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PAST EVENTS
ITE / OTC Joint Active Transportation Workshop, November 24, 2011 – Richmond Hill
Photo: Participants enjoying learning about active transportation during ITE / OTC workshop.
Sessions included presentations by Steve Kemp from York Region who
opened with "New Dimensions in Road Safety", followed by Sean Wheldrake
of the City of Toronto's Cycling Unit, who gave an overview of "BIXI
Toronto and Other Public Bike-Sharing Programs". The workshop continued
after a break with Briana Illingworth from Metrolinx who discussed
"Addressing the First & Last Mile at Major Transit Stations". The final
morning session was presented by Nathan Westendorp and dealt with Simcoe
County's Active Transportation Strategy. The afternoon session opened
with a joint presentation by Janet Lo and Sheyda Saneinejad from the
"City of Toronto on Designing for Pedestrians". Daryl Bender continued
the discussion with a look at the City of Hamilton's "Active
Transportation Safety Initiatives". Closing the day was Jacquelyn
Hayward Gulati from Mississauga who spoke about the "Implementation of
the City's Cycling Master Plan".
Thanks again to the speakers and the attendees who made the workshop a
success. After another well-received joint OTC-ITE Toronto event, we
look forward to putting together a new workshop in the fall of 2012.
Christmas Luncheon, December 2, 2011 – Toronto Cricket Curling and Skating Club
This year had On-line Registration Option for the first time.
Approximately 50% of attendees registered online with our new
on-line payment tool! This new payment option will be available
for ITE Toronto events in the future and we encourage you to use this
option to help reduce registration time at the event.
Our speaker this year was Harvey Lowe from the City of Toronto - Social
Development Finance & Administration Division, Social Policy Analysis &
Research Section. Harvey gave us an overview of the new Wellbeing
Toronto website,
http://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/. Wellbeing Toronto is a new
web-based measurement and visualization tool that helps evaluate
community wellbeing across the city's 140 neighbourhoods. Harvey
provided a real-time demonstration of how the new site works and the
type of data that can be accessed for FREE!
A big thank you goes to AECOM who provided two tickets to a Toronto
Maple Leafs game for the charity draw. The draw, which was won by
William Newmarch of BA Group, raised $240 for scholarships awarded by
CITE. The funds raised were matched by ITE Toronto Section for a
total contribution of $480!
At the end of the luncheon CITE district director Russell Brownlee and
CITE President Jeanette Montufar gave everyone a highly energetic update
on ITE activities at the international and national levels. Jeanette
also gave a preview of the upcoming 2012 CITE conference in Winnipeg
including testing the crowd with some of the trivia questions being
asked as part of the event marketing campaign.
Election for 2012 ITE Toronto Section Activities Coordinator
The 2011 Project of the Year Award
ITE Toronto section congratulates GENIVAR on winning the first Project
of the Year award. Make sure you look for information on this year's
award competition when it comes out in a few months!
Highway Safety Manual Full Day Workshop
October 4th, 2011
Holiday Inn, Markham
On October 4th, the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) Subcommittee of the ITE Transportation Safety Council (TSC) piloted an HSM workshop attended by 28 members from ITE sections in Toronto, Hamilton, Southwest Ontario and the National Capital Region. This pilot follows a series of HSM training at previous ITE conferences, and was a great success.
Presentations included an
introduction to the HSM, including fundamentals and terms, crash
modification factors (CMFs), predictive methods, human factors, an
overview safety management process, along with a series of case studies.
A special thanks to Russell Brownlee, Jeff Shaw, Brian Malone and Geni
Bahar for their participation in this special workshop.
TTC Transit Control Centre Tour
September 19, 2011
1138 Bathurst Street, Toronto
On
September 19th, the ITE Toronto Section was welcomed by TTC staff for a
tour of their Transit Control Centre. Approximately 15 section Members
and Non-Members were provided a behind the scenes look at how the
control centre operates. From above the operations floor, the tour
provided a view of operators, workstations, video walls, and much more.
In addition, our hosts presented an in-depth understanding of TTC
transit operations and the many challenges faced by TTC planning,
deployment and operations teams. A special thank-you to our tour guides
for allowing us to view the control centre and for answering all of the
group's questions!
Full Day Transportation Boot Camp & Evening
Social
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Ontario Bar Association (OBA) & The Bier Market, Toronto
On
Thursday June 23rd the Toronto Section hosted a ‘Transportation Boot
Camp’ at the Ontario Bar Association offices in downtown Toronto. The
Boot Camp provided attendees with an overview of six key practice areas
of transportation engineering. The intent was to provide a window for
people within the industry into other facets of transportation
engineering – topics that that they have not yet learned about, or don’t
experience as part of their day to day activities. A very special thank
you to our diverse group of speakers who donated their time to come and
speak to our group. The speakers and topics included:
•
Accident Reconstruction/Safety – Russell Brownlee, Giffin Koerth
•
Transportation Modelling – Loy Cheah, York Region
•
The Planning Process in Ontario - Mike Bissett, Bousfields Inc.
•
Transportation Impact Assessment and Parking – Andre Filippetti, City of
Toronto
•
Transit Planning & Operations – Tim Lawson, TTC
•
Municipal Road Projects – James Garland, Durham Region
The event was attended by approximately 20 people from both the public
and private sector backgrounds who were eager to learn about the
different facets of transportation engineering. The group was able to
listen to the speakers and engage them in a discussion on their various
topics which led to a very informative session!
After the Boot Camp, some of the speakers and the majority of the Boot
Camp participants joined members of the ITE Toronto Section executive
for a follow up discussion over cocktails at an evening social at the
Bier Market on the Esplanade in Toronto. The social was a very fun and
refreshing way to exchange the ideas learned earlier in the day!!
If you are interested in viewing the presentation material from the Boot
Camp, please click on the above links for each of the presentations.
2011 CITE Conference and Annual General Meeting Halifax
May 29 to June 1, 2011
The ITE Toronto Section President, Rahul Mehra, was at the event on
behalf of the ITE Toronto Section. Rahul was part of the CITE Board of
Directors and participated in CITE Executive meetings. In addition, your
2011 Vice-President (Mark), Secretary (Nixon) and Student Chapter
Liaison (Matthew) attended the conference on behalf of the Toronto
Section Executives.
Matthew moderated the SimCap roundtable discussion during the conference
and received a lot of great suggestions and feedback for the first
Canadian SimCap User Group.
Ontario Emme Users Group Workshop
Ontario Science Center - May 16, 2011
April 29, 2011
After lunch our ITE District Director, Russell Brownlee, also gave a
brief presentation letting everyone know what is going on with ITE at
the international level.
ITE Toronto Section would like to thank Matt Crossley of GM and all the
professionals who attended the Spring Luncheon in the new location for
making it a big success!
Freight Movement Breakfast
Seminar at Region of Peel
March 29, 2011
• Murray McLeod, Former Manager of Transportation Planning, Region of
Peel
• Hart Solomon, Manager of Traffic Engineering, City of Hamilton
• Julia Salvini, Senior Planning Officer, Metrolinx
• James Perttula, Ministry of Transportation (MTO)
Approximately 35 people were welcomed with some trucking tunes (courtesy
of Mr. McLeod) and a free breakfast prior to the panel discussion. The
ITE Toronto Section would like to extend thanks to the Region of Peel,
all panellists as well as the originally planned moderator Mr. Justin
Terry, Transport Canada, who was unable to attend.
ITE Toronto
Student Presentation Competition
Monday, March 28, 2011, Mohawk College
The 2011 competition winner in the graduate category was David Duong
from the University of Waterloo for his presentation on the calibration
of Vissim model parameters using Pareto Archived Dynamically Dimensioned
Searches. The winner in the undergraduate category was Dan Pimental from
Mohawk College for his presentation on the East Avenue Road Diet Study
in Kitchener Ontario.
We would also like to congratulate the other participants Ryan Khan from
Ryerson, Samantha Vidger from UofT, Md Moniruzzaman from McMaster, and
Wai Yeung from Ryerson on giving great presentations!
Thanks to ITE Hamilton Section for organizing this year’s competition
and to CITE for providing funding for the prize money given to the
students. In each category first place received $350, second place
received $150, and third place received $100. The 2011 winners will also
be entered into a national draw for the chance to attend the annual CITE
Conference in Halifax!
We would also like to thank CITE President Gene Chartier who attended
the event and helped in the judging for the competition. Gene also spoke
to participants about getting involved in ITE and the upcoming CITE
National Conference in Halifax.
Murray McLobbie’s Toronto Pub Crawl and Sightseeing Tour
Thursday, March 10, 2011
ITE
Toronto Section was thrilled to host a pub crawl and social event for
Murray McLobbie, the 2011 CITE Conference’s mascot! Murray is visiting
Toronto on his way to Halifax and ITE Toronto wanted to take some time
to show him around town and have him meet some of our members. Murray
was treated with a trip to the Hockey Hall of Fame before meeting up
with a bunch of ITE’ers at a local pub where we all got a chance to
socialize with Murray for a couple hours.
After leaving the first pub the group showed Murray Union Station, where
Murray got to see GO Trains, and Canada’s first subway line! From there
it was onto Air Canada Centre where Murray tried to sneak into a Leafs
game that was going on. Unfortunately security didn’t appreciate his
trying to avoid paying those ridiculous Leaf ticket prices!
After smooth talking his way out of the situation Murray and the ITE’ers
took a walk around the Rogers Centre, CN Tower, and the Roundhouse where
Murray got to see an actual steam locomotive at the Toronto Railway
Heritage Centre! We wrapped up the evening at another pub where we said
our goodbyes to Murray and wished him well on his travels!
Successful Breakfast Seminar at YRT/Viva Transit Operations Centre
There
was standing room only at our first ITE Toronto Section event of 2011,
where almost 50 ITE members gathered to learn more about transit
operations in York Region. The breakfast seminar was held at the York
Region Transit (YRT/Viva) Operations Centre at 50 High Tech Road,
Richmond Hill on February 11. Mr. Rajeev Roy, Manager of Transit
Management Systems in the Traffic/ITS Branch of the Transportation
Services led the group into a brief background of transit operations in
the Region and the new technologies currently being implemented in York
Region. The presentation was followed by a technical tour of the
YRT/Viva transit operations centre.
The ITE Toronto Section would like to extend thanks to Mr. Rajeev Roy
and York Region for hosting this successful event.
Recap of Annual General Meeting and Christmas Luncheon, Toronto Cricket Curling and Skating Club, Friday, December 3, 2010
This year our speaker was Sue Flack of MRC McLean Hazel, which is
located in Edinborough, Scotland. Sue gave us an overview of her work
with Siemens in developing a 'complete mobility' index for various
cities across the world. This is a relationship derived through a
comparison of transportation infrastructure spending to GDP per capita.
Sue also gave us an insight into her recent efforts to develop a
mobility index score for 6 cities in Canada.
A big thank you to Delcan who provided two tickets to a Toronto Maple
Leafs game for the charity draw. The draw, which was won by Tom Woodhall
of BA Group, raised $115 for scholarships awarded by CITE.
The funds raised were matched by ITE Toronto Section for a total
contribution of $230!
At
the end of the luncheon CITE district director Russell Brownlee and CITE
President Gene Chartier gave everyone a quick update on ITE activities
at the international and national levels. Gene also gave a preview of
the upcoming 2011 CITE conference in Halifax including entertaining the
crowd with stories and pictures of his travels with Murray McLobby, the
official mascot of the 2011 Halifax Conference.
During the AGM component of the luncheon two new representatives were
elected to the Toronto Executive. Hossein Zarei from AECOM will become
the Membership Coordinator and Sean Nix of the Region of Peel will
become Activities Coordinator for 2011. CITE President Gene Chartier
presided over the official swearing in ceremony at the end of the
luncheon of your 2011 Executive.
Thanks to all members for making this year's annual luncheon another
great success!
Recap of the ITE Toronto Section / OTC Joint Traffic Software Packages Workshop held on Tuesday, November 23, 2010, Richmond Hill
David
Argue from HDR | iTRANS presented an overview of the traffic software
options. This was followed by the Macroscopic software session. Loy
Cheah from York Region presented on EMME 2/3 and Geoffrey Keyworth from
Waterloo Region presented on TransCAD. The Deterministic session opened
with Paul Sargeant from BA Group discussing CCG and InterCalc followed
by Pierre Vandall from the City of Toronto discussing Synchro software.
Dave Richardson from MMM Group joined a roundtable discussion that
followed.
Thank you to all our presenters who provided a very informative session
on benefits and disadvantages of various software packages and when they
are applicable to use.
Recap of Durham Region Traffic Operations Center Visit
Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 101 Consumers Drive, Whitby
The tour started and ended at Richmond Street and York Street, at the
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel and travelled along the
attached route.
The tour costs were covered by the section, but admission donations of
$200 were collected for the Dr. Michel Van Aerde Memorial Transportation
Scholarship.
Click here to
view pictures taken of the tour.
A joint Toronto, Hamilton and Southwest Section Spring Luncheon/Seminar was held on April 21, 2010, at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel on Airport Road in Mississauga on the topic of Transportation Sustainability. The event was also an opportunity for ITE members to personally meet the ITE International Vice President candidates: Troy Peoples, Ray Davis, and Rock Miller. The seminar provided insight into the existing and future TDM measures being implemented at York University, the planning and rationale used in determining the Long Term Transit Strategy in Durham Region, and the bold plans for redevelopment in Uptown Waterloo. On behalf of the Toronto Section, we would like to express our appreciation to Nicole Arsenault of York University, Phil Meagher of Durham Region, and Rob Trotter of the City of Waterloo for presenting.
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