Today, Musharraf Khan successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Ranking of Hazardous Materials Facility Siting through Routing Evaluation considering Transportation Preferences and Risk”. Well done Dr. Khan!
Thank you Dr. Uday Venkatadri Pani, Dr. Qingjin Peng, Dr. Jonathan Regehr, and Dr. Behzad Kordi for your help with Musharraf’s PhD thesis examination.
Last week our mobile road-weather and traffic monitoring facility finally arrived on a rainy day! It is a set of state-of-the-art sensors mounted on a trailer enabling concurrent collection of road-weather and vehicle-by-vehicle traffic data from any roadside location. This unique facility will enable accurate investigation of driver behaviour under adverse road-weather conditions to develop effective strategies to improve the operations, safety, and resilience of highway transportation in cold regions.
On August 10, Ryutaro Hirose successfully defended his MSc thesis titled “Investigating the Impacts of Adverse Road-Weather Conditions on Saturation Headway”. Well done Ryutaro!
Thank you Dr. Agnivesh Pani, Dr. Prasanta Sahu, Dr. Reza Omrani and Dr. Jonathan Regehr for your help with Ryutaro’s research.
Learn more about Ryutaro’s research recently published in TRR.
Today, Ryutaro Hirose presented a paper titled “Investigating Combined Impact of Adverse Road-weather Conditions and Heavy Vehicles on Saturation Headway” in 2022 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
Several PhD positions are available for research in interdisciplinary area of transportation engineering and artificial intelligence at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Manitoba. Applicants with MSc in transportation engineering, industrial engineering, artificial intelligence or closely related areas with demonstrated experience in applications of machine learning in engineering are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to applicants who can start their program of study as soon as possible. If interested, please send your CV and cover letter by email to babak.mehran@umanitoba.ca. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by the end of December 2021.
The position is for a post‐doctoral researcher in transportation engineering, with expertise in freight transportation systems (trucking), traffic engineering, and transportation data analysis. The position is available immediately, with an anticipated term of 12 months. The successful candidate will report to Dr. Jonathan Regehr, P.Eng. and alternately to Dr. Babak Mehran, P.Eng., Department of Civil Engineering. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with student researchers at the graduate and undergraduate levels, other collaborating engineering professors, and industry professionals.
Please see position details for more information.
On August 17, Zi Wang successfully defended his MSc thesis titled “Evaluation of the Automated Speed Enforcement Program of the City of Regina”.
This is an interdisciplinary position at the intersection of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and transportation systems. The Ph.D. student will work on research projects focused on developing innovative machine learning solutions for optimizing the operations of an electric autonomous vehicle-based transit system such as inferring trip characteristics, modeling trip choices, placement of charging stations along with reinforcement learning for optimizing the choice of system parameters.
Please see Position Details for more information.
Sushreeta Mishra presented a paper titled “Analytical Modelling of Semi- Flexible Transit System: Effect of Service Delivery Type on Operating Cost Efficiency and Critical Passenger Demand” at 99th TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
From left to right: Dr. Wael Alhajyaseen (Qatar University), Sushreeta Mishra (University of Manitoba)
A paper titled “Analysis of the Relationship between Adverse Road-Weather Conditions and Free-Flow Speed on Highways” was presented in 15th WCTR conference held in IIT Bombay, India.
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On November 14, Navoda Rillagodage successfully defended her MSc thesis titled “Evaluation of the Impacts of Adverse Road-Weather Conditions on Free-flow Speed and Lane Utilization Patterns of Vehicles”.
As of July 1, 2018 our research group has moved to the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Manitoba.
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On November 3rd, Professor Takashi Oguchi visited U of R and gave a very interesting talk on autonomous driving initiatives in Japan. Professor Oguchi is the director of Traffic Engineering Lab at the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo.
On June 23, Vikas Ravada successfully defended his MSc thesis titled “Seasonal Traffic Counts for Accurate Estimation of Truck AADT and Vehicle Classification”.
Zi and Cherry presented their research in Spring Session of CITE Saskatchewan Section on April 26, 2017.
Presentation title for Zi: City of Regina Automated Speed Enforcement Program
Presentation title for Cherry: Feasibility of Demand Responsive Bus Services in Low Demand Areas