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Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2024

UMTIG was pleased to be represented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC which took place January 7–11, 2024 by Phani Kumar Patnala, Maryam Ghaffari Dolama, Michael Olfert, Navoda Rillagodage, Babak Mehran, and Jonathan Regehr.

Navoda Rillagodage presented a poster ‘A Binary Logit Model to Assess Safe Speed for Trucks in Adverse Road-Weather Conditions’ co-authored by Homa Motavallian Naeini.   Maryam Ghaffari Dolama was awarded the 2024 Art Worth Railway Engineering Conference Award, annually funded award at the University of Manitoba to provide travel support to students interested in pursuing a career in the railway industry to attend annual engineering conferences.   Maryam used this award to attend the TRB Annual Meeting where she presented a poster and represented UMTIG as a member of the Highway/Rail Grade Crossing Committee.

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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!

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Reimagining Arctic and Central Canada Accessibility through Hudson Bay

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.

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Manitoba Highway Traffic Information System (MHTIS)

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

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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).

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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.

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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.