CTRF 2025

CTRF 2025

Welcome to CTRF’s 60th Annual Conference! Enjoy Ottawa

2:10pm EDT

Enhancing transit smart card destination estimation algorithm using count data Desmarais 3105

3:00pm EDT

Registration Desk Open Desmarais Foyer

6:00pm EDT

President's Reception Desmarais 12102

7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Desmarais Foyer Registration Desk Open Desmarais Foyer

8:00am EDT

Welcome remarks and announcements Desmarais 1160

8:15am EDT

Plenary I: Canadian Supply Chains: How will our definition of a "productive" supply chain evolve in the future? Desmarais 1160

10:00am EDT

Coffee Break & Poster Sessions Desmarais Foyer

10:30am EDT

Measuring Air Connectivity: The What, How, and Why Desmarais 1160 Five Years of the Accessible Transportation for Persons with Disabilities Regulations: Outcomes and Opportunities Desmarais 1140 Sensitivity analysis of historical bus travel times and improving travel time estimations in bus scheduling Desmarais 3105 Integrated decision-making for residential, workplace, and work modality choices in two-worker households Desmarais 1130

10:50am EDT

The impact of Canadian foreign policy on bilateral passenger air traffic Desmarais 1160 Ethical implications of autonomous vehicles in the urban context: A trolley problem perspective Desmarais 1140 Exploring individual perceptions of autonomous transit: A stated choice modelling approach Desmarais 3105 Has anything changed yet? Insights from Okanagan travel survey Desmarais 1130

11:10am EDT

Sustainable ecotourism and airship travel Desmarais 1160 Measuring the "age-friendliness" of a community: Evaluation of audit guides for supporting engineering decision-making Desmarais 1140 Typology of bus routes and demand variability: Combined insights from land use and route features Desmarais 3105 Developing a joint discrete-continuous machine learning model for travel mode and trip departure: A multi-task learning approach Desmarais 1130

11:30am EDT

Access to destinations in the Canadian North: A case study of Yellowknife Desmarais 1160 Using GPS-supported prompted recall-based travel diaries to understand the travel behaviour of persons with a mobility disability in New Brunswick, Canada Desmarais 1140 Assessing the impact of major public transit service changes on travel behaviors Desmarais 3105 How can land developers contribute more to reducing single-occupancy vehicle use? Desmarais 1130

11:50am EDT

Paving the way for a sustainable interregional transportation system in Québec Desmarais 1160 Piloting an optimization approach for demand responsive paratransit services in New Brunswick, Canada Desmarais 1140 Canada needs more people (To ride the bus) Desmarais 3105 Do improvements in sustainable mobility systems drive changes in car ownership? Desmarais 1130

12:10pm EDT

Assessing individual perceptions of using futuristic modes for Kelowna International Airport: A structural equation modeling approach Desmarais 1160 Optimizing accessible bus stop distribution - A case of equity-driven transit design for the City of Ottawa Desmarais 1140 Network-wide transfer synchronization strategies in a public bus system with real-time data Desmarais 3105 Is one-day travel data enough? A comparative analysis of 1-day and 7-day data in BC Desmarais 1130

12:35pm EDT

Lunch Hall Huguette Labelle (Tabaret)

1:30pm EDT

Networks in Canadian transportation – do they create barriers to entry? Desmarais 1160 Activity-based models and their democratization: the new age of transportation planning Desmarais 1130 Innovative tool for spatial data fusion and analysis in transportation Desmarais 3105 Environmental assessment of housing and mobility at the local level - a review of studies Desmarais 1140

1:50pm EDT

Networks in Canadian transportation and competition Desmarais 1160 How do we spend time in the virtual and physical spaces: Does it vary by worker profile? Desmarais 1130 Investigating the accuracy, transferability and efficiency of different mode imputation methods with GPS data Desmarais 3105 Air emission analysis of the low emission zone policy towards heavy-duty diesel trucks restriction in downtown Desmarais 1140

2:10pm EDT

Strengthening supply chains in Canada: Data development and insights Desmarais 1160 Efficient modeling of passenger flows: A simplified passenger demand model Desmarais 1130 Evaluating the spatial transferability of an agent-based integrated urban model Desmarais 3105 Unlocking the potential of cargo bikes for urban deliveries in medium-sized cities Desmarais 1140

2:30pm EDT

What matters for Canadian aviation policy? A mixed-method multi-stakeholder approach to identifying objectives for policy alternatives Desmarais 1160 Understanding job mobility and why people change jobs Desmarais 1130 What happens when smartphone GPS data fails? Reconstructing lost travel sequences in 7-day diaries using subsequence pattern mining algorithm Desmarais 3105 Emission reduction potential of urban bike-sharing systems Desmarais 1140

2:50pm EDT

Port infrastructure needs assessment of Canadian port authorities Desmarais 1160 Advancing pedestrian level-of-service estimation with intelligent vision detection systems Desmarais 1130 Event-Aware Missing Data Imputation Network (EMDIN): Leveraging social event features for enhanced traffic data imputation Desmarais 3105 Multiscale spatial analysis of on-road emissions Desmarais 1140

3:10pm EDT

Developments by North American freight railways to reduce and eventually eliminate GHG emissions from locomotives Desmarais 1160 Modelling the variability in Halifax residents' time-use behaviour for work, shopping and recreational activities Desmarais 1130

3:35pm EDT

Coffee Break & Networking Desmarais Foyer

3:45pm EDT

Pre/Post pandemic travel behaviour in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Desmarais 1130 Decarbonizing Canadian airports: an optimization model for a strategic supply of hydrogen Desmarais 1160 Empowering transportation and mobility decisions: A showcase of tools developed by the mobility chair Desmarais 1140 Supply Chains and Logistics Research Committee Desmarais 3105

4:05pm EDT

The post-pandemic hybrid work environment and its impacts on weekly trip-making behavior Desmarais 1130 Sustainable aviation fuel in Canada: Opportunities and obstacles Desmarais 1160 How is accessibility considered in land use and transport policy documents across governance sectors? Desmarais 1140

4:25pm EDT

The resilience and recovery of car-sharing after the COVID-19 pandemic Desmarais 1130 Incorporating marginal emission factor into eco-conscious air itinerary selection Desmarais 1160 Understanding individual’s ownership of mobility tools considering the influence of shared mobility services: A multivariate probit modeling approach Desmarais 3105

4:45pm EDT

The lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban transportation systems: A case study of on-street parking in Toronto Desmarais 1130 Incorporating climate change impacts into aviation demand forecasting Desmarais 1160 Development of a vehicle ownership simulator within an agent-based integrated urban model Desmarais 1140

5:05pm EDT

Role of teleworking intentions in post-COVID-19 travel behavior Desmarais 1130 Air passenger willingness to pay for carbon offsets: An incentivized experiment Desmarais 1160 Computational efficiency in integrated urban models: A comparative analysis of loop-based and vectorized approaches Desmarais 1140

6:00pm EDT

Bison Transport Reception & Debate Pacific Room, National Arts Centre

7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast & CTRF Annual General Meeting Desmarais 1160

7:30am EDT

Registration Desk Open Desmarais Foyer

10:00am EDT

Coffee Break & Networking Desmarais Foyer

10:15am EDT

Sustainability and Equity Research Committee Desmarais 3105

12:20pm EDT

Lunch Hall Huguette Labelle (Tabaret) Kim Baird: Forging New Routes: Reconciliation and Innovation in Transportation for Sustainable Supply Chains Hall Huguette Labelle (Tabaret)

2:30pm EDT

InvestOttawa Area X.O testing facility InvestOttawa Area X.O testing facility NRC Centre for Air Travel Research NRC Centre for Air Travel Research Transportation Safety Board labs Transportation Safety Board labs Workshop: Creating impact with research Desmarais 1140 Workshop: National Travel Survey Data: Supply Chain and Household Desmarais 1130

6:30pm EDT

Annual Conference Dinner Pacific Room, National Arts Centre

7:30am EDT

Continental Breakfast & Preview of 2026 Halifax Conference Desmarais 1160 Registration Desk Open Desmarais Foyer

8:15am EDT

Plenary II: People Mobility: What is the future of "productive" people mobility? Desmarais 1160

8:30am EDT

Route choice behavior analysis of truck drivers using data-driven methods Desmarais 1140 What makes other path users uncomfortable sharing with micro mobility devices? Investigating open-ended comments using structural topic modelling Desmarais 1130 Analyzing the relationship between on-street parking and land-use Desmarais 1130 Urban and Rural Transportation Planning and Modelling Committee Desmarais 3105

8:50am EDT

Creating electrical charging profiles for heavy-duty vehicle charging in Ontario using real-world GPS data Desmarais 1140 A minimalist algorithm for growing safe cycling networks Desmarais 1130 A tool for inference and extraction of off-street parking capacity Desmarais 1160

9:10am EDT

Effectiveness of VRU-hazard anticipation training on novice truck Driver VRU hazard anticipation skills Desmarais 1140 Impact damage detectability of composite structures on advanced air mobility Desmarais 1130 Using data fusion to model parking location choices of trucks in the City of Toronto Desmarais 1160

9:30am EDT

Integrating RPAS with public transportation systems for efficient last-mile deliver Desmarais 1140 A bikeability index for last-mile electric cargo cycles Desmarais 1130 Analysis of reservation changes for a carsharing service in Greater Montreal Desmarais 1160 Joint Research committee meeting Desmarais 3105

9:50am EDT

Improving the safety of RPAS operations in urban areas with simulated dynamic and static corridor design Desmarais 1140 AI-Based predictive modeling for e-commerce vehicle classification in neighbourhoods Desmarais 1130 Enhancing on-street parking occupancy prediction with spatio temporal graph neural networks integrating exogenous factors Desmarais 1160

10:15am EDT

Coffee Break & Networking Desmarais Foyer

10:30am EDT

Enhancing transportation data: The development of a national origin and destination survey and its potential for policy and infrastructure planning Desmarais 1160 Electric power grid challenges with high EV penetration Desmarais 1130 Cyclist route choice model: Integrating energy expenditure preferences for enhanced network design Desmarais 1130 The significant impacts of work stoppages in Canada's transportation sector Desmarais 1140 How school drop-offs lock parents into car-based commutes Desmarais 1140 Leveraging AI in the transportation sector: Where to start Desmarais 1160

10:50am EDT

Studying transit productivity through a didactic cartography tool Desmarais 1160 Planning the future of charging infrastructure and electricity demand for long-haul electric vehicles in Ontario, Canada under various scenarios Desmarais 1130 Travel behaviour impacts of British Columbia’s e-bike rebate program Desmarais 1130 Labour disruptions: will there be a long-term solution? Desmarais 1140 Traveler typology to understand transit route choice Desmarais 1140

11:00am EDT

Trucking Research Committee Desmarais 3105

11:10am EDT

Human-centered mobility flow classification: Examining the difference between travel patterns of men and women Desmarais 1160 Electric vehicle charging behaviour: An analysis of gap times between charging events in the City of Ottawa Desmarais 1130 Longitudinal dynamic analysis of covid-19 on travel behavior in Canada and China Desmarais 1130 From Prairie landmarks to mega hubs: The good, the bad, and the ugly of grain elevator consolidation in Canada Desmarais 1140 Decoding multi-modal usage patterns and temporal dynamics in the Greater Montreal Area Desmarais 1140 Global best practices and lessons for regional fare integration in Canada Desmarais 1160

11:30am EDT

Comparing urban public transit accessibility across Canadian regions and times Desmarais 1160 Electric vehicles and charging infrastructure: Assessing prevalence and provision in Canada Desmarais 1130 Assessing walking accessibility to metro stations: the case of Montreal, Canada Desmarais 1130 Assessing the sustainability of shortline rail for local grain transportation in Canada Desmarais 1140 Even in New York, the car rules the street: Inequality in street space allocation Desmarais 1140 An approach to integrating the assessment of transit-oriented development and supportive infrastructure into the transit business case process Desmarais 1160

11:50am EDT

Not My Fault - A look at Canadian Airline Policy and how it impacts the affordability of airfares Desmarais 1160 Overhead wires might be back: Optimizing in-motion charging for electric bus transit Desmarais 1130 Cross-border freight transportation – trucking between Canada and the US Desmarais 1140 Awards Lunch & Closing Remarks Desmarais 1160

12:10pm EDT

The case of 20-minute carsharing trips: What drives the choice? Desmarais 1160 Solar-Powered charging stations for E-Bikes: A case study in the City of Vancouver, Canada Desmarais 1130 Cross-border transportation of pharmaceuticals between the United States and Ontario Desmarais 1140

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