Essential ITS vol 2 : simplebooklet.com

Essential ITS Magazine - 4 Issue 02 | 2023By: Ross McKenzieCircumnavigating two-thirds of the city, the Regina Bypass is the largest transportation infrastructure project ever undertaken in Saskatchewan. The 44 km route is a 4-lane twinned highway forming a partial ring road which includes a key section of the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy. 1) south of the city and provides a west side link from Hwy. 1 north to the Louis Riel Trail (Hwy. 11).A six-year project from initial procurements in 2013 through completion of the second and nal construction phase in 2019, the Bypass provides core ITS elements to the Ministry of Highways anchored by a data and trac management centre that is designed for future corridors and additional technology integration.ITS infrastructure of the Bypass includes:- Wireless telecommunications integrated with bre- Weigh-in-motion commercial vehicle pre-screening stations- Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS)- Radar-based trac data counters.Associated Engineering served as Owner’s Engineer to initiate the project, developing a plan that supported developing the successful P3 business case. Parsons Canada is the P3’s engineering partner as well as an equity partner. Handback of the Bypass from the P3 partners to the province will be in 2049.Completed on time and on budget, in 2020 the Regina Bypass received the National Gold Award for Infrastructure from the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.Unique ITS Stretch: Regina BypassResults:1. Reduction in vehicle collisions; lowering fatalities, reducing injuries, and saving $2-3M annually in property damage.2. Reduction of truck trac on city streets, decreasing the length of Regina area roads classied as ‘approaching or exceeding congestion’ by 20%.3. Reduction in fuel consumption for heavy vehicles using the Bypass, saving up to 300M litres over 30 years.Input from: The Province of Saskatchewan / Regina Bypass Partner

Page 5

Essential ITS Magazine - 5Issue 02 | 2023The City of Toronto launched a pilot project in 2022 in partnership with the Toronto Blue Jays, expanding the existing security suite at the Rogers Centre to include a Toronto Road Emergency Services Communication Unit (RESCU) trac management operations workstation.Providing a panoramic view of the venue’s space, the existing Blue Jays security suite was already used for attendee ow coordination and threat management. The addition of theRESCU Event Command Centre provides access to the City’s surrounding trac cameras and remote control of local trac signals.Alongside Toronto Police, Toronto Trac Management Section sta now work side-by-side with Blue Jays security sta during major events to eectively manage vehicle and pedestrian trac, both when attendees are entering and leaving the venue. This eort compliments the RogersCentre’s on-site attendee ow coordination. City sta not only manage the trac signals but, also coordinate the eld trac management comprising trac agents and trac control personnel from the RESCU Event Command Centre.Establishing this new RESCU Event Command Centre at the Rogers Centre is one small piece of the City’s much larger, more comprehensive Congestion Management Plan, known as MoveTO. MoveTO includes a range of proven, data-driven tactics that prioritize trac ow, public transit, active transportation and the ecient movement of goods and services throughout the city. These eorts, alongside transit expansion are important as travel demand in Toronto continues to rise with increasing population and economic growth.As part of the MoveTO plan, the City has also advanced the installation of additional cameras, Bluetooth readers, as well as microwave and LiDAR detection systems to help establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for the measures being taken.Blue Jays security sta provide Toronto sta with rates of people departing, which is analyzed in parallel with vehicle travel time rates on nearby streets. Results of the combined data analysis are then used for future events to help determine the appropriate number of one way streets for exit vehicles, and the duration one way streets should remain in place.Activation of the RESCU Event Command Centre typically occurs when either there are more than 20,000 attendees expected or in times when there are simultaneous events occurring at the Rogers Centre, Air Canada Centre, Metro Toronto Convention Centre and/ or the CN Tower.Have a Unique ITS Stretch of roadway or Unique ITS Space in Canada we could prole?Email askus@itscanada.caUnique ITS Space: Toronto Rescu event command centre inside rogers centreResults:1. Venue ‘clear times’ reduced by more than one-third (min. 37%), down from 60+ minutes (prior to installation of the Toronto RESCU workstation) to just 38 minutes.2. Threat management improved after analysis of combined data from a security perspective.3. Intersection safety improved by holding pedestrians until turning vehicles ll the destination street, then switching to a ‘pedestrian crossing scramble phase’ signal.Input from:Rogers Communications / Toronto Blue Jays / City of Toronto

Page 6

Essential ITS Magazine - 6 Issue 02 | 2023By: Melissa Nowakowski, Communications Specialist, Durham RTDSThere’s no doubt that excitement is building over Ontario’s latest developments in electric and connected vehicles. But there’s an underlying challenge that few are addressing: these innovations remain stagnant without the ability to test electric and connected vehicle and smart mobility innovation in real-world environments.The environment in which these technologies operate is as important as the technology itself. Preparing the infrastructure for an electric-centred way of life requires integrating these technologies into our communities. This means that municipalities must be ready and willing to act as a sandbox to test and prove that EV and smart mobility innovation work, then commit their resources to accelerate commercialization.This is the mission of the Durham Regional Technology Development Site (Durham RTDS for short). Durham RTDS is a collective of world-class support for startups and small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with innovation in electric and connected vehicles, smart mobility and smart communities. It connects key players in Durham Region to develop and test these innovations in real-world environments and advance them to commercialization and adoption.Durham RTDS comprises innovation centre Spark Centre, Durham College’s Oce of Research Services, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ORSIE), Ontario Tech University and its ACE Climatic Aerodynamic Wind Tunnel and internationally recognized smart community, Durham Region. This consortium combines some of Ontario’s strongest assets to advance electric, connected and autonomous technology solutions: from applied research centres, test labs and EV bi-directional charging research stations to business advisory services, access to funding, municipal sandboxes and more.But Durham RTDS isn’t just a high-calibre collective of ACCELERATING INNOVATION

Page 7

Essential ITS Magazine - 7Issue 02 | 2023resources and support. It’s also a vehicle for creating smart communities and enabling transportation and infrastructure networks to plan for and adapt to the next generation of mobility.In 2022 Durham RTDS launched a series of calls for solutions to regional challenges to startups and SMEs, like technology to help make regional intersections safer and communications and detection systems to improve transit service at bus stops. Successful challenge participants reap signicant benets, prime for accelerating their innovation to market — from technical expertise and research and development resources to business advisory services and, most importantly, the opportunity to pilot their solutions in Durham Region utilizing Regional infrastructure. These challenges aim not only to accelerate the adoption of these innovative technologies but also to further Durham Region’s smart community goals and build upon its reputation as a leading district in Ontario for tech and innovation.“It’s not just the vehicles themselves that are changing the world - it’s the communities in which they operate.” says Chris Gillis, Manager of Applied Research Business Development with Oshawa’s Durham College, “Investment in new infrastructure to support new vehicle capabilities will go way beyond charging stations to such things as smart trac management systems. Communities that embrace these technologies will be safer and enjoy a better quality of life, with less pollution and congestion on their roads. They will also see new business and economic opportunities as companies invest in new technologies and services to support these vehicles and new jobs. The potential benets are enormous, both for individual communities and for the world as a whole.”

Page 8

Essential ITS Magazine - 8 Issue 02 | 2023Transformative Urbanism:The Medellín MetrocableThe story of Medellín’s Metrocable reaches far beyond the built form. The innovation in planning and design that has unfolded in the city over the past 25 years has transformed its urban landscape to solve various complex social issues created by years of Narco-terrorism and spatial inequality.With some of its poorest neighbourhoods located in the vast hillsides and most of the commercial activity taking place at the bottom of the Aburra valley, there has been a disconnect between poorer residents and their ability to access the economic centre of the city. Public investment into Medellín’s built form has been propelled forward by a set of adaptive and innovative economic planning principles pushing for signicant change in equity, accessibility and mobility. Beginning in the 1990s, a new Constitution dened Colombia as a ‘social state under the rule of law’ and mandated large-scale decentralization of local and regional governments, citizen participation in democracy, an emphasis on the ethnic and cultural diversity of the various regions, and most importantly that local governments develop plans to assist the urban poor.In the Social Urban Planning Department at the Medellín Academy, a group of planners began to think about land use and spatial strategies to combat neighbourhood violence. The Metrocable, a system of cable cars designed by Poma and implemented by Metro de Medellín in 2004, was built to reach some of the city’s steepest topographical areas with ‘Line K’ connecting Communas 1 and 2 with the city centre and all other forms of public transportation. The use of cable cars for mass transit in an urban setting was an entirely new way of adapting a technology that had only been utilized previously in low usage tourist destinations.Operating above the movement of goods and services allows the ground circulation to continue without interruption. Elevating the Metrocable lines and stations reduces the impact on the built environment, and the cable cars maintain optimum air ow for their users. There are also natural cooling eects that benet the adjacent homes on the various cable lines. Thinking to the future, and the probability of hillside erosion, operating above ground allows the Metrocable’s physical form to be protected from annual heavy rains as a climate adaptation strategy.The steel support columns meet environmental compliance and have made consideration for seismic requirements. Additionally, the main components of the cable car system remain independent from the platforms and to the stations themselves, minimizing most vibration activity that may aect the operation of the cable car and pedestrian activity. The Metrocable and its connection to the larger transportation network can accommodate the mass daily migration from home to destination all in the beauty of the city’s skyline.The cable cars also present multiple elements of permeability by providing the opportunity for movement and allowing passengers to view the city from inside the cars at dierent points of interest, and at the same time achieving increased accessibility by visually being able to identify the cable car as a transportation option as it moves through the hills.The Metrocable is a transportation success story, playing a starring role in increased economic activity in the vicinity of the stations and reconnecting and reacquainting residents with many urban spaces that had become inaccessible to them. Once considered the most violent city in the world, the Metrocable is an example of a social urbanism tool created to reshape the urban form with a focus on inclusion and community participation to enhance the quality of life for some of the city’s most isolated and underserved residents.By: Amanda Mcilveen

Page 9

Page 10

Page 11

Essential ITS Magazine - 11Issue 02 | 2023ITS Canada 2023 Conference ProgramJune 13, 2023June 14, 202311:00 - 17:00TECHNICAL TOUR 1: AMERICAN CENTRE FOR MOBILITYSponsored by Peracchio & Company, LLC12:00 - 18:00EXHIBITOR MOVE-IN Skyline B19:00 - 20:00VIP RECEPTION (BY INVITATION ONLY) Sponsored by AECOM06:00 - 07:45EXHIBITOR MOVE-IN07:00 - 16:30REGISTRATION OPEN08:00 - 08:45YOUNG PROFESSIONALS REAKFAST Sponsored by Econolite.09:00 - 14:30EXHIBITS OPEN / ON-STREET DEMOS09:00 - 11:30ITS EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES PANEL SESSIONS International Ballrooms A/B Learn more about Cooperative Environments for ITS Emerging Technologies Development and Deployment.10:30 - 11:30MOBILITY AND ALTERNATIVE FUELS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT PANEL International Ballrooms C/D11:30 - 12:30LUNCH BUFFET12:30 - 13:30WOMEN IN MOBILITY Keynotes by Carol Schweiger, President Schweiger Consulting & Johanna Tzanidaki Innovation & Deployment Director ERTICO- ITS EUROPE.Sponsored by Miovision & PBX Engineering13:30 - 14:30W1 - IMPROVEMENTS FOR ENHANCING SPECIFIC MOBILITY OPTIONS AND CONNECTIVITY – SIGNALS International Ballrooms A/B Session format: Panel13:30 - 14:45W2 - SPECIFIC SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE SYSTEM OR THE RIDERS - TRAFFICInternational Ballrooms C/DSession format: Oral Presentation14:00 - 15:30TECHNICAL TOUR 2: INVEST WINDSOR-ESSEX VR CAVE14:45 - 15:15HEALTH BREAK AND NETWORKING WITH EXHIBITORSCoee carts sponsored by Fortran Trac Systems15:15 - 16:15W3 - PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPSInternational Ballrooms A/BSession format: Panel15:15 - 16:30W4 - INTERMODAL DATA COLLECTIONInternational Ballrooms C/D Session format: Oral Presentation15:30 - 16:30W5 - ABSTRACT DEMOS PRESENTATIONSITS Education StageSession format: ITS Education Stage16:30 - 17:15W6 - SPECIFIC SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE SYSTEM OR THE RIDERS - DATAInternational Ballrooms C/DSession format: Oral Presentation18:00 - 20:30EXHIBITOR RECEPTIONAll times [et]Eastern Time

Page 12

Essential ITS Magazine - 12 Issue 02 | 2023June 15, 202306:30 - 07:30GRAFFITI TOUR OR YOGA IN THE PARKSponsored by Aimsun07:00 - 17:00REGISTRATION OPEN07:15 - 08:00“ASK THE EXPERT PROFESSIONALS” Breakfast08:00 - 17:00EXHIBIT OPEN08:00 - 08:45ON-STREET DEMOS08:15 - 09:00PORT OF WINDSOR PRESENTATIONA Maritime ITS demo: In-person demo to show the ability to query and real time radar (RaaS) connecting to CCTV monitoring the port.09:00 - 10:00FREIGHT AND PEOPLE – ONE ITS UMBRELLARichard Easley; President, E-Squared Engineering10:00 - 10:30HEALTH BREAK AND NETWORKING WITH EXHIBITORSCoee carts sponsored by Fortran Trac Systems10:30 - 11:30TH1 - SPECIFIC SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE SYSTEM OR THE RIDERS – SAFETYInternational Ballrooms A/BSession format: Panel10:30 - 11:30TH2 - INNOVATIONS IN BRINGING MOBILITY OPTIONS TOGETHER IIInternational Ballrooms C/DSession format: Panel11:30 - 12:30LUNCH BUFFET12:30 - 13:30KEYNOTES THURSDAYKeynotes by Chad Evans, Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Services, Ontario Northland & Randy Iwasaki, Leader of State and Local Transportation, Amazon Web Services.Sponsored by Black & McDonald13:30 - 14:25TH3 - IMPROVEMENTS FOR ENHANCING SPECIFIC MOBILITY OPTIONS AND CONNECTIVITY – CAVInternational Ballrooms A/BSession format: Oral Presentation13:30 - 14:30TH4 - HIGHWAYS & CORRIDORSInternational Ballrooms C/DSession format: Oral Presentation14:00 - 15:30TECHNICAL TOUR 3: CROSS BORDER INSTITUTE - TRAFFIC RESEARCH CENTRE14:25 - 15:15HEALTH BREAK AND NETWORKING WITH EXHIBITORSCoee carts sponsored by Fortran Trac Systems15:15 - 17:15STUDENT CENTRALInternational Ballrooms C/DSession format: ITS Education Stage18:15 - 21:30BANQUETFeaturing: Candace Carnahan motivational speaker

Page 13

Essential ITS Magazine - 13Issue 02 | 2023June 16, 202307:00 - 09:00REGISTRATION OPEN07:15 - 08:15“ASK THE EXPERT VENDOR” BREAKFAST08:00 - 12:30EXHIBIT OPEN ON-STREET DEMOS UNTIL 11 AM08:30 - 09:45USING TECHNOLOGY FOR GREATER GROWTH - PANEL09:45 - 10:15HEALTH BREAK AND NETWORKING WITH EXHIBITORSCoee carts sponsored by Fortran Trac Systems10:15 - 11:00F1 - INNOVATIONS IN BRINGING MOBILITY OPTIONS TOGETHERInternational Ballrooms A/BSession format: Panel10:15 - 11:00F2 - CROSS-BORDER INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITYInternational Ballrooms C/DSession format: Oral Presentation11:15 - 12:15“WHAT YOU SAID IS NOT WHAT I HEARD”Richard Easley, President E-Squared EngineeringChunpreet Sahota, Structural Engineer WSPSponsored by WSP12:30 - 15:30NEXT GENERATION ITS WORKFORCE SUMMIT - DIVERSITY IN WORKERS’ SKILLS AND OCCUPATIONSIan Steele, Chairman & CEO ITS CanadaRichard Easley, President E-Squared EngineeringSponsored by Kapsch TracCom12:30 - 15:30EXHIBITOR TEARDOWN14:00 - 15:00TECHNICAL TOUR 4: CITY OF WINDSOR - TRAFFIC OPERATIONS CENTRE

Page 14

Essential ITS Magazine - 14 Issue 02 | 2023City of LondonTIMMS, the City of London project also known as the Transportation Intelligent Mobility Management System, has goals for connected infrastructure and to prepare London’s transportation network for the future by installing transit signal priority and other improvements such as video cameras and sensors in major trac corridors.Aecting all major corridors in the city, the project aims to upgrade existing technology including enhanced sensors from intersections, and enabling video streaming. The project also includes a Transportation Management Centre (TMC) where signal timings can be adjusted real-time by sta to improve the ow of trac and coordinate for emergency operations. The TMC shares data with the Transit Management Centre, and the city’s emergency services.TIMMS aims to improve trac ow, reduce delays at intersections, improve transit capacity, safety, and quality, and build infrastructure for connected and automated vehicles.Photo of a collision incident from the new trac cameras that highlights how we can assess the impacts and make changes to the trac signals to support travelers.

Page 15

Essential ITS Magazine - 15Issue 02 | 2023Intelligent TransportationSystems for Safer, Smarter Roads• Incident, Stopped Vehicle, and Queue Detection Systems• Advanced Trac Management Systems (ATMS)• Adaptive Trac Control Systems (ATCS)• Intersection and Highway Management• Large Animal Detection Systems (LADS)www.blackandmcdonald.comSEE MOBILITY THROUGH A NEW LENS.Ready for a safer, more eicient intersection experience? See your corridors in a new light with our AC3 and FE3 cameras! Iconic design meets modern technology. Cubic’s Gridsmart bell and rectilinear cameras that you know and trust are now equipped with High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology for improved visibility and image quality in low-lit areas. Save time, money and upkeep while ensuring a safer and more eicient intersection experience for all vulnerable road users.Upgrade your intersection management with Cubic today!GET THE PICTURE?cubic.com/transportation

Page 16

Essential ITS Magazine - 16 Issue 02 | 2023By: Rachel FrancoCanadians are no strangers to winter weather, but when the snow falls and lakes and rivers freeze, many prefer the warmth of indoor activities to outside adventures. Winnipeg, famous for its moniker “Winterpeg” that many Winnipeggers embrace and see as a badge of honour, also shines for its innovative and inclusive frozen river trails.Where the Assiniboine River and Red River meet is referred to as “The Forks”, and has been a meeting place for over six thousand years. Every winter, mobility trails are maintained on the river ice for a variety of self-propelled transportation.Zach Peters, spokesperson for The Forks, says the most popular forms of transportation are skating and walking, but has seen all kinds of interesting ways to navigate the trails, including cross-country skis, fat bikes, snowshoes, sleds, and ‘ice-cycles’, which combine a bicycle or tricycle on a frame with blades or sled attachments, giving the rider the feeling of biking, skating, and sledding all at the same time.Peters says that the trails will see upwards of fteen thousand people per day, many of whom use the paths to commute to and from work, but most who simply want to enjoy an opportunity to get out in the fresh air and nd a dierent way of moving in the winter months. Over the course of the winter, the trails will have up to three hundred thousand visitors.To better understand how people use the trails, Peters says The Forks employs the ‘eco-counter’. This can help discern how people access the trails, how many people are moving through, and what kinds of transportation are being used.People of all ages and mobilities can access the winter trails at various access points; The Forks has a fully accessible ramp to the river, two access points maintained by the City of Winnipeg, and several ‘desire paths’ made by people at various points throughout the trail’s six kilometres.A Look at the Nestaweya Winter Trails

Page 17

Essential ITS Magazine - 17Issue 02 | 2023The trails are use-at-your-own-risk, but ice quality is monitored daily along all trails for thickness, stability, smoothness, and safety by The Forks safety team. If there is ever a portion of the trail deemed unsafe, it is closed immediately and tended to.Warming Huts were introduced thirteen years ago to oer trail users a nice place to relax, catch their breath, and warm up when the temperatures dip. Every year artists from all over the world compete for their Warming Hut design to be included in this unique Art + Architecture Competition. Artists from Spain, Switzerland, China, the U.S. and Canada and beyond have had their winning designs included along the trail for people to enjoy. There’s even a pop-up ski library run by the Winnipeg Trails Association.For more information visit www.theforks.com

Page 18

Essential ITS Magazine - 18 Issue 02 | 2023A Conversation with Dr. Kim Jones – Associate Professor; Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University, and Chair of Ontario Women in Engineering (ONWiE)The Ontario Network of Women in Engineering (ONWiE) consists of twenty-six schools of engineering from Ontario and across Canada who share resources to support and encourage girls and non-binary youth to pursue careers in engineering. Since its inception in 2005, almost one hundred thousand girls have participated in ONWiE’s various programs, and numbers have been on the rise since 2020.Dr. Kim Jones, Chair of ONWiE for the past ve years, and whose term has been renewed for another three, says that exposing young women and non-binary folks to paths in engineering is important for the world around us, as diverse teams solve dierent problems. Distinct and varied lived experiences allow for dierent approaches to design when a variety of voices can contribute to better outcomes and solutions that may benet more members of society.She also recognizes that engineering elds have great jobs with some of the smallest pay gaps. Encouraging young women to enter educational engineering streams, and providing them opportunities to engage in these elds is a great thing.Jones is driven to continue using math and science as tools to make the world a better place, and takes pride in her role in the organization and the impact it has on girls as young as four and ve, through elementary, high school, university, and beyond. Former participants in the ONWiE programs still approach Jones to let her know how much of an impact it has had on their lives and career paths.19%21% 21%24% 24%25%26%2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021“Hearing from individuals about their experiences in engineering and how their trajectories have changed as a consequence of some of the work I’ve done is something that gets me up in the morning and keeps me going.”Percentage of women in undergrad on-wide

Page 19

Essential ITS Magazine - 19Issue 02 | 2023Interested in learning more and getting involved?ONWiE is happy to feature new ambassadors and role models, and always appreciates event sponsors. There is an in-person summit in Hamilton in November to bring together industry professionals and university students to learn from research on how to create more diverse environments. For summit sponsorship, and event participation, reach out to your nearest University Faculty of Engineering, and visit onwie.caEesha Sharma is one such individual. In her second year of Chemical Engineering with a dual-degree in Articial Intelligence Systems Engineering at Western University, Eesha’s involvement in ONWiE programming as a girl helped carve a path to pursue engineering. Eesha serves as Engineering Student Ambassador for Western University, as well as being involved as a mentor for Western Engineering’s Big Sister Little Sister program, and she was the Team Lead in building the Chem-E-Car; a small car powered only on chemical reactions.It’s this kind of full-circle impetus that creates positive experiences and avenues for other young women to consider a career path in engineering, and to help foster enthusiasm about math and science in their peers and younger generations.

Page 20

Essential ITS Magazine - 20 Issue 02 | 2023Miovision Detection SolutionsMiovision is a global leader in trafﬁc detection, helping cities manage mobility effectively.• Build and manage your complete mobility management system with Miovision Detection.• Simple and easy installation at the intersection for a platform that is scalable and customizable. Miovision PerformanceMiovision AdaptiveMiovision Core DCMUpgrade your trafﬁc infrastructure with our signal performance software that identiﬁes and prioritizes signal timing and maintenance issues. With the help of machine learning algorithms, the solution continuously processes trafﬁc data to proactively address potential problems before they escalate.Miovision’s Adaptive technology dynamically adjusts to changes in trafﬁc conditions, continuously optimizing trafﬁc ﬂow in real-time.Stinson ITS is a Manufacturer, Distributor, and System Integrator of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). We provide turnkey trafﬁc safety & efﬁciency solutions, including trafﬁc sensors, warning systems, road safety devices, work zone safety systems, and central management software.Contact Stinson to ﬁnd out how your city can beneﬁt from real-time, multimodal trafﬁc optimization www.stinsonits.ca

Essential ITS vol 2

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4