Panel Organizers:
- Janis Chow, General Supervisor of Signals & Street Lighting, City of Edmonton
- Yeatland Wong, Director of Smart Mobility, Transnomis Solutions Inc.
Moderators: Arif Rafiq, Esri Canada, and Janis Chow, City of Edmonton
Panelists:
- Jonathan Hamel-Nunes, Division Manager, Innovation and Travel Management, City of Montreal
- Sharath Mysore Narasimhamurthy, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Calgary
- Michael Vaudan, Sr. Operations Engineer, City of Edmonton
- Peter Short, Sales and Operations Manager, Velociti Innovations
- Raphael Dumas Team Lead, Data Operations, City of Toronto
Traffic monitoring has evolved well beyond traditional loop detectors and tube counts. Today, agencies have access to radar and lidar sensors, AI-powered video analytics, connected vehicle data, probe data from navigation apps, and crowdsourced information—each offering different strengths, coverage, and costs.
This panel takes a practical look at emerging traffic monitoring technologies and how Canadian agencies are putting them to work. Panelists from public, academic, and private sectors will discuss the need for traffic monitoring, the challenges, solutions, and real-world deployments, comparing the accuracy, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of different approaches. They’ll explore how agencies integrate multiple data sources to build a more complete picture of network conditions—and the challenges of managing, fusing, and making sense of all that data.
