Restoring Fish Passage to a Tributary of the Saugeen River
A concrete open footing culvert located on Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) Highway 21 near Southampton, Ontario, and within the Saugeen First Nation Reserve #29 (see Appendix A), had...
Session title: 2017 Environmental Achievement Award Nominations
Organizers: Environment Council, Environmental Issues Management Standing Committee
Authors: Houston, K.
2017
Rising to the Challenge: From Concept through Construction Repairs of the Existing Taylor Rd. (Callender Hamilton Through Truss Type) Bridge Grand Falls-Windsor, NL
The Callender Hamilton through truss bridge crosses the Exploits River in Grand Falls-Windsor, NL, and serves as a vital link for both industry and the public in the area. In January 2016, a heavy...
Session title: Structures
Organizers: Structures Standing Committee
Authors: Pottie, W.
2017
Roughness degradation models of flexible pavements subjected to seasonal frost action
In cold regions, flexible pavements are constantly submitted to the effects of repeated traffic loads combined with the climate effect. The frost heave of the subgrade soils due to formation of...
Session title: Testing and Modeling of Road and Embankment Materials
Organizers: Soils and Materials Standing Committee
Authors: Sylvestre, O., Bilodeau, J-P., Doré, G.
2017
Solutions to Driver Errors at Multi-Lane Roundabouts
Session title: Human Factors and Road Safety Culture
Organizers: Road Safety Standing Committee
Authors: Weber, P., Tanaka, K., Henderson, B.
2017
Some Recent Environmental Pavement Technologies – Fact or Fiction
The roadbuilding industry has been working towards environmental stewardship in many aspects of pavement construction. As an example, almost 100% of reclaimed asphalt pavement is recycled and used...
Session title: Emerging Environmental Technologies
Organizers: Environmental Issues Management Standing Committee
Authors: Johnston, A., Riessner, M., Luo, C.
2017
Surrogate Safety and Network Screening: Modelling Crash Frequency Using GPS Data and Latent Gaussian Models
Improving road safety requires two steps of network screening and site diagnosis, which both require safety to be objectively quantified. In the screening phase, sites are identified and...
Session title: Innovations in Road Safety Session
Organizers: Road Safety Standing Committee
Authors: Stipancic, J., Miranda-Moreno, L., Saunier, N., Labbe, A.
2017
Survey of Current Asphalt Binder Extraction and Recovery Practices
In the context of a literature study for the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, a survey was conducted on asphalt binder extraction and recovery, with government agencies and research...
Session title: Testing and Modeling of Road and Embankment Materials
Organizers: Soils and Materials Standing Committee
Authors: Mikhailenko, P.
2017
Ten Years of Edmonton’s North East Roads Program
In 1999 roadways in four north east Edmonton neighbourhoods began to show significant
structural failures earlier than expected. As a result of continued roadway failures a study was...
Session title:
Organizers: Pavements Standing Committee
Authors: Foth, M., Donovan, H.
2017
The Evolution of Roundabouts in Newfoundland
Roundabouts have become increasingly common on Canada’s roads since the 1990’s, however, Newfoundland and Labrador has been slower to adopt roundabouts as a means of intersection...
Session title: Geometric Design – Emerging Issues
Organizers: Geometric Design Standing Committee
Authors: MacDonald, M., Allaire, F.
2017
This is a Plug: TAC’S Electric Vehicle Sign Package
Due to the proMoTIion of sustainable transportation by various government agencies
and the private sector, many electric vehicle (EV) signage initiatives were taken in the
...
Session title: Building Tomorrow’s Traffic Control Devices
Organizers: Traffic Operations & Management Standing Committee
Authors: Beaulieu, D.
2017