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Bike Week 2016

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The DalTRAC team promoted the Thumbs Up! Share the Road Nova Scotia campaign throughout Bike Week 2016. From June 3-12, bike safety tips and videos were shared on social media, and community events were attended to distribute promotional materials and discuss safer road sharing with community members. We partnered with the Town of Pictou Parks and Recreation department for their Pictou County Bike Week and attended events in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Switch Open Street Sundays was held on June 5 in Dartmouth, with over 500 community members enjoying the open streets with activities for all ages. We also wrapped up the week attending the Halifax Cycling Coalition Bike Expo on Sunday June 12 at the Emera Oval.

MD Jahedul Alam and Sara Campbell promoting the Share the Road Nova Scotia campaign at Switch Dartmouth.

MD Jahedul Alam and Sara Campbell promoting the Share the Road Nova Scotia campaign at Switch Dartmouth

Community members enjoying the Switch Open Street Sundays event.

Community members enjoying the Switch Open Street Sundays event

Participants at the Halifax Cycling Coalition Bike Expo.

Participants at the Halifax Cycling Coalition Bike Expo

CTRF Conference

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The joint Annual Conference of Canadian Transportation Research Forum and US Transportation Research Forum was held in Toronto May 1-4, 2016. DalTRAC student MD Jahedul Alam presented his work titled The ‘Big Lift’ project of Macdonald Bridge re-decking, Halifax, Canada: A dynamic traffic assignment model. This model was used to evaluate impacts of the Macdonald bridge closure to surrounding link intersections and the overall network.

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MD Jahedul Alam and Dr. Ahsan Habib at the 2016 CTRF Conference

CITE Atlantic Provinces Section 2016 Spring Meeting

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Dalhousie Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) participated in the 2016 CITE Atlantic Provinces Section Spring Meeting on Thursday May 19 in Dartmouth. DalTRAC students presented two projects and held a poster session highlighting some of the other projects being conducted over the last year. These projects ranged from emissions modeling, traffic simulation and accessibility analysis.

Dr. Ahsan Habib presenting Traffic Simulation Modeling to Assess Vulnerabilities of the Redecking of the Macdonald Suspension Bridge

Dr. Ahsan Habib presenting Traffic Simulation Modeling to Assess Vulnerabilities of the Redecking of the Macdonald Suspension Bridge

Nazmul Khan presenting his poster entitled Life Course-Oriented Approach of Modeling Vehicle Ownership State and Vehicle Type Choice Using Panel Data

Nazmul Khan presenting his poster entitled Life Course-Oriented Approach of Modeling Vehicle Ownership State and Vehicle Type Choice Using Panel Data

DalTRAC team at CITE Spring Meeting (Left to Right): Sara Campbell, Shamsad Irin, Nazmul Khan, Dr. Ahsan Habib, Mahbub Rahman, Jahed Alam and Abroon Qazi

DalTRAC team at CITE Spring Meeting (Left to Right): Sara Campbell, Shamsad Irin, Nazmul Khan, Dr. Ahsan Habib, Mahbub Rahman, MD Jahedul Alam and Abroon Qazi

DalTRAC Seminar

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Haomiao Cheng, a visiting student from Tongii University in Shanghai, China, will make a presentation on her work entitled The Effect of Wealth Gap on Pedestrian Network and Urban Form in Shanghai.

The presentation will take place on Thursday May 26,2016 at 11am in room B105. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Social Responses to the ‘Big Lift’ Panel Discussion

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As part of the Dalhousie School of Public Administration’s Speakers’ Series, the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance and the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University are jointly hosting the Social Responses to the ‘Big Lift’ Panel Discussion. The panel discussion will take place in the Paul O’Regan Hall at the Halifax Central Library on Wednesday, June 1 between 11:00am-12:30pm. Speakers will include Calvin Burns, Business School, University of Strathclyde; Anatoliy Gruzd, Ted Rogers School of Management and the Social Media Lab, Ryerson University; Ahsan Habib, School of Planning and Dalhousie Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC), Dalhousie University; and Kevin Quigley, MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance, Dalhousie University.

For more information visit: http://www.dal.ca/dept/maceachen-institute/bridge_redecking_panel.html

DalTRAC Seminar

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Abroon Qazi, a visiting student from the Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow, UK, will make a presentation on his work entitled Bayesian Belief Networks and its Application to Supply Chain Risk Management.

The presentation will take place on Tuesday May 10, 2016 at 11:30am in room B105. Everyone is welcome to attend!

 

MPS Thesis Defence

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DalTRAC would like to congratulate Caroline King Robertson, Masters of Planning Studies graduate student, on successfully completing her thesis presentation entitled: Travel Behaviour and Transportation Challenges of Households with Pre-School Aged Children: A Child Care Centre Based Study on Monday March 28.

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#SharetheRoadNS Open House Highlights

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On Tuesday March 8, Dalhousie Transportation Collaboratory hosted the #SharetheRoadNS Open House at Dalhousie University. This open house was to highlight the success and experiences of the many stakeholders to Share the Road initiative, and discuss what’s working, what’s missing and what’s next for share the road education and awareness across Nova Scotia. The event began with Dr. Ahsan Habib highlighting the lessons learned from the campaign, and partners Dave MacIsaac (Halifax Regional Municipality) and Gord Tate (Municipality of the District of Chester) discussing their experiences with the Share the Road initiative. Following the presentations, open discussion commenced through dialogue with a knowledge lead, drawn from the transportation and road safety community. Six topic areas were discussed where safety issues can occur between different road users. From these discussions there were three key points that kept presenting themselves, including the need to advocate for transit as this will encourage walking and biking, the need to educate all road users on the rules of the road and importance of sharing the road, and the need to further promote the Share the Road campaign and build additional partnerships.

DalTRAC would like to thank everyone who attended and contributed to the success of the event. The full #SharetheRoadNS Open House workshop report will be released to http://www.dal.ca/sites/share-the-road/get-involved.html in the upcoming weeks.

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#SharetheRoadNS Open House

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Join the Dalhousie Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) for an afternoon of presentations and discussion regarding road safety and sharing in Nova Scotia.

Join the conversation!

Date: Tuesday March 8, 2016
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Venue: Dalhousie University
              Exhibition Room, Ralph M. Medjuck Building (H building)
              5410 Spring Garden Road,
              Halifax, NS
For more information and to RSVP, please contact daltrac@dal.ca

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DalTRAC in the 95th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board (TRB)

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This year, seven DalTRAC students presented nine research papers and represented Dalhousie University at the 95th Annual meeting of Transportation Research Board (TRB) in Washington, D.C on January 10-14, 2016. Our session information can be found below:

  • Investigation of the Use of Smartphone Application for Trip Planning and Travel Outcome – Shaila Jamal, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-4892, Session 204 – Smartphones, Realtime Information, and Travel Behaviour – Monday, 8:00am-9:45am
  • Life-oriented Modeling of Commute Mode Loyalty and Transition Behavior – Mahmudur Fatmi, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-1152, Session 402 – Life Cycle Effects of Travel Behaviour – Monday, 3:45pm-5:30pm
  • A Longitudinal Vehicle Transaction Model: Assessing the Lead and Lagged Effects of Longer-term Changes and Life-cycle Events – Mahmudur Fatmi, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-4581, Session 402 – Life Cycle Effects of Travel Behavior – Monday, 3:45pm-5:30pm
  • Microsimulation-Based Emission Modeling for a Major Infrastructure Renewal Plan: Assessment of Network Attributes and Land Use Effects on Vehicular Emissions – Shamsad Irin, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-1140, Session 438 – Current Issues in Transportation and Air Quality – Monday, 4:15pm-6:00pm
  • Characterization of Accessibility in Halifax, Canada: Developing a Composite Network-Distance-Based Accessibility Measure – Stephanie Salloum, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-4885, Session 712 – Transportation and Land Development – Tuesday, 4:15pm-6:00pm
  • Modeling Travel Tool Ownership of the Elderly Population: A Latent Segmentation-based Logit Model – Mahmudur Fatmi, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-0692, Session 782 – Vehicle Ownership and Usage – Wednesday, 8:30am-10:15am
  • Life Course-oriented Approach of Modelling Vehicle Ownership State and Vehicle Type Choice Using Panel Data – Nazmul Khan, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-2832, Session 782 – Vehicle Ownership and Usage – Wednesday, 8:30am-10:15am
  • Population Synthesis base Pseudo Panel Modeling of Out-of-Home Discretionary Activity Duration – Naznin Daisy, Mohammad Hesam Hafezi, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-0782, Session 783 – Time Use and Activity Patterns – Wednesday, 8:30am-10:15am
  • Two-Stage Panel Model of Residential Search and Location Choice Decisions – Mahmudur Fatmi, Subeh Chowdhury, and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib – Paper 16-1153, Session 785 – Travel Demand Models R US – Wednesday, 8:30am-10:15am

DalTRAC team at TRB Conference (Left to Right): Shamsad Irin, Mahmudur Fatmi, Nazmul Khan and Shaila Jamal

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