Thursday, December 17, 2015
In this article written for TAC News, Heide Schlegl, Coordinator, Traffic & Parking at the Town of Milton and Ali Khan, Supervisor, Traffic, Parking & By-laws, City of Welland, write about how the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games impacted transportation services in their communities. Prepared on behalf of the TAC Small Municipalities Task...
Thursday, December 17, 2015
The report from the completed Synthesis of Transportation Asset Management Best Practices for Canada project is being prepared as a Transportation Association of Canada’s (TAC) publication.
Advanced by the Asset Management Task Force, the synthesis was developed to share information about asset management practices between Canadian transportation...
Thursday, December 17, 2015
A project to develop a warrant system for rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFBs), aimed at improving pedestrian safety at crosswalks, has been launched by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC).
TAC’s manuals and guidelines, such as the Pedestrian Crossing Control Guide (2012), include an array of traffic control devices intended to...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) has released the Sustainability Considerations for Bridges Guide (2015) in the TAC Bookstore.
The guide, offered at $225 for TAC members and $299 for non-members (order code PTM-SCBG-E), helps transportation agencies and bridge professionals improve the sustainable benefits of their projects and communicate them...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Did you know that The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) offers a job postings service for organizations seeking transportation professionals and technologists?
TAC member organizations may access the service for free, while non-member organizations are charged $325 per job posting. Ads may be placed for a period of up to 30 days.
Ads are...
Monday, December 7, 2015
The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) welcomes its newest members - Carmanah Technologies Corp. (Victoria, British Columbia) and the Township of Stirling-Rawdon (Stirling, Ontario).
The City of Waterloo, in partnership with Region of Waterloo, has installed a fully-actuated bicycle cross-ride system at Erb Street and Peppler Street at the edge of the...
Friday, December 4, 2015
This periodic column features notices from people working in the transportation and road-related industries.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal cabinet included the Honourable Marc Garneau as Minister of Transport, the first Canadian astronaut to fly in space and former head of the Canadian Space Agency, and the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi as...
Friday, November 27, 2015
The Chief Engineers’ Council of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) is recommending the development of a new project on safety impacts of bicycle infrastructure in Canada.
Several bicycle facility planning and design guidelines and resources already exist, including the Traffic Signal Guidelines for Bicycles (2014) and Bikeway Traffic Control...
Friday, November 27, 2015
A project to develop a guideline about defining and measuring traffic congestion has been launched by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC).
A key rationale for investing in transportation infrastructure is to avoid, reduce and manage traffic congestion.
Uniform methods and data sources to measure congestion do not currently exist, and the definition...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
On October 9, 2015, the Québec Government launched its new Transportation Electrification Action Plan (TEAP) for 2015-2020, under the theme Propelling Québec Forward with Electricity.
In this contribution to TAC News, Martin Hotte, Sustainable Development and Intelligent Transportation Systems Service, Planning Division, ministère des Transports...
Monday, November 16, 2015
Reports from three recently-completed projects were approved by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)’s Urban Transportation Council at the 2015 Fall Meetings.
The publications that result from the following projects will be made available by TAC over the course of the coming months. Notices regarding their release...
Monday, November 16, 2015
The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2016 Scholarship Program until Monday, February 29.
The program supports and encourages bright, young college and university (undergraduate and graduate) students pursuing studies and a career in transportation, in particular the planning, design, construction,...