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November, 2007 iTRANS is pleased to announce a staff member recently received LEED certification for buildings. As a milestone, this is an iTRANS first! LEED = Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. LEED Accredited Professionals (LEED APs) have demonstrated a thorough understanding of green building practices and principles and familiarity with LEED requirements, resources, and processes. This is an accreditation noticed by clients in Vancouver, especially in private development. LEED is moving towards transportation planning accreditation soon, with some test sites in Whistler and Victoria. |
November 2 - 4, 2007 About the Conference: Uniting some of the brilliant and future leaders in the engineering community and society from across Ontario, the PEO Student Conference is a forum sponsored by the PEO where ideas are shared and issues affecting students are discussed. The 3rd Annual Professional Engineers of Ontario Student Conference was hosted by University of Toronto on behalf of the Engineering Student Society Council of Ontario (ESSCO) and featured prominent members of industry, renowned engineering faculty, and delegates from many schools who share the common goal of aiding in the professionalism and success of Ontario students. The theme of the conference was "How Engineers improve the quality of life", and featured keynote speakers and industry professionals explaining the significance and role of engineering in improving the quality of life. The conference was opened to public for the first time this year. Speakers: Christopher Philp, P.Eng., Vice President, iTRANS Consulting Inc. Title: Transportation: It's positive impacts on society |
October 17, 2007 Geni Bahar, Vice President of iTRANS' Transportation Safety practice, was named the Transportation Person of the Year by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC). This prestigious prize awards recognition to "a person who has contributed to the improvement or advancement of the transportation industry as a whole or any one of its modes or segments", and was presented to Geni on October 17, 2007, during the Annual Banquet at TAC's Annual Conference held in Saskatoon. This award is greatly deserved, as Geni Bahar has dedicated her 27-year career to promoting traffic and road safety engineering. She has been a leader in advancing road safety in North America; working tirelessly to conduct safety research, to advance the state-of-the-art, educate and train professionals in the science of traffic safety, and coordinate multidisciplinary teams in a wide variety of safety projects. Ten years ago, Geni applied her hands-on approach to lead the largest undertaking by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation in the development and implementation of a road safety management system. Today "The Science of Highway Safety", has significantly advanced the practice of road safety throughout the Province and across North America. She has subsequently taught The Science of Highway Safety to transportation professionals across North America, and this course has evolved into one of the more popular courses being offered to the State Departments of Transport by the US National Highway Institute. She has demonstrated her commitment to "translating" the state-of-the-art in safety practice into state-of-the-practice in traffic and road safety engineering for practitioners. This is evidenced in the number of industry-known reference manuals, guides, and software that she has played a key role to develop, which include:
Geni has provided leadership through her education of practitioners, her involvement in professional committees, and her presentations at conferences. She has presented frequently to TAC, TRB, ITE, CARSP and AASHTO, and is actively involved in TAC, TRB, and ITE. Through these activities, she seeks to educate and help practitioners gain wide spread acceptance and incorporate road safety into transportation planning, traffic engineering and road design. Geni's hard work and dedication to the practice of traffic and road safety engineering throughout her career has helped develop iTRANS into one of the strongest teams in the industry providing Transportation Safety and the integration of safety into our many other Transportation Planning, Design and Traffic Engineering practices in our company. She has provided engineers and other professionals with the tools and the knowledge to incorporate safety as an integral part of transportation planning and road design. We congratulate Geni on her award as Transportation Person of the Year by TAC, in recognition of her efforts over the decades as a leader and advocate of safety.
Please read the article on Geni's award on page 13 of the ITE Transportation Talk
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| September 2007 Human Factors & Explicit Road Safety - November 21 & 22, 2007 iTRANS Consulting Inc. and Human Factors North Inc. are pleased to announce that they will be offering a two day workshop entitled “Human Factors and Explicit Road Safety". The course will be held on November 21 & 22. For further information please e-mail hfn@hfn.ca |
| August 2007 Guidelines for the Design and Application of Speed Humps: An ITE Proposed Recommended Practice iTRANS was retained by ITE to update the 1997 Recommended Practice for the Design and Application of Speed Humps. This report is now available through ITE's website. The proposed recommended practice provides state-of-the-practice guidelines for the design and application of speed humps, one of several geometric design techniques that may be used to control vehicular traffic speeds along a roadway. The experiences of various agencies currently implementing speed humps across North America are documented along with findings from published research work. Speed humps consist of raised pavement constructed or placed in, on, across, or partly across a roadway. For the purposes of this document, speed humps are defined as a roadway geometric design feature whose primary purpose is to reduce the speed of vehicles traveling along that roadway. There might be certain secondary purposes to speed hump installations, such as traffic diversion, but that is not their primary intended purpose. |
May 31, 2007 At the CEO 2007 Annual General Meeting and Awards Reception & Banquet, iTRANS Consulting was presented with the Award of Excellence for their Transportation Master Plan for the Town of Richmond Hill. This project was awarded for excellence due to its forward thinking and innovativeness in considering sustainability and environmental factors when planning for one of Canada's fastest growing communities. iTRANS helped the Town to implement a Master Plan that was presented to its community and received unanimous support from the citizens and Town Council. Poster for Richmond Hill TMP: Richmond Hill TMP - Project Poster.pdf For further details, see the attached document or contact us directly. CEO Award 2007 - Accolades Magazine Article.pdf For more about the Richmond Hill Transportation Master Plan please visit: http://www.richmondhill.ca/subpage.asp?pageid=photo_gallery_07_tmp_award |
May 14, 2007 Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting, is delighted to announce that Michael Trickey will be joining our Richmond Hill office as a Senior Project Manager. Michael will be a great asset to our safety practice in our continuing efforts to advance safety in the United States and Canada. Michael comes from the Ministry of Transportation (Ontario), where he worked in variety of positions including the Regional Manager of Engineering in North Bay, Head of Maintenance Contracts and Analysis, and Head of Asset Management. Prior to working with MTO, Michael worked with the Ministry of Transportation (British Columbia) as a Supervising Transportation Planning Engineer, where he advanced the concept of asset management and introduced long-term corridor investment planning. Some recent projects Michael worked on include strategic finance and business planning, asset management, engineering and design, modernizing highway maintenance, and performance-based contracting. |
April 23, 2007 iTRANS Consulting is proud to be ranked by Canadian Business magazine to be among the Top 50 Best Workplaces in Canada for 2007. In fact, iTRANS is ranked in the Top Ten (#9) in the country. This and related stories appear in the April 23rd issue of Canadian Business magazine, available on newsstands and at http://www.canadianbusiness.com. This list of "Best Workplaces in Canada" is compiled for Canadian Business magazine by Great Place to Work® Institute Canada. The competition process is based on two criteria: two-thirds of the total score comes from a 57-statement survey completed by a random selection of employees, along with their open-ended comments about their organization; the remaining one-third of the score comes from an in-depth review of the organization's culture, including an evaluation of HR policies and procedures. This offers a rigorous representation of the organization from an employee perspective, and an overall portrait of the workplace culture. Together, they provide crucial data relative to the five trust-building dimensions of a great place to work®: credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie. Plaque Top 10 Best Workplaces 2007.pdf
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April 16, 2007 Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting Inc., is delighted to announce that Keith Dustin has joined the iTRANS team as a Senior Project Manager. Keith comes to iTRANS from the Ministry of Transportation where he was a Senior Project Engineer. His project experience includes detail design, environmental assessments, value engineering, contract administration, and corridor investment plans. He also has previous consulting engineering experience with several engineering firms in the Ottawa area throughout his career. Some of the more notable projects Keith worked on include:
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April 5, 2007 Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting Inc., is delighted to announce that Wally Beck has been appointed our Vice-President with overall responsibility for our public transit practice. Wally has attained a high level of success managing public transit projects with great success, and drawn many accolades from clients. Wally has been with iTRANS since January 2003. He is another shining example of our staff advancing to our executive team, and how our culture fosters professional development. |
January 31, 2007 iTRANS is pleased to be named among the Top 20 Best Small and Medium Employers in Canada, as announced in the Globe and Mail . The survey, now in its third year, is published annually in the Globe and Mail. iTRANS has ranked in the Top 20 in Canada every year the survey has been conducted, and is very pleased to be ranked #6 in Canada. The award is given out by the study partners Queen's School of Business, Queen's Centre for Business Venturing and Hewitt Associates. "Our staff are very proud of our accomplishment, as it reflects the hard work and dedication of each person to make iTRANS a great place to work. We work very hard to maintain our culture of teamwork, while providing opportunities for personal and professional growth for each employee, ensuring we attract and retain the best people", says Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS. Becoming a Top Best Small and Medium Employer is a very detailed and competitive process. This national awards program recognizes top employers with between 50 and 399 employees. The program mirrors the renowned Best Employer in Canada list published in Report on Business Magazine. The rankings are primarily determined using the results from Employee Opinion Surveys. More information about the Best Small & Medium Employers in Canada is available online at http://business.queensu.ca/qcbv/sme. iTRANS recently celebrated 11 years as a Consulting Engineering firm specializing in transportation planning, transportation safety, transportation systems, transportation design, and public transit, serving clients across Canada, the United States and internationally, with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Cambridge, Toronto, and Ottawa. Another measure of success for iTRANS is its rapid growth, having doubled in numbers in less than two years. To be recognized among the Top 20 Best Small and Medium Employers in Canada for the third year in a row reaffirms the firm's commitment to make iTRANS a great place to work.
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January 25, 2007 On Thursday January 25, 2007 the United Way of York Region recognized iTRANS for the Employee Campaign Spirit Aware for its successful campaign. This award is in recognition of top campaigns that show progressive growth in participation and high per capita giving by organizing and running successful textbook campaigns that are both fun and educational. Through the incredible leadership and support from owners Tyrone and Hilda Gan this campaign continues to thrive. Each year employees are divided into teams and participate in various campaign challenges with a theme. This year's theme was "Back to the Future". See the full article in the Impact Newsletter attached. |
January 19, 2007 This is the inaugural year of this award presented by the York Region chapter of the Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario (HRPAO). Amanda was selected as this year's recipient for small to medium size businesses. Amanda will be presented with the award at the Richmond Hill Chamber of Commerce Annual Award's Dinner on March 7, 2007. It shows that the work that Amanda does as a Human Resources Professional is valued as much by her peers as it is by us at iTRANS. Congratulations Amanda! |
December, 2006 See attached Cambridge Office (PDF)
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June 2006 iTRANS has recently become a platinum donor to TAC with an annual scholarship donation of $10,000 for the next 5 years. iTRANS is proud to be the first Consulting firm to sponsor a scholarship at the Platinum level. The winner of the TAC Foundation iTRANS Scholarship for 2006 is Dalia Said, a PhD Student at Carleton University. With this Scholarship, iTRANS continues with its commitment to sponsorship of students in the field of transportation studies.
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June 2006 iTRANS has been awarded the ITE Update to Guidelines for the Design and Application of Speed Humps Project. The ITE Traffic Engineering Council (TENC) is leading the preparation of the updated Recommended Practice to reflect changes in the state-of-the-practice and to provide a broader comprehensive summary of key considerations for speed hump design and application. The TENC has formed a Technical Advisory Committee to assist in the development of the update, which will work closely with iTRANS throughout the project.
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June 2006 By Roy Green - Article published in York Region Business Times - Business of Month, June 2006
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June 2006 By Anne Marie Aikins - Article published in NOVAE RES URBIS, News of the City of Toronto - Friday, June 23, 2006 Currently, the intersection near the Kipling subway station is a no-man's land of wide arterial roads where cars whiz by local plazas and quiet residential streets. Running north-south Kipling Avenue interrupts the east-west connections along Bloor and Dundas streets, resulting in a confusing tangle of loops and overpasses and a big waste of good land.
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| June 2006 TTC Approves Commuter Parking Expansion City in Brief - published in NOVAE RES URBIS, News of the City Toronto - Friday, June 23, 2006 The Toronto Transit Commission approved $5.8 million in funding for an additional 635-commuter parking spaces, and a feasibility study for the consolidation of parking lots at the Wilson station. The expansion is to support the TTC's ridership growth strategy objective of increasing available parking by 2,600 spaces over 10 years. The new spaces are to be located at Kipling, Kennedy and Islington stations. A recent study conducted by iTRANS Consulting Inc. included the identification of existing and new stations where opportunities for expansion of surface parking existed.
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| April 2006 Donna Howes joins iTRANS Consulting Inc. Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting is happy to announce that Donna Howes will be joining our Senior Management team as a Vice President, responsible for the iTRANS practice in BC. Donna brings 20 years of experience in transportation planning, engineering, operations, and design. |
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| March 2006 Costs of Congestion Study released by Minister of Transport Toronto, 22 March 2006. The Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, the Hon. Lawrence Cannon, announced the findings of a key research study on urban congestion and its impacts. The study, directed by David Kriger of iTRANS, developed new methods to quantify congestion and estimate its costs in Canada's nine largest urban areas. Using data from the transportation models of each of the nine urban areas, the study found that recurrent congestion - that is, congestion caused by the daily build-up of traffic - costs between $2.3 billion and $3.7 billion annually. Over 90% of these costs are attributable to the driver's time lost due to delay, with 7% attributable to increased fuel consumed under congestion and another 3% to increased greenhouse gas emissions. The study looked at the Québec City, Montréal, Ottawa-Gatineau, Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver metropolitan areas which, together, are home to over half the country's population. The study developed new methods to quantify systematically congestion and its impacts, which urban authorities have started to apply in their planning, evaluation and cost-benefit analyses for new transportation infrastructure. Although it focused on road congestion, the study was careful to examine the impacts of congestion on transit as well. For more information, please contact David Kriger, Vice President of iTRANS, at dkriger@itransconsulting.com. See also the Transport Canada media release at http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/releases/nat/2006/06-h006e.htm |
| February 2006 Human Factors & Explicit Road Safety - March 27 & 28, 2006 iTRANS Consulting Inc. and Human Factors North Inc. are pleased to announce that they will be offering a two day workshop entitled "Human Factors and Explicit Road Safety". The course will be held at the Clarion Resort, Pinewood Park Inn, 201 Pinewood Park Drive, North Bay, Ontario on March 27 & 28. Download Course Brochure Download Fax Registration Form Download MS Word Registration Form For further information please e-mail hfn@hfn.ca |
| January 2006 We're growing again! iTRANS expands its Ottawa office iTRANS Consulting Inc. is excited to announce the opening of its newly expanded Ottawa office in February 2006, The office will provide a full range of traffic engineering and transportation planning services to all of iTRANS' public and private sector clients in the National Capital Region, eastern Ontario and western Québec, with the continued support of staff from our other offices. As a new corporate Vice President, Jim Houghton, P.Eng., will be moving from the Richmond Hill head office to manage the office in Ottawa. Jim is a traffic engineering specialist with 23 years experience in all aspects of traffic and transportation engineering in both the public and private sectors. In moving to Ottawa, Jim will be returning to the city where he started his engineering career with the former Region of Ottawa-Carleton. David Kriger P.Eng., MCIP, Vice President of iTRANS, will continue to be based in the Ottawa office, with overall responsibility for the company's practices in sustainable transportation planning, freight planning, travel demand modeling and surveys, and toll traffic and revenue forecasts and audits. For career opportunities in Ottawa, please send resumes to humanresources@itransconsulting.com . For other information, please email itrans@itransconsulting.com . |
| January 2006 Human Factors & Explicit Road Safety - January 30 & 31, 2006 Over 30 people attended the two day workshop "Human Factors and Explicit Road Safety" on January 30 & 31. In attendance were various municipal participants. The course was well accepted and feedback was excellent. |
| December 2005 Dave Banks joins iTRANS Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting Inc. in Richmond Hill, Ontario, is delighted to announce that Dave Banks has joined the iTRANS team as a Senior Consultant. With over 34 years of experience in the transportation industry, Dave is well known throughout the transportation industry and brings to iTRANS a broad range of knowledge in traffic engineering, traffic operations, transportation planning, cycling facility planning and design, and road safety. Dave will be joining Chris Philp, Vice President, Geni Bahar, Vice President, and Ray Bacquie, Vice President to enhance iTRANS as a leader in transportation engineering and road safety across Canada. |
| September 2005 Elizabeth (Liz) Szymanski joins iTRANS Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting Inc. is pleased to announce that Elizabeth (Liz) Szymanski has joined the iTRANS team as its newest Project Manager. During her 11 years of service for the pubic and private entities, Liz has amassed an in depth understanding of the issues faced by the transportation industry. Her expertise is supported by unique analytical and problem solving skills applied creatively to a variety of transportation projects. Liz will further reinforce our Transportation Planning and Sustainable Transportation teams and will work closely with Tyrone and David Kriger on transportation planning, multimodal demand forecasting, green house gasses (GHG) forecasting and goods movement projects. |
| September 2005 Dave Roberts appointed Vice President Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting is pleased to announce that Dave Roberts has been appointed Vice-President of iTRANS , responsible for leading and enhancing the firm's transit practice. |
| September 2005 iTRANS Toastmasters Club is Formed iTRANS has recently formed the iTRANS Toastmasters Club (#740550), the latest of the over 10,000 Toastmaster clubs worldwide. The iTRANS Toastmasters Club is a company initiative to help employees improve their public speaking, communications, and leadership skills. Today's transportation professionals need, not only technical skills, but communication and leadership skills in working with the public, other professionals, and peers. The development of the club is just one of the many professional development opportunities staff at iTRANS. |
| August 2005 TAC Announces today, that Transverse and Centreline Rumble Strip - Publications Released! Synthesis of Practices for the Implementation of Centreline Rumble Strips Centreline rumble strips (CRS) are applied along the centre of undivided roadways and generally used to prevent head-on collisions. The purpose of this publication was to review and synthesize current literature and practices on CRS's in North America and internationally and to recommend an appropriate update to TAC's Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads. The report: * Reviews current practices, including design elements and documented issues; * Outlines conclusions based on the literature, including recommendations for design elements and application guidelines; * Presents potential future research topics; and * Provides appendices containing design drawings from several jurisdictions and the provincial and state CRS policy documents reviewed. Best Practice Guidelines for the Design and Application of Transverse Rumble Strips Transverse rumble strips (TRS) are used to warn drivers of an imminent and unusual change in the driving environment that requires greater driver awareness, such as approaches to stop controlled intersections, roundabouts, work zones, etc. Roadway officials have installed TRS for many years but there are currently no Canadian guidelines available. TAC recognized the need for cohesive guidelines that could be applied on a national level and initiated the creation of this document as a solution. The report: * Describes the background knowledge about the use of TRS in North America and the United Kingdom; * Guides the user through a network level screening for the identification of candidate sites for the installation of TRS treatments; * Focuses on the selected site assessment process, design configurations, installation, maintenance, environmental impact and costs of permanent TRS installations; * Summarizes the key findings and provides conclusions; and * Provides appendices offering the survey questions and summary of results, findings from the literature review and design configurations from different agencies. Both rumble strip projects were conducted by iTRANS Consulting Inc. More information or to obtain a copy, visit http://www.tac- atc.ca/english/informationservices/tacnews/fall2005-6.HTM |
| June 2005 Dave Roberts joins iTRANS Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting Inc. in Richmond Hill, Ontario, is delighted to announce that Dave Roberts has joined the iTRANS team as a Senior Transit Consultant. With over 30 years of experience in the transit industry, Dave is well known throughout the transit industry and brings to iTRANS a broad range of knowledge in transit planning, transit service design and urban transportation policy. He will be joining Wally Beck, Senior Consultant of Public Transportation and David Kriger who leads iTRANS' Sustainable Transportation practice, to enhance iTRANS as a leader in transit consulting and innovation across Canada. In recent years, Dave has managed multi-faceted transit studies, service designs, functional facility designs and operational reviews across Canada and elsewhere. He was formerly Executive Director of the Ontario Urban Transit Association (OUTA) and worked at CUTA in the areas of transit policy research, advocacy and technical research for transit systems. Dave also managed the Transit Planning Department for the Greater Vancouver Regional District and other transit agencies in Vancouver, and is looking forward to opening up a Vancouver office of iTRANS in his native Vancouver in 2006. |
| March 2005 Tomasz Kroman joins iTRANS Tyrone Gan, P.Eng., President of iTRANS Consulting Inc. is pleased to announce that Tomasz Kroman, P.Eng., has joined the iTRANS team as its newest Vice President. With over 25 years of experience in transportation planning, traffic engineering and transportation design, Tomasz will be responsible for leading iTRANS in the development and overall management of our Transportation practice in Alberta. Tomasz will be based out of Calgary - iTRANS' newest office. He will be working with Tyrone, a former Manager with the City of Calgary Transportation Planning Department, to provide our Alberta clients with the high quality of service, and the Insight, Integrity and Innovation demonstrated by iTRANS on projects across Canada. Tomasz has been involved in the planning, design and construction of a wide variety of transportation projects throughout Alberta over the years. This includes planning and detail design of urban and rural highways; freeways and interchanges; and parking facilities. Projects have included Functional Planning Studies of Highway 11 through Rocky Mountain House, Highway 9 South of Irricana, Highway 2/Highway 7 Aldersyde Interchange, Cominco Interchange, Shaganappi Trail Extension, Crowchild Trail /Shaganappi Trail Interchange, Whitemud Freeway, Design Project including; Dalhousie Park and Ride Facility, 194 Avenue South/Highway 2 Intersection, Crowchild Trail/Shaganappi Trail Interchange, St Albert Trail, Road Needs Studies, and Traffic Impact Assessments |
| March 2005 Joseph Arcaro joins iTRANS Tyrone Gan, President of iTRANS Consulting Inc. is pleased to announce that Joseph Arcaro has joined the iTRANS team as its newest Vice President. With close to 20 years of consulting experience in transportation planning and design, Joseph will be strengthening and developing the highway planning and municipal road design. He will also join Ray Bacquie, Vice President in expanding our municipal road and highway Environmental Assessment Practice. Joseph has been involved in the planning, design and construction of a wide variety of transportation projects over the years. This includes planning and detail design of urban and rural highways; freeways and interchanges; and airport and parking facilities. Projects have included the Highway 35 Widening/Rehabilitation in Minden, Highway 7 improvements in Lindsay, Highway 400 NBL bridge rehabilitation at Highway 12 in Waubashene, and a number of Highway 407ETR projects, most recently the Markham By-pass interchange. |
| October 2004 Please visit our display at the 2004 IMSA Traffic Expo. The Expo will be held in Burlington on October 27, 2004 at The Holiday Inn, 3063 South Service Road. The Expo runs from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM We will be showcasing our traffic signal services and expertise including iTRECTM, a GPS based travel time package. You can download the demonstration version of iTRECTM by clicking on the following link: Download iTREC Demonstration Software |
| October 2004 iTRANS vice-president Geni Bahar was identified in the latest newsletter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Transportation Safety Council as playing a lead role in updating the Safety Action Plan of Washington-based ITE. Ms. Bahar serves on the executive committee of the TSC. She stresses in her newsletter update that the ITE International Board of Directors has identified safety as a "mega-issue" for ITE, and that ITE has asked the council to develop a white paper on the issues of safety. A draft framework for the white paper has been provided to ITE staff, and the goal is to complete the document for the International Board meeting in late 2004. |
| October 2004 iTRANS will be attending the 2004 APTA (American Public Transportation Association) meeting on Oct 10th through to the 13th in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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September 2004 Geni Bahar, Jim Houghton, and Maurice Masliah of iTRANS Consulting will be in Overland Park, Kansas October 19-20 to facilitate the Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan Peer Exchange Meeting. Over 40 States and 130 participants are scheduled to be in attendance in order share ideas, successes, and develop potential solutions to problems in developing comprehensive safety plans. The development of comprehensive plans has expanded beyond the pilot states [link to lifelines] implementing variants of the Integrated Safety Management Process, NCHRP Report 501, into a national effort in reduce the number of deaths and injuries on highways. |
July 2004 David Kriger presented a poster entitled "What Makes a Transportation Master Plan Sustainable?" at the Transportation Research Board's conference on Integrating Sustainable Transportation, Baltimore, MD, July 11-12, 2004. To obtain a copy, please visit our Papers page. |
July 2004 David Kriger also made a presentation entitled, "Moving Goods: Urban Challenges or Urban Solutions" at the Canadian Institute of Planners Annual Conference, Toronto, July 11-14, 2004. To obtain a copy, please visit our Papers page. |
February 2004 The Introduction to Road Safety Science course scheduled for March 2 - 4, 2004 has been postponed until the fall. When a date has been confirmed, it will be posted here, along with registration materials. For general information on course content, please feel free to download the brochure. This course is intended for transportation professionals including traffic engineers, highway designers and traffic technologists. Similar material has been offered in previous courses to MTO employees in 6 regions, to the Consulting Engineers of Ontario, and other Regional Municipalities in Southern Ontario. Evaluations have shown a high level of satisfaction with the course presentation. Download Course Brochure For further information please e-mail gbahar@itransconsulting.com or asmiley@hfn.ca |
January 2004 The ultimate purpose of CARSP is to help improve road safety by not only disseminating road safety information, but by promoting the field itself and thereby adding cohesiveness to Canada's road safety community. Over the next two years he will be working with the CARSP Board of Directors to elevate the profile of the organization through strategic partnerships, campaigns, our multi-disciplinary road safety conference, new research initiatives, and through the introduction of unique services for our members and the public at large. Prior to iTRANS, Paul managed road safety and loss prevention programs for two public auto insurance companies in the West - The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) and Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI). In his later years at ICBC he was responsible for managing the corporation's provincial speed management strategies (1998-2000), and at MPI between 2000 and 2003 he was responsible for managing MPI's road safety department and which included auto crime countermeasures. |
September 2003 iTRANS Consulting Inc. and Human Factors North Inc. are pleased to announce that they will be offering a two day workshop entitled "Human Factors and Explicit Road Safety". The course will be held in Vancouver BC on October 16th & 17th, 2003. Course Outline Registration Form For further information please e-mail gbahar@itransconsulting.com or asmiley@hfn.ca |
July 2003 Springdale Transportation Cap iTRANS had the opportunity to provide transportation advice and expert testimony on behalf of the City of Brampton and Region of Peel related to development controls in the Springdale community. After a 6-week hearing of the Ontario Municipal Board, the Board recently ruled in favour of the City of Brampton and Region of Peel in upholding development controls for the Springdale community. |
June 2003 Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference XIII "Establishing an Integrated Road Safety System in Ottawa" (PDF Format) |
June 2003 Senior Researcher Maurice Masliah will be discussing the Integrated Safety Management System (ISMSystem) at the 2003 Governors Highway Safety Association in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 27th. The ISMSystem research was led by iTRANS Consulting and will be proposed as part of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) Strategic Highway Safety Plan |
March 2003 Sustainable Transportation iTRANS is active on several exciting Sustainable Transportation initiatives, which aim to balance auto use with more environmentally-friendly alternatives, to aid Climate Change and improve air quality. They differ from traditional transportation plans, because they require different analytical techniques, partnerships and strategies to address a whole new set of questions (for example, how the public and private sectors can work together to achieve common goals, and how to achieve economic and environmental sustainability together). Led by David Kriger, Vice President, iTRANS' work in sustainable transportation ranges from policy planning to the assessment of emission-reduction and the quantification of their impacts. Recently, iTRANS was part of a team that developed a Sustainable Transportation Plan for Québec (Environment Canada, 2003), which identified over 40 actions and priorities. This was the first Province-wide sustainable transportation plan in Canada, covering all modes: urban and inter-urban, passenger and goods, public and private. |
Wally Beck joins iTRANS Wally Beck joins iTRANS as Senior Consultant, Public Transportation. With 27 years of experience in the public transportation industry, Wally brings in-depth and hands-on experience in all areas of public transit operations, planning, administration, and land use policy development with experience in Canada and overseas. His long-term tenure as the former Director of Kitchener Transit is complemented by several years as a consultant in the transit and information technology sectors. |
Elizabeth Szymanski joins iTRANS We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Szymanski has joined our transportation planning team. Elizabeth's experience with travel forecasting, long range planning, traffic engineering as well as her passion for sustainable transportation will complement our team of exceptional professionals. Elizabeth brings in over 8 years of experience gained through projects conducted for public agencies and the consulting industry. She will enhance our practice in travel demand and mobility management, demand forecasting, modeling and transportation planning services offered by iTRANS. |
December 2002 iTRANS is very happy to announce that David Argue, P.Eng., has just been certified by the PTOE iTRANS is very happy to announce that David Argue, P.Eng., PTOE has just been certified by the Professional Traffic Operations Certification Board (which is part of the Institute of Transportation Engineers) in Washington as the first Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) in iTRANS. As stated in the ITE website: Certification as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer is a powerful demonstration of knowledge, skill, and ability. In today's world where competition is a fact of life, certification as a PTOE is a mark of excellence. The PTOE certification provides assurance that the holder possesses a high level of competency in the areas of standards, recommended practices, and the policies and procedures necessary to operate effective and efficient traffic facilities. |
November 2002 iTRANS releases iTREC GPS Data Recorder and Analyst Software Packages. iTRANS has developed two software packages to assist road authorities, transit agencies and other transportation professionals to quickly and easily collect, analyze, and report travel time information. The software packages are called iTREC. The travel time required to traverse a route between any two points on a roadway, is a fundamental measure in transportation. iTREC integrates Global Positioning System (GPS) hardware with most any Microsoft Windows based PC laptop computer to record position and time data. Traditional travel time studies are labor intensive requiring both a vehicle driver and a passenger for data collection and recording. However, using the iTREC software with a GPS receiver for data collection has the following advantages:
The iTREC analysis software calculates speed, direction, delay, number of stops and other useful evaluation measures. iTREC can be used to quickly and efficiently evaluate the levels of service along roadways, compare travel times along different routes and generate the effectiveness for roadway changes such as road reconstruction, signal timing changes, ramp metering, traveler information systems, bus priority systems or the effects in overall growth of traffic. Integrated within iTREC is a Geographic Information System (GIS) for selecting, analyzing and displaying time travel information; third-party GIS software is not required. ITREC simplifies all stages of time travel studies through a user-friendly interface allowing anyone to quickly and easily compare "before and after" scenarios, and generate valuable reports in a graphical format. |
October 2002 iTRANS is pleased to announce that due to our growth and expansion, we are moving to a larger facility within our current office tower . As of November 1, 2002, iTRANS Consulting will be relocating from Suite 608 to Suite 300 at the existing address at 100 York Boulevard, Richmond Hill, ON L4B 1J8. All current telephone and fax numbers will remain the same, However; the prefix 5 will be added to the beginning of all extensions (Eg. 224 now becomes 5224). |
September 2002 David Kriger joins iTRANS iTRANS Consulting is delighted to announce that David Kriger has joined iTRANS Consulting as Vice President. With 20 years experience in consulting and government, David brings to iTRANS broad experience in transportation planning across Canada, as well as in the United States and overseas. Based in Ottawa, David will lead iTRANS in Sustainable Transportation studies, transportation planning research and education / training in Canada and around the world. In addition, David will enhance our practice in travel demand forecasting and modelling, transportation master plans, and toll highway traffic and revenue studies. |
Jim Houghton joins iTRANS iTRANS Consulting is delighted to announce that Jim Houghton, P. Eng. has joined iTRANS as a Senior Project Manager. Jim was formerly the Principal of Houghton Traffic Engineering (HTE), providing traffic engineering services to clients in the Toronto area. With over 19 years experience in the consulting industry and in the public sector, he will have an important role in expanding the traffic engineering and road safety services offered by iTRANS to clients. |
June 2002 Fundamentals of Highway Safety Improvement iTRANS in collaboration with Human Factors North and the Midwest Research Institute has been commissioned by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration to produce a course titled "Fundamentals of Highway Safety Improvement". The Fundamentals of Highway Safety Improvement course replaces and expands upon the 21-year old "Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)" and "Engineering Studies" courses. The new course include both an instructor's manual and a student's reference manual intended to provide guidance to State and local agencies for developing and implementing a highway safety improvement program which best suits their capabilities and needs. The four specific crash types covered by the engineering studies portion of the course are run-off-road, head-on, intersection, and pedestrian type crashes. The course and manuals will be beneficial to Federal, State, and local municipal highway engineers and other professionals involved in a highway safety improvement program. The pilot course will be delivered in Winter 2002/2003 by Geni Bahar and Dr. Alison Smiley. |
June 2002 2002 Access Management Conference in Austin Texas iTRANS Consulting has provided support to the Regional Municipality of Durham in corridor management by developing their Access Management Policy and Guidelines. The findings of the study were presented at the 2002 Access Management Conference in June which was held in Austin, Texas. Ray Bacquie co-authored the paper presented by Gene Chartier, Manager of Planning and Design at the Region of Durham. The presentation outlined the access management philosophy and safety context and highlighted the network safety screening tool developed for the Region by iTRANS. The presentation also identified the legislative authority in Ontario and how that is translated into the key elements of the guidelines. |
June 2002 Dr. Michel Van Aerde National Graduate Scholarship iTRANS recognized as one of the Founding Partners In August 1999, the Canadian transportation engineering profession lost one of its academic leaders. Michel Van Aerde died suddenly at the age of 39. As a researcher and teacher, he was recognized as an international authority in the field of transportation engineering. A scholarship in honour of his memory was established this year. The aim of this award is to encourage students to obtain Ph.D. degrees in transportation engineering. iTRANS being committed to transportation engineering, generously donated to the establishment of the fund. As a Founding Partner of the scholarship, iTRANS was recognized at this year's, Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE) Annual Conference held in May, 2002 in Ottawa. On behalf of his family, Michel's young son, Eric acknowledged the establishment of the scholarship and its Founding Partners. Tyrone Gan, the President of iTRANS accepted a plaque in recognition of iTRANS' contribution to the scholarship. iTRANS received the following letters from the University of Waterloo and from the family of Dr. Michel Van Aerde in recognition of their contribution to the scholarship fund. |
April 2002 An Introduction to Road Safety Science Training Course iTRANS Consulting Inc. and Human Factors North Inc. were pleased to announce that they offered a course entitled An Introduction to Road Safety Science in April with 35 people in attendance. This course was intended for transportation professionals including traffic engineers, highway designers and traffic technologists. Similar material has been offered in previous courses to MTO employees in 6 regions, to the Consulting Engineers of Ontario, and other Regional Municipalities in Southern Ontario. Evaluations have shown a high level of satisfaction with the course presentation. Next Course will be held on March 4-6, 2003. Location TBA. We will keep you up-to-date when information is available. |
April 2002 Congratulations to the coordinators of this year's ITS Canada AGM (March 25 and 26 in Toronto). It was a very successful conference with some interesting presentations and timely information. With the recent inauguration of the Transportation Systems Group at iTRANS, sponsorship of the ITS Canada AGM was a unique opportunity to announce the expansion of our services into the ITS industry. iTRANS acknowledges the efforts and initiatives of ITS Canada in defining the industry and providing a strong voice in the decisions that affect our business both domestically and internationally. However, the success of these initiatives relies on input from a wider range of municipal representation. Please get your municipality involved. For more information, please check the website at www.itscanada.ca |
April 2002 Attendance set a record for a first-ever OGRA course. Congratulations to Zoran Postic of York Region and Mike Parks from the City of Brampton for organizing such a great course! |
