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Congratulations to Musharraf Khan for successful defense of PhD thesis
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!
Musharraf’s virtual PhD thesis defence
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.
A mobile lab to study driver behaviour under adverse road-weather conditions
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.
Congratulations to Ryutaro Hirose on successful defense of MSc thesis
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!
Ryutaro’s virtual defense
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.
TRBAM 2022 poster presentation
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.
Funded PhD Positions Available
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.
Post‐Doctoral Researcher in Transportation Engineering, University of Manitoba (filled)
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.
Congratulations to Zi Wang on successful defense of MSc thesis
On August 17, Zi Wang successfully defended his MSc thesis titled “Evaluation of the Automated Speed Enforcement Program of the City of Regina”.
Ph.D. position in Artificial Intelligence / Deep Learning / Reinforcement Learning for Transportation Systems (filled)
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.
Poster presentation at 99th TRB Annual Meeting
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)
Presentation at 15th World Conference on Transportation Research
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.
Congratulations to Navoda Rillagodage on successful defense of MSc thesis
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”.
We moved!
As of July 1, 2018 our research group has moved to the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Manitoba.
Professor Oguchi’s visit
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.
Congratulations to Vikas Ravada on successful defense of MSc thesis
On June 23, Vikas Ravada successfully defended his MSc thesis titled “Seasonal Traffic Counts for Accurate Estimation of Truck AADT and Vehicle Classification”.
Cherry Ding and Zi Wang presented their research
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
PhD positions available (filled)
PhD positions are available to conduct research on traffic operations. Applicants with the following qualifications are preferred: 1) BSc in Civil Engineering or closely related areas (Min. GPA 80%), 2) MSc in Transportation Engineering or closely related areas (Min. GPA 80 %), and 3) Computer programming skills (e.g. MATLAB, Python, R). If interested please submit your CV, transcripts, and a short statement by email to babak.mehran@uregina.ca
Babak Mehran
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Manitoba
E1 - 446 EITC, 15 Gillson Street
Winnipeg MB R3T 5V6