Future Seminars
Previous Seminars
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TRAM and CIRRELT weekly transportation seminar schedule for Winter 2009
The seminars are held every Thursday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in room 420 at the Macdonald-Harrington Building unless noted differently in the table below.
| Date |
Title and Speaker |
1/8/2009 |
A summary of transportation planning issues affecting McGill University.
Brian Karasick, Physical Planner, Office of Planning &
Institutional Analysis, McGill University
Presentation |
1/15/2009 |
No Seminar this week TRB Annual Meeting |
| 1/22/2009 |
Accessibility considerations in a polarized metropolis: The case of Mexico City
Paula Negron, Lecturer, Institut d'urbanisme Université de Montréal
Presentation |
| 1/29/2009 |
Urban research agenda in Canada: Are we asking the right questions?
Murtaza Haider, Associate Professor, Director of the Institute of Housing & Mobility in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University
Presentation |
| 2/5/2009 |
Passenger car equivalents of trucks under lane restriction and differential speed limit policies on four-lane freeways
Ciprian
Alecsandru, Assistant Professor Department of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering Concordia University
Presentation |
| 2/12/2009 |
Modeling activity spaces using short term travel surveys
Antonio Páez, Associate Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences, Associate Member of Civil Engineering, McMaster University
Presentation |
| 2/19/2009 |
How to Support Complex Transportation Decisions? Recommendations for the Design and the Use of Indicators
Pierre Rondier, PhD Student, Laval University
Presentation |
| 2/26/2009 |
Study Break |
| 3/5/2009 |
Back to the Basics: Meeting the Urban Transport Challenge in Rapidly Motorizing Low-income Countries
Madhav Badami, Associate Professor School of Urban Planning and McGill School of Environment, McGill University
Presentation |
| 3/12/2009 |
Brenda and Samuel Gewurz Lecture Series
Consensus, Urbanism, and Architecture
Ray Gindroz, co-founder and principal emeritus of Urban Design Associates
Note different time and location: 6:00 PM at G-10 Macdonald-Harrington Building |
| 3/19/2009 |
How the car and public transport can work together for sustainable mobility: Car sharing growth in Quebec
Marco Viviani, development and public relations director at Communauto
Presentation |
| 3/26/2009 |
Signal Priority for Transit: Strategies that Really Help Transit without Sacrificing Street Capacity
Peter Furth, Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northeastern University **
Presentation |
| 4/2/2009 |
The economic effects of pedestrianization: A case study of Ste. Catherine Street, Montreal
Rebecca Lazarovic, Masters Student School of Urban Planning McGill University
Presentation
Environments and policies that encourage bicycle commuting: what needs to target to increase the modal share
Nicole Laplante, Masters Student School of Urban Planning McGill University
Presentation |
| 4/9/2009 |
The Coevolution of Transport and Land Use
David Levinson, Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota and Director of the Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems (NEXUS) research group *
Presentation |
*Speaker Sponsored by MTQ Accessibility Project
** Speaker Sponsored by NSERC-CRD program
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