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1TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA 2020 AWARDS

2 TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA2020 AWARDS

Each year, TAC members recognize their peers with a number of prestigious awards.

TAC Technical Achievement Awards Recognizing TAC member organizations

TAC Volunteer Contribution Awards Recognizing volunteers on TAC councils and committees

TAC Young Professional & Student Awards Recognizing emerging members of the transportation profession

Other Acknowledgements

Technical Achievement2020Awards ! TAC Educational Achievement Award

! TAC Environmental Achievement Award

! TAC Road Safety Engineering Award

! TAC Sustainable Urban Transportation Award

! TAC Distinguished Service Award

! TAC Leadership Award

! TAC Individual Contribution Award

! TAC Committee Excellence Award

! TAC Young Transportation Professional Award

! Allan Widger Consulting Corporation Grant for Young Geotechnical Engineers in Transportation

! TAC Student Paper Awards

! Outgoing President

! Outgoing Chairs

! Outgoing Board Members

TAC couldn’t achieve its mission without the expertiseand leadership of our 800 dedicated volunteers.


TAC Educational Achievement Award

TAC Environmental Achievement Award

This award recognizes a TAC member organization for outstanding contributions in education and/or training through an in-house or external program.

British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Highway Maintenance Contract Training Course

The Ministry’s performance-based approach to long-term contracts for highway maintenance encourages innovation, but requires a shared understanding and high level of trust between parties.

To this end, the Ministry developed specialized training for staff and contractors, to improve knowledge and skills and to create positive working relationships. Using a variety of instructional techniques, more than 420 participants were successfully trained over 19 two-day sessions in 2018-19.

City of Ottawa Going Green by Seeing the Greens

Ottawa’s EcoDrive II project showed how connected vehicle (CV) technologies can help drivers reduce fuel consumption and emissions.

City fleet vehicles were equipped to receive real-time traffic control information, and in-vehicle displays showed drivers how to adjust their speed and reach the next intersection during a green signal. Fuel savings averaged about 5%, representing significant financial and environmental benefits.

Technical AchievementAwards

This award recognizes a TAC member organization for outstanding contributions to the environment with respect to transportation services.


TAC Road Safety Engineering Award

TAC Sustainable Urban Transportation Award

British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Road Weather Information System and Variable Message Sign Integration

By combining road weather information system (RWIS) and variable message sign (VMS) technologies at seven rural highway locations, severe winter collisions have been reduced by more than 30%.

Each location features one RWIS plus a VMS facing each direction. Weather and road conditions are analyzed every 15 minutes and an algorithm selects an appropriate message to display for drivers.

City of Nanaimo Nanaimo Goes Dutch

Nanaimo’s new Complete Street Design Guideline incorporates guidance on creating Dutch-style raised intersections (with continuous sidewalks and cycling facilities on the major street) where drivers use local streets to enter or exit neighbourhoods.

Concurrent to the guideline’s development it was tested and refined through the design of the Metral Drive Complete Street project, which (when constructed) will show Canadian communities an innovative way to enhance the priority and safety of walking and cycling.

Volunteer ContributionTechnical AchievementAwards

This award recognizes a TAC member organization for contributions and innovative approaches to the development and enhancement of sustainable urban transportation.

This award recognizes a TAC member organization for an outstanding road safety engineering initiative that has contributed to improved safety on Canadian roadways.


TAC Distinguished Service Award

Gérard Desgagné formerly with Ministère des Transports du Québec (retired)

Gérard Desgagné has spent three decades at the MTQ, distinguishing himself through the skilled management of a large portfolio of engineering structures as the Director of Structural Design. He also held inspection and maintenance responsibilities. Mr. Desgagné has dedicated himself

to advancing knowledge in this field by participating in scientific committees and helping to develop standards and directives at both provincial and national levels. Among other positions, he was the Chair of the Regulatory Authority Committee of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code.

Mr. Desgagné has been active in TAC for more than 15 years as a member of the Structures Standing Committee as well as project steering committees for the Guide to Bridge Management; the Guide for Bridge Repair and Rehabilitation; the Guide to Bridge Traffic and Combination Barriers; the Sustainability Considerations for Bridges Guide; and the Design, Construction, Maintenance and Inspection Guide for Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls.

Volunteer ContributionAwards

This award is TAC’s highest honour. It recognizes leaders who have had a tangible and enduring impact on the association’s progress toward its vision and mission, and thereby on Canada’s transportation sector. Recipients have contributed actively to TAC councils and committees for at least 15 years, among their 25 years or more of industry experience.

Darrell Evans P.E.I. Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy

Darrell Evans has spent 25 years as an engineering expert in public service and consulting. For two decades he has focused on the design of highways and bridge structures for the Province, playing key roles in the introduction of bridge asset management and the reintroduction of highway pavement asset management. He is the current Chair of the Technical Committee for the 2025

edition of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code, and teaches structural analysis courses at the University of PEI.

Mr. Evans has been an active participant in TAC’s Structures Standing Committee since 2000, serving on the executive from 2009 to 2016. He is a member of the Asset Management Committee, and has represented PEI on project steering committees for the Guide to Bridge Traffic and Combination Barriers; the Design, Construction, Maintenance and Inspection Guide for Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls (as Chair); and the ongoing project on Canadian Vehicle Load Practices and Recommendations.


Alf Guebert AAGuebert & Associates Inc.

Alf Guebert spent the first half of his distinguished forty-year career responsible for traffic operations in the City of Saskatoon, and the second half with consulting firms including AECOM and Watt Consulting Group. He has been a valued member of TAC’s Transportation Operations & Management Committee for more than three decades, including eight years on the executive

with two years as Chair. During that time, he participated on the steering committees of numerous technical projects including the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada, 5th Edition.

Mr. Guebert has been committed to improving professional practice, and is active in a variety of organizations. He has been a Director of ITS Canada, a Board member of the Transportation Professional Certification Board, and a Canadian and International President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). The Canadian District of ITE previously honoured him with its highest award for distinguished service to the transportation profession in Canada.

Volunteer ContributionVolunteer ContributionAwards

TAC Distinguished Service Award

This award is TAC’s highest honour. It recognizes leaders who have had a tangible and enduring impact on the association’s progress toward its vision and mission, and thereby on Canada’s transportation sector. Recipients have contributed actively to TAC councils and committees for at least 15 years, among their 25 years or more of industry experience.

Ed Miska British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

Ed Miska joined the Ministry in 1992, advanced through roles of increasing leadership responsibility, and since 2015 has been the Executive Director of Engineering Services. Among other accomplishments in that position, he has overseen the adoption of a customer-focused service model, directed the integration of IT and cybersecurity requirements into Ministry

projects, improved succession planning, and acted as mentor and champion for the EIT program.

Mr. Miska was a member of TAC’s Traffic Operations and Management Standing Committee from 1999 to 2017, and for a decade was Vice-Chair of the Editing and Publications Subcommittee that is responsible for revisions to TAC’s traffic operations manuals. Key documents published under his leadership include the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 5th Edition and the associated Sign Pattern Manual. Mr. Miska sat on TAC’s Chief Engineers’ Council, and now applies his leadership and commitment to TAC’s vision as a member of the Board of Directors.


TAC Leadership Award

Marta Juhasz Alberta Transportation

Marta has shared her leadership and expertise with numerous TAC committees and technical projects

for more than a decade. She has spent many years on the executive of the Pavements Committee, where she made meetings more frequent, interesting and productive for members. Her work included important research on wide-base single tires, a national series of eight one-day seminars on pavement asset design and management, numerous conference papers (many co-authored with colleagues), and many committee presentations. Marta has also been a long-time member of the Soils & Materials Committee, the Asset Management Committee, and the Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide User Group.

Sabbir Saiyed Regional Municipality of Peel

Sabbir is a champion for sustainable transportation, with a keen interest in transportation and health, goods movement and climate change. His tireless efforts and results-oriented leadership style have enabled him to connect with many different practitioner groups within TAC. He has played executive

roles with the former Urban Transportation Council, the Transportation Planning Committee, and now the Climate Change Integrated Committee. Notably, Sabbir championed and then chaired two innovative pooled-fund projects that broadened TAC’s technical scope and led to two important publications – Integrating Health and Transportation in Canada, and Understanding Goods Movement: Trends and Best Practices.

Nancy Badeau Ville de Montréal

Nancy has represented Montréal at the Road Safety Committee since 2009, including time on

the executive when the committee developed an important strategic plan and created subcommittees to deliver key actions.

She was instrumental in the success of a full-day on in-service road safety reviews during the 2014 TAC Conference in Montréal, and co-chaired the subcommittee that planned road safety sessions at the 2015 and 2016 conferences. Nancy has promoted Montréal’s participation in TAC’s pooled-fund projects and represented her employer on steering committees of projects, including as Chair of the Canadian Road Safety Guide Scoping Study PSC.


This award recognizes individual volunteers who have provided continuous, effective leadership during ten or more years of active participation on TAC councils and committees, and who have earned a reputation for dedication, collaboration, knowledge and integrity.


Darlene Cleven Allan Widger Consulting Corporation

Darlene recently completed her term as Chair of the Workforce

Development Council, during which time she has been a passionate and creative champion for developing a stronger, more knowledgeable, healthier and more diverse workforce in the transportation sector. She has been instrumental in delivering a series of successful TAC conference sessions on topics as diverse as mentorship, succession planning, and attracting and retaining young professionals. She has also been instrumental in TAC’s efforts to engage with students, including through the successful Student Day at TAC conferences.

Maya Caron formerly with Ministry of Transportation, Ontario (now with Deloitte Canada)

Maya has participated on the Environment & Climate Change Council and two of its committees over the last decade, acting twice as a member of an Executive. She has supported many volunteer initiatives, including as organizer and moderator of TAC conference sessions. She has championed women within the transportation sector, and headed a working group that explored socioeconomic considerations in the planning of transportation projects. Her participation has always been passionate, focused and inspiring.

Henning Buch Jacobs

Henning has spent several years as an active member of TAC’s Geometric Design Committee and

Road Safety Committee, and on the Executive of the Revisions and Additions Subcommittee, lending his expertise in interchange design and roadside safety. Of recent note, he is the volunteer author of a new Chapter 11–Special Roads of the Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads, a project that involved comprehensively rewriting, updating and expanding a chapter on low volume roads from the 1986 edition.

Mark Hearson Stantec Consulting Ltd.

Mark has shown tremendous initiative and commitment in five years as a volunteer. For the Road

Safety Committee, he developed workshops on drone applications, speed management and active transportation. He led a volunteer project on LED lighting best practices for small municipalities, and developed several paper and panel sessions as an Executive member of the Asset Management Committee. For the former CAV Working Group, he developed two project proposals and coordinated a grant application related to human resource development and professional training.

Volunteer ContributionVolunteer ContributionAwards

This award recognizes individual volunteers who have exhibited notable levels of initiative, creativity, effort and/or technical excellence in contributing to the work of TAC councils or committees over the preceding five years.

TAC Individual Contribution Award


Greg Iwaskow City of Calgary

Greg joined the Traffic Operations & Management Committee as a CITE representative in the early 2000s, and

since then has participated on 21 pooled-fund and volunteer project steering committees addressing a range of subjects including road markings, signs and traffic signals for modes from walking and cycling to transit. He has chaired project steering committees for four volunteer projects as well as for the Pedestrian Crossing Control Guide, 3rd Edition, and has been an active member of the Editing and Publication Subcommittee since 2014.

Martin Hotte formerly with Ministère des Transports du Québec (retired)

Martin has been a strong, knowledgeable voice for sustainability

within TAC. He spent six years as an executive member of the former Sustainable Transportation Standing Committee, and as a member of the former Urban Transportation Council. Martin developed many TAC conference sessions, and co-chaired the steering committee of the project that led to the publication Moving Smarter: Exploring Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Solutions for Canadian Cities. He also served on TAC’s Climate Change Task Force, and as Chair of the former Integrated Committee on Climate Change.

Timothy Spurr formerly of Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (now with Giro Inc.)

Timothy was an active and insightful member of TAC’s Transportation Planning Committee and Transportation Finance Committee for many years. He co-chaired the project steering committee that led to the TAC publication Changing Practices in Data Collection on the Movement of People, helped steer the project on Transportation Funding and Governance in Canada’s Large Metropolitan Areas, and was key to scoping TAC’s ongoing project on performance-based decision making. Tim willingly took on leadership roles at critical times, and even served concurrently on the executives of two committees.

Ana Lopez British Columbia Institute of Technology

Over the last decade, including as an Executive member, Ana played key

roles on the Workforce Development Council. With enthusiasm and compassion, she expanded its scope and promoted partnerships with other councils. She applied her expertise as a champion and conference session organizer on topics including ethics, succession planning and retirement preparation, and was a steadfast supporter of efforts to engage with young professionals and students including through TAC’s awards program.


This award recognizes individual volunteers who have exhibited notable levels of initiative, creativity, effort and/or technical excellence in contributing to the work of TAC councils or committees over the preceding five years.

TAC Individual Contribution Award


Integrating Health and Transportation in Canada Project Steering Committee

TAC’s Integrating Health and Transportation in Canada publication shows how public health can be either enhanced or diminished by transportation system policies, plans, analyses, design, operation and funding. Development of this publication was steered by a collaborative group of agencies that assigned multi-disciplinary staff from transportation and health departments – a unique occurrence. This step invited broad knowledge and perspectives, and demonstrated the agencies’ open-minded willingness to work together and achieve a result that is helpful to both sectors.

The members of the Project Steering Committee worked hard to deliver a successful project – and the landmark project report is something to be very proud of.

Young Professional &Volunteer Contribution

Other Acknowledgements

This award recognizes excellence and innovation by TAC’s volunteer committees, subcommittees, working groups and project steering committees. Recipient groups have contributed to TAC’s vision and mission through initiatives in the areas of knowledge building, professional development, or member engagement.

Committees

Outgoing President Outgoing Chairs

Project Steering Committees

Outgoing Board Members

! Melissa Cummings, Environmental Legislation Committee ! Amy McLenaghan, Environmental Issues Committee ! Hassan Baaj, Soils & Materials Committee ! Shannon Noonan, Small Municipalities Integrated Committee

Panels, Councils & Task Forces

! Angela Gardiner, Chief Engineers Panel ! Garreth Rempel, Connected & Automated Vehicles Task Force

! Darren Chaisson, P.E.I. Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy

! Fred Antunes, Saskatchewan Highways and Infrastructure

! Kelly Cain, formerly of New Brunswick Transportation and Infrastructure

! Paul Guy, formerly of Northwest Territories Department of Infrastructure

! Tracy King, formerly of Newfoundland and Labrador Transportation and Works

! Shelley Tapp, formerly of Ministry of Transportation, Ontario

! André Tremblay, formerly of Alberta Transportation

! Ania Anthony, Best Practices for Evaluating Soil and Material Stabilization Products ! Nancy Badeau, Canadian Road Safety Guide Scoping Study ! Darren Burmey, Canadian Vehicle Load Practices and Recommendations ! Rob Hird, Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada, 6th Edition ! James Smith, Performance-Based Decision Making ! Michael Bateman, Performance-Based Decision Making ! Ethan Askey, Synthesis of Practices for Management and Enhancement of

Terrestrial Roadway Ecology

TAC Committee Excellence Award

Awards


Elli Papaioannou HDR

Ms. Papaiaonnou earned Master’s degrees in engineering from institutions in Greece and Canada, and has experience in transportation planning and engineering in both the public and private sectors. Early in her career, she was involved in planning rapid transit projects at Metrolinx. She is now a member of HDR’s multidisciplinary

long-range transportation planning team, and has been instrumental in building a Sustainability and Resiliency cross-sector in Canada for HDR. Her interpersonal skills and technical knowledge make her indispensable on rapid transit studies and multimodal transportation plans, such as the Greater Golden Horseshoe Transportation Plan, Mississauga’s award-winning Lakeshore Road Transportation Master Plan, and Vaughan’s Transportation Master Plan update.

Ms. Papaiaonnou recognizes the importance of sharing knowledge with the industry, and has authored nine papers and presentations for TAC and CITE. She volunteers as a Young People in Transportation committee member, and is a member of Women’s Transportation Seminar. She is involved in HDR’s Young Professionals Group (YPG), and in 2019 organized a summit that brought over 200 of HDR’s young professionals to Toronto. She is passionate about sustainable transportation and, as a regular bicycle commuter, practices what she preaches.

Ahmed Ghazy City of Winnipeg

Ahmed is a Research and Standards Engineer in the City of Winnipeg’s Public Works

Department who completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2018. He is a registered professional engineer with 12 years of experience and numerous publications related to materials performance and durability. He is a member of TAC’s Pavements Committee, Soils & Materials Committee, Automated Pavement Condition Data Collection User Group, and Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design User Group. He is also a member of several Transportation Research Board standing committees, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Manitoba where he helps supervise graduate students.

Young Professional &Student Awards

TAC Young Transportation Professional Award

Allan Widger Consulting Corporation Grant for Young Geotechnical Engineers in Transportation

This award recognizes an employee of a TAC member organization who has made outstanding contributions to the transportation sector, and who is not more than 35 years old on December 31 in the year of the award.

This grant provides financial support to a young geotechnical engineer working in transportation to enable his/her attendance and participation in TAC’s conference and technical meetings.

These awards recognize the excellence of papers delivered at TAC’s annual conference by full-time post-secondary students, evaluated by members of TAC’s Workforce Development Council.

1st prize $500 | 2nd prize $300 | 3rd prize $200

TAC Student Paper Awards

Andrew Northmore University of New Brunswick

Daniel Mroz Western University

Mai Alawneh University of Saskatchewan

Development of Collision Adjustment Factors for

the Canadian Traffic Signal Warrant Matrix Procedure

Evaluation of Modified H-Piles Subject to Lateral Loading for Sound Wall

Applications

Investigating the Freeze-Thaw Damage in Asphalt Concrete Using Imaging

Techniques

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