Congratulations to Julian Carneiro on Successful Defense of Master’s Thesis

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. Moataz Mohamed’s invited lecture at UMTIG

Dr. Moataz Mohamed was invited to give UMTIG members a lecture about his research group’s research topics. Dr. Mohamed’s research focus is on sustainable transportation systems, specially public transportation. Additionally, his research delves into the systemic effects of the transit system on the utility grid and energy demand. You can find more about Dr. Mohamed’s work at his personal website (Link).

UMTIG at the INSTR2023

Dr. Mehran, Dr. Khan and Mr. Abolhoseini attended the 9th International Symposium on Transport Network Resilience, Hong Kong, to present their recent research on freight transportation network analysis including identification of critical nodes and economically critical links in the network. The abstracts can be found in the symposium program book.

This event was an international scientific symposium jointly hosted by the The Institute of Transport Studies and the The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hong Kong.

UMTIG at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)

UMTIG represented by Dr. Mehran, Dr. Khan and Mr. Abolhoseini was invited to Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) to present our recent research on freight transportation network analysis. We thank Professor Edward Chung and the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) group at the Department of Electrical Engineering for organizing this event.

Jonathan Regehr receives TAC Leadership Award at 2023 TAC Conference & Exhibition 

Dr. Regehr was honoured at the 2023 TAC Conference & Exhibition held in Ottawa Canada on September 24, 2023 for his continuous, effective leadership during 10 or more years of active participation on TAC councils and committees, and who have earned a reputation among other TAC volunteers for their dedication, collaboration, knowledge and integrity.

Dr. Jonathan Regehr, University of Manitoba

After joining TAC’s Road Safety Standing Committee in 2012, Jonathan volunteered to chair the new Road Safety Professional Subcommittee. In that role, he led development of a report that recommended a new Road Safety Professional (RSP) designation, and he was eventually appointed to the North American steering committee that guided the RSP certification to its 2018 launch. As part of the subcommittee’s work, he also led an assessment of road safety engineering education and a synthesis of road safety content in engineering textbooks.

In 2018, Jonathan joined the former Education and Human Resources Development Council (now Workforce Development Council) and became the inaugural Chair of its Education Committee in 2021. In that role, he has built the committee’s membership and guided its progress, encouraging the use of TAC publications for instruction and working toward greater student awareness of transportation.

Jonathan actively cultivates a culture of congeniality and collaboration in TAC councils and committees. He has encouraged many young professionals to get involved in TAC, and by doing so has contributed to the strength and future of the organization.

Announcing TAC’s Volunteer Recognition & Young Professional Award Winners | tac-atc.ca

Congratulations to Navoda Rillagodage for successful defense of PhD thesis

Congratulations Navoda Rillagodage on the very successful defence of your PhD thesis entitled “A framework for reliability-based weather-responsive speed management for rural highways located in extremely cold regions”.

Thank you Dr. Yasser Hassan, Dr. Wael Alhajyaseen, Dr. Jeannette Montufar, PhD, PEng, PTOE, RSP, Dr. Ahmed Ashraf, and Dr. Elham Salimi for your help with Navoda’s thesis and PhD defence.

Read more about Navoda’s PhD research:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457522002664?via%3Dihub

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03611981221111353

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256322