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

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.