2024 Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Conference & Exhibition

Technology & Transformation

Please join us at Canada’s largest national transportation conference in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. Learn from and network with over 1,400 transportation professional consultants, government officials and academia. The conference will focus on technological advances and how emerging digital innovations are being used to build and operate the transportation systems of the future. Come by Booth 221 to discuss these exciting trends with our professionals.

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Connect With Our 2024 TAC Presenters

Monday, September 23

Enhancing Bridge Condition Prediction through Genetic Algorithms and Generalized Estimating Equations for Improved Bridge Management

• 1:45 p.m. | Room 7
• Presenter: Maryam Tagh Bostani, HDR

“Covering” All the Bases – Bringing the Community Together with the I-5 Rose Quarter Project

• 1:45 p.m. | Room 2
• Presenters: Camille Alexander & Jeremy Jackson, HDR

Evaluating the Windsor Street Exchange

• 1:45 p.m. | Room 2
• Presenters: Ellie Simpson & Sydni Scott, HDR

Effective and Efficient Requests for Proposals

• 1:45 p.m. | Room 11
• Panelist: Saloni Shah, HDR

Innovative Network Inventory Approach Leads to Development of Strategic Planning and Analysis Tool 

• 1:45 p.m. | Room 17
• Presenters: Lynn Machacek, HDR; Sohee Ahn, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation & Infrastructure

The Hidden Cost of Inaction: Fairly Assessing New Transit Investments 

• 3:45 p.m. | Room 17
• Presenters: Adrian Sin & Nick Shaw, HDR

Tuesday, September 24

Identifying a Novel Solution to Address Western Canada’s Most Significant Trade Bottleneck 

• 8:30 a.m. | Room 18
• Presenter: Jeff Simpson, HDR

Hardcoding network resilience into Toronto’s transit expansion programme: A Scarborough LRT case study

• 8:30 a.m. | Room 13
• Presenters: Nick Shaw & Adrian Sin, HDR

Professors vs. Practitioners: A Friendly Debate on Transportation Education and Training

• 8:30 a.m. | Room 2
• Panelist: Heather Templeton, HDR

Re-defining “Best Efforts” – Leveraging the Functional Planning Process to Integrate LIDs into Complete Streets

• 10:30 a.m. | Room 16
• Presenters: Janice Look & Aaron Farrell, HDR

Paving the Way to Planless Digital Delivery

• 10:30 a.m.  | Room 3
• Presenter: Will Sharp, HDR

When Grade Separation is the Answer

• 1:45 p.m. | Room 7
• Presenters: Smith Siromaskul & Will Hume, HDR

The Case for Transportation Equity: Innovative Approaches to Equity Analysis in Transit Infrastructure Business Cases

• 1:45 p.m. | Room 17
• Presenters: Lee Caragiale & Chris Behr, HDR

Wednesday, September 25

It’s Not the System You Have, It’s How You Use It

• 3 p.m. | Room 17
• Presenter: Dan Lu, HDR

Evaluating the Impacts of Increasing Freeway Posted Speed Utilizing Reliability-Based Framework

• 3 p.m. | Room 3
• Presenter: Mohamed Khalil, HDR

Beyond Dollars and Cents: Measuring the Public Benefits of a Zero-Emission Fleet Transition

• 3 p.m. | Room 19
• Presenter: Jordan Kafka, HDR