NRC AI4L Conference

UMTIG is attending NRC Artificial Intelligence for Logistics program – Conference in Ottawa, Ontario. The following abstracts were submitted to the conference for presentation. By clicking on each link, you can download the abstract:

  1. Design and deployment of an integrated, portable road‐weather and traffic information system (Link)
  2. Applying a hierarchical approach to develop a regional truck traffic volume model (Link)
  3. Options for enhancing network‐wide truck volume estimates in Manitoba (Link)
  4. An integrated modelling approach to estimate grain truck activity in the Canadian Prairie Region (Link)
  5. Estimation of origin‐destination trip exchange rate based on observed link flows: Implications for Manitoba’s road freight transport network (Link)
  6. Road freight transport network resilience to extreme weather events: Concepts and open challenges (Link)
  7. Evaluating network elements using random walk for resilient route planning (Link)
  8. Using GIS to harness the power of Twitter for resilience analysis of Alberta’s rural highways (Link)
  9. Using reliability models for crash frequency analysis on the Saskatchewan highway network (Link)
  10. Modelling the impacts of transportation hazards on truck-involved crash frequency on cold region rural highways (Link)

Congratulations to Musharraf Khan for successful defense of PhD thesis

Today, Musharraf Khan successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Ranking of Hazardous Materials Facility Siting through Routing Evaluation considering Transportation Preferences and Risk”. Well done Dr. Khan!

Thank you Dr. Uday Venkatadri Pani, Dr. Qingjin Peng, Dr. Jonathan Regehr, and Dr. Behzad Kordi for your help with Musharraf’s PhD thesis examination.