratio as a Measure of Railway Operating Efficiency
Ryan Gallagher, François E.J. Tougas and Lucia Stuhldreier
Observations on Railway Costing in Canada
Mike Tretheway, Robert Andriulaitis and Jody Kositsky
Impacts of High-speed Rail on Airlines and Airport traffic: A Survey of Recent Research
Anming Zhang, Yulai Wan and Hangjun Yang
19. Challenge and Opportunities for Rural and Far North Transportation
The Northern Corridor Concept: A Connector Road from Northern Saskatchewan (La Loche, SK) to the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (Fort McMurray, AB)
Chris G. Moser
Hudson Bay railway and the Port of Churchill – A Balancing Act
Paul D. Larson, Yufeng Lin and Adolf K. Y. Ng
Regulating Maritime Occupational Health and Safety in Canadian Arctic Waters
Desai Shan, Aldo Chircop and Barbara Neis
Learning From Rural Innovation: What Can Volunteer Driver Programs Teach Us About Planning for Autonomous Vehicles?
David Copp and Trevor Hanson
20. Pricing and Economic Policy
High Occupancy Toll Lanes: Hot or Not
Angelo Pilla and Moataz Mohamed
Assessing Transportation Equity: From Concept to Evaluation
Adrian Lightstone, KarinBrundell-Freij, Sally Rudd and Lee Failing
Innovative Methods Towards Building and Evaluating Congestion Charging Scenarios: The Case of Metro Vancouver
Fearghal King, Adrian Lightstone, Daniel Firth and Reid Keller
Building the Case for Performance-Based Pricing in Transportation - the Rationale for User Cost Pricing on Roads and Transit in Metro Vancouver
Peter Lipscombe and Fearghal King
21. Change and Challenge in the Maritime and Port Sector
Governance and Engagement in Ocean Oil Spill Response Planning: International Comparisons with Planning in the Vancouver Region
Trevor Heaver
Legal Status of an Onshore Remote Controller of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships ("MASS") under the Canadian Maritime Law and IMO International Conventions
Jinho Yoo and Desai Shan
Assessing the Role of Port Efficiency as a Determinant of Maritime Transport Costs
Qiao Lei and Chris Bachmann
Port adaptation to climate change and capacity investments under Uncertainty
Wenyi Xia and Robin Lindsey
22. Transport Policy and Regulation
A review of Canadian Transportation Developments in 2018
Joseph Monteiro and Barry E. Prentice
Western Canadian Grain Transportation and the Maximum Revenue Entitlement: Surveying the 17-Year Journey towards Regulatory Modernizations
Steve Pratte
Mobility as a Service: Governance Strategies for Impending Disruptions
Alec Knowles, Blair Underhill, Ray Wong and Adrian Lightstone
23. Transportation Infrastructure Investment and Operation - II
Research on Transit Signal Priority Control Strategy Based On Real-Time Saturation Detection for a Single Intersection
Tong Zhang, Baohua Mao, Qi Xu, Min Wang, Sijia Zhang and Yanqiang Yang
Stochastic Forecasting Methods When Key Variables Are Politically Determined: Fuel Prices for Air Traffic and Ferry Forecasting
Christopher Greer
Estimating Airport Ground Transport Mode Choice Using Market Aggregate Data
Wenyi Xia, Jong Hae Choi, Kun Wang and Anming Zhang
Optimal Operations of an Automated Vehicle Parking Lot
Sina Bahrami and Matthew Roorda
Student Paper Competition Winners: 2018-2019
Active Transportation Infrastructure – Examining Safety Implications and Effect on Modal Split
Craig Davis
Autonomous Shipping and Seaworthiness: How Emerging Technologies Will Affect the Carriage of Goods by Sea
Ryan Bernard