Author: Sina Abolhoseini

Dr. Mehran attended the Automated Road Transportation Symposium in San Diego, California from July 29 to August 1, 2024, representing UMTIG and the University of Manitoba.

Tara Saeidi attended and presented her paper “Estimating Transit Passenger Alighting Counts by Optimizing Symmetry through a Double DQN Clustering Framework” at Transit Data 2024: The 9th International Workshop and Symposium on Research and Applications on the Use of Passive Data from Public Transport, which took place from July 1-4, 2024 in London, UK, at UCL and Transport for London!

Homa Motavallian Naeini, Ph.D. Candidate was part of the organizing committee for the 2024 CARSP Conference which took place June 16-19, 2024, in Ottawa, Canada.  The theme of this year’s conference was “Safe Mobility: Achieving Vision Zero in Urban and Rural Environments”  

On December 18, 2023, Julian Carneiro successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis entitled “Applying Signal Processing Techniques to Characterize Rail Corrugation, Noise, and Vibration”. Dr. Ian Jeffrey and Dr. Jonathan Regehr co-supervised Julian’s research. A special thanks to Dr. Sherif Sherif and Dr. Babak Mehran for serving on the Examining Committee. Julian’s research was generously supported by the National Research Council of Canada and Advanced Rail Management (Canada).

Congratulations, Julian! 

Read more about Julian research here!

Dr. Regehr was one of 22 co-Principal Investigators for a major multidisciplinary proposal, entitled Reimagining Arctic and Central Canada Accessibility through Hudson Bay, submitted to the New Frontiers in Research Fund – Transformation stream. Having been invited to submit a full proposal based on a successful Letter of Intent, Dr. Regehr led a team of 10 civil engineering co-applicants—including 9 from the University of Manitoba—tasked with assessing the feasibility of resilient land-based (i.e., rail) connectivity to the Port of Churchill. Dr. Regehr was the primary civil engineering contributor to the proposal. In this role, he participated in group ideation sessions, coordinated tasks within the civil engineering team (including those related to transportation, climate change, hydrology, ice engineering, hydraulics, and structural engineering), developed research plans and budgets, and ensured cohesion with other disciplines (especially the planned collaborations with researchers from CEOS and the Transport Institute, and industry partners representing the Town of Churchill and the Arctic Gateway Group). Unfortunately, we learned in December that the proposal was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, UMTIG sees many opportunities for future research collaborations because of this effort.

In February 2024, the agreement for the Manitoba Highway Traffic Information System (MHTIS), a partnership between Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure (MTI) and the Urban Mobility and Transportation Informatics Group (UMTIG) at the University of Manitoba, was renewed.

MHTIS is planned, designed, implemented, and operated by graduate students and associates of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Manitoba, working with Dr. Jonathan Regehr, P. Eng. and Dr. Babak Mehran, P.Eng. Raw data concerning traffic on Manitoba highways is provided by Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure. The data is processed, analyzed, summarized and disseminated by MHTIS in accordance with established procedures. This partnership leverages the strengths and expertise of both institutions to provide valuable insights and data on traffic patterns across Manitoba’s highways.

More information can be found at the following:  About Manitoba Highway Traffic Information System (MHTIS) | Transportation and Infrastructure | Province of Manitoba

Congratulations Sushreeta Mishra on the very successful defense of Doctoral’s thesis entitled “Optimization of semi-flexible transit operation in low-demand conditions”.