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Upcoming Events Traffic Bowl Trivia Night Date: May 21, 2014 Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Location: Harvest Noon Café (Graduate Student Union Building, 2nd Floor) 16 Bancroft Avenue, University of Toronto St. George Campus, Toronto

Are you interested in supporting the University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter (UT-ITE) efforts this year and meeting some students while networking with some of your colleagues? Then you should read this notice! ITE Toronto Section and UT-ITE are joining forces to host a fun ‘Traffic Bowl’ Trivia Night on Wednesday May 21st. The Traffic Bowl Social event will be a fun evening of asking and answering traffic trivia questions with the members of UT-ITE’s Traffic Bowl Team to help them prepare for the actual competition that will be held at the Joint CITE/OTC conference in Waterloo.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Upcoming Events

Traffic Bowl Trivia Night, University of Toronto St. George Campus, Toronto | May 21, 2014

Analytical Transportation Planning 5-day Workshop | May 26-30, 2014, Ryerson University, Toronto

CITE/OTC Conference in Waterloo Region | June 1-4, 2014

Past Events

University of Toronto ITE Student-Industry Mixer | March 26, 2014

Breakfast session – Sustainable initiatives across the GTA: sponsored by the ITE sustainability task force | April 8, 2014

ITE Toronto’s SimCAP User Group: Current Issues in Capacity Analysis | April 24, 2014

ITE Toronto Section Spring Luncheon: Hurontario-Main LRT Project – City of Mississauga: Successes and Challenges | May 2, 2014

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Ryerson University’s ITE -- Intensive Transportation Engineering –- produces ITS Intelligent Transportation Students

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Photo: Participants at 2013 Traffic Bowl, Vaughan, May 2013

We invite any professional member or student who is interested in learning about the Traffic Bowl to come out for a few hours and socialize with us. Student participants will be from University of Toronto, Ryerson University, and Mohawk Collage, plus our professional members – anybody who’s interested in learning about the Traffic Bowl and networking in a social setting doing something fun! The event will be held in a casual setting (i.e. a pub) on the University of Toronto St. George campus and will be a great way for our members to see what the Traffic Bowl is all about. As an extra way to entice our members to come out and meet the students, ITE Toronto Section will be providing some snacks during the event to keep our participants stomach’s full as they enjoy themselves.

For more information on the Traffic Bowl please visit CITE’s website under ‘Traffic Bowl’. If you are interested in attending this fun event please contact your ITE Toronto Section Activities Coordinator, Amy Jiang, at (416) 961-7110 ext. 166 or via email at [email protected]. If possible please let us know by the morning of Tuesday May 20th, 2014 so that we can anticipate how many to expect and make necessary arrangements. We hope to see lots of people come out to support our local Traffic Bowl Teams! Analytical Transportation Planning 5-day Workshop Date: May 26-30, 2014 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. every day Location: Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto

Similar to previous years, Dr. Ali Mekky will be hosting a 5‐day Analytical Transportation Planning Workshop about transportation modelling techniques and Emme 4 that will be held in Toronto, at Ryerson University. The Workshop's main objective is to enable the participants to structure and calibrate mathematical models, implement them in Emme 4 and use the Emme software for various transportation planning applications. No previous knowledge of modelling or Emme is required. Please see the attached brochure for additional information.

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If you have any question regarding the above, please call Mr. Mekky directly at (905) 889-7092 or email him at [email protected].

CITE/OTC Conference (June 1-4) in Waterloo Region and CITE Traffic Bowl Date: June 1-4, 2014 Time: All day Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Waterloo

The Southwestern Ontario Section of ITE and the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) looks forward to welcoming you to the Region of Waterloo in 2014 for the CITE/OTC Conference. The theme for the Conference and Annual General Meeting will be "Transportationfest – A Celebration of Innovation". The conference will be held on June 1st-4th, 2014 at the newly renovated and branded Crowne Plaza Hotel (formerly the Delta Kitchener - Waterloo) located in the heart of downtown Kitchener.

For more information, please visit: http://www.cite7.org/WaterlooRegion2014/index.php

Past Events

University of Toronto ITE Student-Industry Mixer Wednesday, March 26, 2014, Hart House @ 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto

Attended by more than 100 students, University of Toronto Institute of Transportation Engineers (UT‐ITE) Student Chapter hosted its third "Student‐Industry Mixer", in coordination with the ITE Toronto Section.

Photo: Participants at 2014 University of Toronto ITE Student-Industry Mixer Civil Engineering, Geography and Planning students from the University

of Toronto and Ryerson University engaged in discussions with


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transportation professionals from the private, public and non-for-profit sectors based in the Greater Toronto Area.

Photo: Participants at 2014 University of Toronto ITE Student-Industry Mixer

This event received eight sponsoring companies from the private sector: Parsons Brinckerhoff, Arup, BA Group, Delcan, IBI Group, LEA Consulting, MMM Group, and URS. Metrolinx, the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO), City of Toronto, City of Mississauga, and the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) participated from the public and non‐for‐profit sectors.

Breakfast session – Sustainable initiatives across the GTA: sponsored by the ITE sustainability task force Tuesday, April 8, 2014, WSP (former GENIVAR), Markham

Sponsored by ITE’s Sustainability Task Force, the ITE Toronto Section’s second breakfast session of 2014 involved a great panel discussion on sustainable initiatives across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Attended by approximately 30 participants the session focused on sustainability and innovations in our region.

Photo: The speakers (left to right): Joanna Kervin, Brian Titherington, Ersoy Gulecoglu, and Jim Gough (moderator)

The speakers included: • Ersoy Gulecoglu, Metrolinx: Embarking on a journey towards sustainability • Joanna Kervin, TTC: Integrated Station Design: Focal points for sustainable communities

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• Brian Titherington, York Region: Maintenance implications of transportation sustainability

Photo: Participants at April 2014 breakfast session Special thanks go out to the presenters and Jim Gough of ITE Sustainability Task Force, who was moderator of the event. A big special thanks goes to WSP Canada Inc for generously hosting this breakfast session at their Markham office boardroom.

ITE Toronto’s SimCAP User Group: Current Issues in Capacity Analysis Thursday, April 24, 2014, City Hall, Toronto

ITE Toronto Section held our 3rd Toronto SimCap (Simulation & Capacity Analysis) User Group meeting on April 24, 2014 at Toronto City Hall. This was our first in the Downtown Toronto area, and it attracted a diverse audience with many different interests. We had a great turnout with over 25 attendees from various consultant firms, municipalities, and academic institutions.

Photo: Participants at ITE Toronto’s SimCAP User Group, April 2014, Toronto This free workshop discussed issues related to the Highway Capacity Manual 2010 (HCM 2010) and Synchro’s ICU results. We had a great

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roundtable open discussion on a sample problem provided by one of our members. We also discussed Synchro 8 constraints, the use of different analysis techniques with the current capacity software, and, the potential for use of other software packages in the future. Thank you very much to those attended and provided lots of great feedback and comment for future consideration. The Toronto SimCap User Group will have a roundtable discussion session in the upcoming Joint OTC-CITE Conference in Waterloo on Wednesday, June 4, 2014—Session 8B at 8:30am. Come join us for a discussion on Traffic Simulation Software with the other two presenters in the same session. We look forward to a great conference! For more information about the SimCap Toronto User Group, please email Matthew Davis at [email protected] or Nixon Chan at [email protected].

2014 ITE Toronto Section Spring Luncheon: Hurontario-Main Light Rail Transit (LRT) Project – City of Mississauga: Successes and Challenges Friday, May 2, 2014, Le Jardin Conference and Event Centre, Woodbridge

This year’s ITE Toronto Section Luncheon was held on Friday, May 2, 2014 at the Le Jardin Conference and Event Centre in Woodbridge, with the key speaker’s notes focusing on Light Rail Transit in Mississauga. The City of Mississauga is transforming into a vibrant, safe and connected global city where people and businesses are choosing to locate. Building on Mississauga’s multi-modal transportation master plan, Andy Harvey, Director, Engineering and Construction at the City of Mississauga, presented the City’s future game changer: the Hurontario-Main Street Light Rail Transit (HMLRT) Project.

Photo: Andy Harvey presenting at 2014 ITE Toronto Section Spring Luncheon

Over 40 section members attended the Spring Luncheon to hear how the HMLRT corridor will connect the Cities of Mississauga and Brampton in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) of Ontario, Canada. The HMLRT will be instrumental in addressing the increasing traffic demands of 905 to 905 commuting. The City has chosen to plan the 24 km LRT route beyond the boundaries of a transit plan and chosen instead to develop the HMLRT as the catalyst to achieve transit oriented development and complete streets.



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Photo: Over 40 section members attended the Spring Luncheon

ITE members found the topic of technology, such as Smart LRT and advances in traffic management and how it will help transform the LRT system to be the mode of choice for residents and employees traveling on the Hurontario-Main Street corridor engaging. The ITE Toronto Section Executive would like to thank Andy Harvey for helping make the Spring Luncheon a success. For more information, please visit the ITE Toronto Section website to download a copy of Andy’s presentation.

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Ryerson’s ITE - Intensive Transportation Engineering – produces ITS - Intelligent Transportation Students For the past 3 years, students in the fourth year of Ryerson’s Civil Engineering Bachelor’s program can elect to enter a Transportation stream whereby they undertake four Transportation Engineering specialty courses to supplement the 3rd year course in Introduction to Transportation Engineering. The 15 to 20 students who make this choice each year are providing Transportation Engineering employers with a very rich talent pool of prospective employees who can be very productive in a short period of time. The specialty courses are in: Highway Design; Transportation Planning; Traffic Operations and Management; and Pavement Design and Management. These courses introduce the students to state of the art software and procedures such as: SYNCHRO; IHSDM; HCS; RSAP; INTERCALC; TransCAD, SPSS; WinPas; WESLEA; The Highway Capacity Manual; The Highway Safety Manual; The Canadian Capacity Guide for Signalized Intersections; MTO and TAC Geometric Design Guides; and AASHTO’s Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design procedure. In addition to conventional coursework, these students undertake a unique full-year capstone group project that is conducted in collaboration with such notable industrial clients as MTO, HDR (and iTRANS formerly), and CIMA+. Each group works closely with the client and meets bi-weekly with the course coordinator.

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Faculty members serve as technical advisors. In the fall semester, the groups define the problem, identify alternative solutions, and evaluate them to select the best solution. In the winter semester, they perform the detailed design of the selected solution. Each group conducts the project in a similar manner to that in practice, including preparation of a company profile, progress report, preliminary report, and a final report. The group runs meetings, which are chaired in rotation by the members, and prepares agendas and minutes. At the end of each semester, the groups make oral presentations to clients and faculty members. Capstone groups have placed highly in national and regional competitions and have had several conference presentations. Both students and clients have highly appreciated the capstone experience. To quote one client: “I want to thank you for this experience. I will be sharing my experience with our senior staff at iTRANS and recommend that we remain involved in the Capstone Program next year. Congratulations on the success of the program.” Joseph Arcaro, Vice-President, iTRANS. For further information on this program and on Ryerson’s ITE Student Chapter, contact Professors Joseph Chow ([email protected]); Bhagwant Persaud ([email protected]); Said Easa ([email protected]); or Medhat Shehata ([email protected]).

ITE Contact Information If you or one of your colleagues are not receiving the monthly ITE Journal, the quarterly CITE Transportation Talk, periodic web communication correspondence from CITE, and/or the ITE Toronto Section newsletters, then the contact information we have may not be up to date in our respective databases. ITE International, CITE and the ITE Toronto Section maintain separate membership databases. Every effort is made to keep the three databases consistent; however, there are instances where changes in membership have not been instituted across the databases.

For ITE Journal, Invoicing and other ITE international correspondence, Transportation Talk, and the Web Communications Centre, your current contact information can be viewed and changed at www.ite.org on the right hand side of the home page, either under “login/logout” or by logging into ITE Community. It provides information on what your login and password are based on your ITE membership number and name. For ITE Toronto Section Newsletters, your current contact information can be checked with our Communications Coordinator Farhad Shahla at [email protected]. The ITE Toronto Section distributes correspondence solely by e-mail. If you are receiving the Toronto Section newsletters and your e-mail contact information is correct, confirmation of mailing address information is not required.





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Do You …

… have any interesting transportation-related articles or photos that you would like to see in our newsletter? Send them electronically to our Communications Coordinator, Farhad Shahla at [email protected]. Have any questions for the ITE Toronto Section? Contact our President, Mehemed Delibasic, at [email protected] or Vice-President, Matthew Davis, at [email protected]. Want to learn about Job Posting opportunities offered by the ITE Toronto Section and CITE? Contact our Communications Coordinator, Farhad Shahla, at [email protected].





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Your ITE Toronto Section 2014 Executive

President

Mehemed Delibasic WSP Canada Inc.

Tel: (905) 475-8727 ext. 18329 [email protected]

Vice-President Matthew Davis City of Toronto

Tel: (416) 392-0070 [email protected]

Secretary Angela Gibson York Region


Treasurer Hossein Zarei AECOM Canada Ltd.

Tel: (905) 747-7511 [email protected]

Student Chapter Liaison

Sean Nix Mohawk College


Communications Coordinator

Farhad Shahla City of Mississauga


Activities Coordinator

Amy Jiang BA Consulting Group


Past President Nixon Chan MMM Group Ltd.










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