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Upcoming Events University of Toronto ITE Student-Industry Mixer Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Time: 5pm –7pm Location: Debates Room, Hart House @ 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto Cost: $20 for individual professionals, FREE for students/faculty The University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter will be hosting an evening social event with the goal of creating a networking environment to connect transportation students with industry professionals. The past two years have been quite successful with over a hundred students and professionals from over a dozen companies/agencies in attendance. Thanks go to this year’s sponsoring companies for making the event possible: Arup, BA Group, Delcan, IBI Group, Lea Consulting, MMM Group, Parsons Brinckerhoff and URS. Registration is required for individuals interested in attending,

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Upcoming 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

Analytical Transportation Planning 5-day Workshop | May 26-30

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

Past Events

Toronto's Downtown Transportation Operations Study and Congestion Management Plan | February 20, 2014

Road Safety for Rural Road Networks Workshop | March 5, 2014

6th Joint Student Presentation Competition and Job Fair |March 18, 2014

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with food & refreshments provided. For more information and to register, please visit http://www.ut-ite.ca/mixerRegistration.

Breakfast session – Sustainable initiatives across the GTA: sponsored by the ITE sustainability task force Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Time: 7:30am – 9:00am Location: WSP (former GENIVER) 600 Cochrane Drive, 5th Fl. – Boardroom 1, Markham, Ontario Cost: FREE for members | $5 for non-members (Beverages and snacks will be provided).

ITE Toronto Section’s second breakfast session of 2014 will focus on the topic of sustainability. ITE’s Sustainability Task Force is pleased to sponsor this exciting session, showcasing innovations in sustainability in our region. Over the past few years, sustainability has gone from being a broadly defined goal to an integral part of what transportation planners and engineers do, from planning and design through to operations and maintenance. Our speakers reflect that spectrum of activity. The speakers include:

Antoine Belaieff, Metrolinx, Embarking on a Journey Towards Sustainability

Joanna Kervin, TTC, Integrated Station Design: Focal Points for Sustainable Communities

Brian Titherington, York Region, Maintenance Implications of Transportation Sustainability

Please see the attachment brochure for more information. The event will be held FREE for ITE members. A nominal $5.00 charge will be applied for non-members to cover costs. To ensure we have sufficient space, we are asking members interested in attending

contact our Activities Coordinator, Amy Jiang, at [email protected]. Please confirm your attendance by Friday, April 4th, 2014.

For more information on the Sustainability Task Force, check it out on the ITE website (under the Transportation Planning Council) or contact Jim Gough at [email protected]. The Task Force conducts regular monthly conference calls, frequently featuring guest speakers on sustainability, as well as meetings at ITE and TRB conferences. The Task Force has a number of active projects, and more “friends of the Task Force” are always welcome.

ITE Toronto’s SimCAP User Group: Current Issues in Capacity Analysis Date: Thursday, April 24, 2014 Time: 4pm – 6pm Location: TBD Cost: FREE

ITE Toronto's SimCap (Simulation and Capacity Analysis) User Group invites you to attend our Current Issues in Capacity Analysis workshop being held on Thursday, April 24th, 2014 at a location to be determined. This free workshop will focus on the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) and Synchro and their use in traffic and capacity analysis in the Greater Toronto Area. As part of the workshop, a sample capacity analysis problem and case study will be discussed in order to facilitate a roundtable discussion of HCM 2010 vs. Synchro ICU results and difficulties experienced when using Synchro 8's embedded HCM 2010 analysis techniques. Viable alternative software to Synchro which uses HCM 2010 capacity analysis techniques will also be presented and discussed! We are calling for sample problem to be discussed during the workshop. Please send us

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your sample file along with a description of the problem by Thursday, April 17th, 2014. To ensure we have sufficient space, we are asking members interested in attending contact our Activities Coordinator, Amy Jiang, at [email protected]. Please confirm your attendance by Monday April 21st, 2014. For more information please contact Matthew Davis at [email protected] or Nixon Chan at [email protected]. We'll see you there!

ITE Toronto Section Spring Luncheon: Hurontario-Main LRT Project – City of Mississauga: Successes and Challenges Date: Friday, May 2, 2014 Time: TBD Location: TBD

The 2014 Spring Luncheon will showcase the Hurontario-Main Street Light Rail Transit (HMLRT) Project. The HMLRT corridor connects the Cities of Mississauga and Brampton in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) of Ontario, Canada. The HMLRT, one of fifteen transit priorities within the GTHA, is being led by a joint initiative between the Cities of Mississauga and Brampton. City of Mississauga staff will be on hand to deliver a presentation on the HMLRT and provide its current status and future direction.

The 24 km corridor (which includes 27 stops) runs from the Port Credit GO Station and runs north to downtown Mississauga and on to downtown Brampton. The corridor crosses several 400-series highways and intersects with three regional GO rail lines. Places to Grow GTHA forecast indicates growth by 1.7 Million people and 700,000 jobs by 2031 with significant growth in the Hurontario-Main corridor with 100,000 new residents and 50,000 jobs. The starting point for the HMLRT was the development of a comprehensive corridor Master Plan. This provides the long term context for the corridor, using LRT as a catalyst to creating a: “beautiful street, with attractive “places” along the Corridor featuring expanded mobility, vibrant economic activity, and liveable, connected, mixed-use neighbourhoods, integrated with the transportation infrastructure.” The HMLRT project is now completing preliminary design and fulfilling the requirements of the Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) scheduled for completion in spring 2014.




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The presentation will define an urban style LRT as it relates to the Hurontario-Main corridor and provide full details of the engineering and design challenges faced by the project team in advancing the Master Plan vision. RSVPs can now be accepted by contacting our Activities Coordinator, Amy Jiang, at [email protected].

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, Ontario, Canada.

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. 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



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Past Events Toronto's Downtown Transportation Operations Study and Congestion Management Plan – Stephen Buckley from City of Toronto Thursday, February 20, 2014 The ITE Toronto Section and the City of Toronto hosted more than 30 people from the private and public sectors as well as local universities, on Thursday, February 20, 2014 from 7:30am to 9:00am at the Toronto City Hall, to attend an information session to learn more about the two studies and City of Toronto's plans to implement their congestion management program, including their new organizational structure and requirements for consultant services.

Stephen Buckley and Myles Currie from City of Toronto’s Transportation Services Division were present and delivered a presentation entailing a discussion on the City’s Traffic Management Centre re-organization and staff expansion and also the upcoming consultant opportunities.

Mr. Stephen Buckley presenting on Toronto’s Downtown Transportation Operations Study

Mr. Myles Currie presenting on Congestion Management Plan 2014-2018

The presentations focused on Downtown Transportation Operation Study entailing the implementation of strategies to address congestion primarily on the downtown core as well as associated impacts related

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to F.G Gardiner Expressway. The presentations continued by making references to the Congestion Management Plan 2014 -2018, a study to provide for the expanded use of ITS strategies as well enhancement of Active Traffic Management.

Road Safety for Rural Road Networks Workshop Wednesday, March 5, 2014

The Road Safety for Rural Road Networks Workshop was a day-long event on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 organized by the ITE Toronto Section in collaboration with the CITE Technical Liaison Committee to increase education and awareness of road safety engineering. The event was held at Hilton Garden Inn in Vaughan and brought together approximately 20 public and private sector transportation professionals from across the province.

Russell Brownlee presenting on key topics on rural road safety

The workshop instructors were Russell Brownlee, Principal at Giffin Koerth, and Greg Junnor, Senior Project Manager at Hatch Mott MacDonald, who discussed key topics relating to rural road safety, including current state-of-the-practice in rural road safety, safety analysis methods and programs, human factors, dominant collision types, road and intersection design, roadside safety, and roadside maintenance.

Audience at the workshop

Big thanks to all who attended the workshop, and to the instructors Russell and Greg for their informative and interactive instruction.

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6th Annual Toronto, Hamilton, and Southwest Ontario Sections Joint Student Presentation Competition and Job Fair at Mohawk College (Hamilton ON) Tuesday, March 18, 2014

After three years, the annual Joint ITE Student Presentation Competition and Job Fair returned to Mohawk College in Hamilton on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The competition featured student presenters from McMaster University, Ryerson University, the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo, following a small job fair featuring staff from MMM Group, City of London, City of Hamilton and Region of Waterloo.

Jason Neudorf – 2014 Graduate Category Winner

The 2014 competition winner in the graduate category was Jason Neudorf from the University of Waterloo for his presentation on A New Method of Modeling and Representing Accessibility. The winner in the undergraduate category was George Robinson from Ryerson University for his presentation on Downtown High-Rise Residential Parking Considerations. It should be noted that both are students enrolled in a program in Urban and Regional

Planning, which may be a first for this competition, and demonstrates the diversity of the transportation profession. Congratulations also to the other participants: Monir Moniruzzaman from McMaster, Ramona Mirtorabi from the University of Waterloo, and both Edvard Bruun and Teddy Lin from the University of Toronto for giving great presentations!

George Robinson – 2014 Undergraduate Category Winner

Thanks to ITE Hamilton Section and the Mohawk College ITE Student Chapter for organizing and facilitating this year’s competition. Thanks also to our judges (Maged Elmadhoon, John Grieve, Ross Patrick, Tim Mendoza, Sean Nix, Ed Switenky and Rick Walshaw) for volunteering their time to evaluate the presentations. A special thanks to CITE for affording ALL presenters to receive a prize in both graduate and undergraduate categories. First place winners received $350; second place winners received $150; and the third place winner in the graduate category received $100. The 2014 winners have been invited to attend, free of charge, the ITE Toronto Section Spring Luncheon.

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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.

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.










Sustainable Initiative across the GTA Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Speakers Bio and Presentation Blurbs Antoine Belaieff, Metrolinx, Embarking on a Journey towards Sustainability Antoine Belaieff, MCIP, RPP is the Director of Innovation at Metrolinx, responsible for advancing innovation and sustainability at Metrolinx. He also oversees the Smart Commute Transportation Demand Management Program, and the Transit Procurement Initiative (which works with transit systems to purchase buses and related goods and services). Antoine is a Professional Planner, who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from McGill University in Montreal, a Master’s Degree in Planning from the University of Toronto, and a Master’s Degree in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. At the core of Metrolinx’s mandate is to help create a sustainable region. In his presentation, Antoine will explore how Metrolinx is contributing to improving the sustainability of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area through its projects and programs, and how Metrolinx is now taking a close look at its own operations to minimize its environmental impact. Joanna Kervin, TTC, Integrated Station Design: Focal Points for Sustainable Communities Joanna Kervin, P.Eng. is a Director on the senior management team responsible for the delivery of the $2.6B Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension project. She is directly responsible for managing all third party relationships and approvals, planning processes and property acquisitions for the project. Her team is responsible for building permits, traffic management oversight, utilities coordination/approvals, site plan approvals, and environmental compliance. She is also responsible for strategic communications and direct liaison elected officials, senior federal, provincial and municipal staff and key stakeholders. She has been involved with this project from the Environmental Assessment phase, through funding negotiations and now, implementation. Joanna has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario. She worked in the private sector as a consultant for more than 15 years before joining the City of Toronto in their City Planning Division as a manager in Transportation Planning. She joined the TTC’s TYSSE project management team in 2009. Joanna is a Past President of the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers and is a Past International Director on the Board of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. She has presented at CITE and ITE conferences on numerous topics and at various conferences over the past 15 years. Joanna’s presentation will discuss the design of the six new subway stations on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension project, integration with other transit modes/services and how the station designs provide support for sustainable development in the neighbourhoods surrounding the stations. The presentation will include a review of the context of secondary plans that have been developed in the majority of the station neighbourhoods. Brian Titherington, York Region, Maintenance Implications of Transportation Sustainability Brian Titherington, P.Eng. is the Director of Roads for York Region. His portfolio includes the design and construction of the Region’s $100M per year Roads Capital plan as well as the $30M per year roads maintenance program. Before becoming the Director of Roads in 2012, Brian spent 4 years with the York Region Rapid Transit Corporation overseeing the Region’s interests on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. Prior to joining the Region, Brian spent 10 years with MMM Group as a Project Manager in the Transportation group. Brian will speak on the maintenance implications of transportation sustainability. Transportation professionals have been promoting the positive aspects of transportation sustainability for a number of years; however, many of these improvements create significant challenges from a roads maintenance perspective. The purpose of the presentation will be to provide some insight into these challenges to help designers understand the complete picture of sustainability.

Learn Fast If you bring your laptop to the class, you will be able to get Emme 4 installed on it during the course

ANALYTICAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING 5-Days of Transportation Planning + Hands-on Using Emme 4 May 26th - 30th 2014

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Instructor Dr. A. Mekky, P.Eng.

COURSE NOTES Each participant will receive a comprehensive course notebook “Analytical Transportation Planning” (ATP) (700 pages) as well as the book ”Transportation Modelling Using Emme” 500 pages. Electronic files with solved examples and useful macros will be provided. The 12 chapters in the ATP book are: CHAPTER 1 URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CHAPTER 2 DATA CHAPTER 3 THE TRANSPORTATION MODEL CHAPTER 4 TRIP GENERATION MODELS CHAPTER 5 TRIP DISTRIBUTION MODELS CHAPTER 6 MODAL SPLIT MODELS CHAPTER 7 TRIP ASSIGNMENT MODELS CHAPTER 8 EVALUATION OF TRANSPORTATION MODELS CHAPTER 9 ESTIMATION AND UPDATING O-D MATRICES

FROM TRAFFIC COUNTS CHAPTER 10 EMME TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

PACKAGE CHAPTER 11 TOLL ROAD TRAVEL DEMAND AND REVENUE

ESTIMATION CHAPTER 12 LABS/ EXERCISES

LOCATION The course will be held at Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For overnight accommodation, please contact Westin Prince, (416) 444-2511, Crowne Plaza Hotel (416) 449-4111, or see the web site http://themegacity.com/maps/downtownmap.htm HOURS OF ATTENDANCE The course starts at 9:00 a.m. and finishes at 5:00 p.m. On the first day, please arrive at least 15 minutes earlier for registration and coffee. QUESTIONS? If you have any question, please call Dr. A. Mekky at (905) 889-7092 or contact him via email at [email protected]

Five-Day Workshop

LIMITED ENROLMENT REGISTER TODAY!

Registration Form Yes, please reserve a place for me and for the following participants at the workshop Analytical Transportation Planning, in Toronto

Please accept payment for $ (CD$1350/US$1250 per person) made payable to: Dr. A. Mekky. Mail to: 54 Tanjo Court, Thornhill, Ontario, L4J 3B4, CANADA Please register the following individuals: Dr. Mr. Ms. Position: Email Address Dr. Mr. Ms. Position: Email Address Company Address Phone Number

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Workshop Benefits

One primary benefit of attending this comprehensive, five-day workshop is sharing your practical problems with a small group of about ten to fifteen fellow planning professionals. As a working group, you will share expertise. You will help one another explore solutions to specific transportation planning problems. Dr. Mekky will be on hand throughout to lend his expert assistance. During the Workshop, you will learn modelling and Emme. But even if your present job does not require you to directly use these tools, you will become familiar with them, and you will be able to make a sound judgement if you are managing a consultant/ employee who uses them.

Day 1: Trip Generation & Trip Distribution

• Introduction • Trip Generation (Multiple Regression, Multiple

Classification & Category Analysis Models) • Trip Distribution (Growth Factor & Gravity Models)

Day 2: Modal Split and Trip Assignment

• Modal Split (Logit & Probit Models) • Trip Assignment (Equilibrium Assignment Method +)

Day 3: Emme 4; Base Concepts & Interactive Data Entry

• Emme 4: Concepts & Graphical User Interface (GUI) • Emme 4: 4 Explorers; Data Explorer, Worksheet/ Table

Explorer, View Explorer, Media Explorer • Emme 4: Worksheet/ Tables • Emme 4: Layer Controls (Filters, Style & Style Index) • Emme 4: Editing Toolbar (File, Edit, View, Tools, Help) • Emme 4: Displaying Network Elements • Emme 4: Tools; Network Editor, Prompt Console • Emme 4: Scenarios, modes, centroids, nodes & links • Emme 4: Build databank and use Emme 4 Interactive

Mode to enter and check data. Prepare and do an assignment (Prompt). Check results and output them.

Day 4: Emme 4; Batch Entry, Matrices & Modelling • Emme 4: Creating Scenarios & Comparing them • Emme 4: Using Batch Mode to input data. • Emme 4: Transit Modelling & Transit Assignment • Emme 4: Model future origins and destinations

using trip generation models developed by you and display results. Use those estimates to calculate the future (2021) origin-destination matrix for the City (trip Distribution). Assign the matrix and show network volumes and growth.

Day 5: Emme 4; Modelling, Scenario Comparisons

• Network & Configurable Attribute Calculators • Emme 4: Expressions & Extra attributes • Emme 4: Matrices and Matrix Calculator • Emme 4: Using Emme 4 Modeller • Emme 4: Modify the Emme 4 dimensions of the

GTA/ City of Winnipeg databanks & Customize • Emme 4: Create scenarios for the GTA/ City of

Winnipeg with & without a new Hwy/ bridge & plot origins, destinations, volumes, speeds, travel times, trip length-frequency distribution. Compare the situation before & after building the facility.

• Emme 4: Check the Braess Paradox. •

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Who Should Attend This five-day workshop is for those who wish to gain a better understanding of transportation planning techniques, models, Emme and their applications to real-life situations. You should consider enrolling if you are any of the following: • Traffic engineer • Transportation engineer / planner • Urban transit planner • Travel demand researcher • Land-use planner • Transportation economist • Civil engineer •

Emme 4 Practice As a participant in this course you will develop hands-on experience using Emme 4. It is one of the world’s most powerful transportation software packages. It is widely used by more than 700 transportation organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Emme 4 provides a flexible environment for transportation model development, calibration and validation. The software’s main features include the following: • Equilibrium assignment • Bi-modal assignment • Variable demand assignment • Impressive graphics Participants in this course should have a working knowledge of Excel. Exercises include calibrating Trip Generation and Trip Distribution models using Excel and Emme 4. These practical sessions will help you understand the details of modelling in terms of their application to your area. Bring your laptop to the class and speed up your ability to learn and exercise with Emme 4.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR Dr. A. Mekky, P.Eng. earned his Ph.D. in Transportation Planning in 1977. He is a Senior Policy Advisor and Adjunct Professor (Ryerson University) with a wide teaching experience, having instructed undergraduate and graduate students in Traffic and Transportation Engineering and Planning in Canada, USA, Europe & the Middle East. Dr. Mekky has extensive experience in developing various kinds of mathematical and Monte Carlo planning models. He worked in municipal and provincial governments as well as in the private sector in developed and developing countries for more than 30 years. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and a Fellow of the ITE.

Why You Should Attend Transportation planning models and techniques are powerful tools for improving mobility and accessibility in cities and regions. By studying travel patterns and using transportation planning techniques, planners can objectively evaluate future transportation investments. By attending this comprehensive five-day workshop, you will learn to apply the newest analytical methods to reduce traffic and travel problems and devise better ways of moving people and goods while being mindful of the environmental impacts that transportation has on cities. You will learn to calibrate and test transportation models, to evaluate their effectiveness and usefulness for varying requirements and scenarios. This course uses extensive case studies. Hands-on practice with transportation planning methods will increase your capabilities with these techniques. Among the materials covered during this workshop, you will benefit from learning more about: • How to choose a zoning system; • How to choose the type of model to

use in Trip Generation, Trip Distribution, Modal Split and Trip Assignment;

• What is the meaning of “Entropy” and how it can be used to generate a family of distribution models;

• What is “Utility” in the context of transportation planning;

• What is the difference between LOGIT and PROBIT models;

• How Equilibrium Assignment differs from other types of trip assignments;

• What are the strengths/ weaknesses of mathematical modelling;

• And much, much more!

1. Make better decisions by employing the latest planning tools.

2. Make easier decisions because you are using thoroughly developed models.

3. Make quicker decisions by utilizing computers more effectively.

4. Use PC Automation to reduce margins of error and potential financial losses.

5. Increase the success of your projects through improved understanding of the latest transportation techniques.

6. Avoid modelling errors and pitfalls that could cost your organization dearly.

7. Identify shortcuts and avoid mistakes by consulting your instructor on problems you face today.

8. Broaden your experience by networking with peers responsible for transportation planning in government and in the private sector.

9. Increase your job satisfaction, as you will be better equipped to excel.

10. Update your skills and knowledge in the transportation modelling field.

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