Sample of Current Research Projects:
| Funding Agency |
Award Date |
Duration |
Title |
| MTO and Transport Canada | 2005 | 1 yr | Assessment of wireless monitoring of network-wide road traffic conditions |
| Ontario Ministry of Transportation | 2005 | 1 yr | Safety and operational impacts of variable speed limits on freeways |
| NSERC Discovery Grant | 2005 | 5 yrs | Advancing Traffic Monitoring and Management Theory and Practice |
| Transport Canada and Region of Waterloo | 2004 | 3 yrs | Urban Transportation Showcase Program: – Central Transit Corridor: Monitoring and Evaluation |
| Transport Canada and IBI Group | 2004 | 1 yr | Survey of Canadian ATIS Architecture |
| Ontario Ministry of Transportation | 2004 | 1 yr | Quantifying Effects of Winter Storms on Highway Safety and Mobility |
| Transport Canada |
2004 |
1 yr |
Development and demonstration of a system for using cell-phones as traffic probes |
Sample of Current Dissertation Research Topics:
MASc
Assessing the benefits of variable speed
limits on freeways
(P. Allaby)
PhD
Wide area traffic network conditions
monitoring using cell phones
(P. Izadpanah)
Transit Signal Priority: Quantifying traffic
and environmental impacts
(Z. Abdy)
Using mobile phone location tracking as a data source for ATIS
(H. Takada)
Estimating the delay cost of freeway crashes
(J. Noh)
Sample of Recent Dissertation Research Topics:
MASc
Estimating travel times in work zones
(X. Wang)
Predicting the duration of freeway crashes
(M. Alamillo de Ibarrola)
A method of quantitative decision making for
sustainability of transportation
(R. McNally)
PhD
Proactive Vehicle Crash Prevention on Instrumented Freeways
Using Real-Time Traffic Control
(C. Lee)