Linda Lee

Panel Organizers:

• Roger Browne, Director, Congestion and Network Management, City of Toronto
• Yeatland Wong, Director of Smart Mobility, Transnomis Solutions Inc.

Moderators: Roger Browne, City of Toronto, and Yeatland Wong, Transnomis Solutions

Panelists:

Dave Greenfield, Chief Information Officer, Halifax Harbour Bridges

• Linda Lee, Senior Engineer, City of Toronto
• Ahmed Ali, Transportation Engineering Manager, City of Lethbridge
• Alexander Godfrey, National Sales Manager, GGI Road & Traffic
• Elizabeth Loder, Associate PM, Weather Consulting Lead, WSP

From floods and icy snowstorms, severe weather preparedness is a challenging feat for municipalities across Canada. This panel of municipal and transportation leaders will walk through how they plan for, respond to, and manage traffic during snowstorms, flooding, high winds, freezing rain, and low-visibility events. Hear how they gather data, prioritize critical routes and structures, push travel information to the public, and use data and intelligent traffic systems to make faster, safer decisions.

Exploring solutions such as Variable Speed Limits, RWIS data technology, VMS message automation, and Advanced Traveler Information Systems, you’ll see how better situational awareness, cross-department coordination, and proactive communication with travelers can keep people and goods moving – even when the weather doesn’t cooperate.

Panel Organizers:

• Janis Chow, General Supervisor of Signals & Street Lighting, City of Edmonton
• Yeatland Wong, Director of Smart Mobility, Transnomis Solutions Inc.

Moderators: Yeatland Wong, Transnomis Solutions, and Janis Chow, City of Edmonton

Panelists:

Linda Lee, Senior Engineer, City of Toronto

• 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

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.

Organized by Phil Masters, Vice President, Masters & Associates

Panelists:

• Lucy Lai ,Director, Product Marketing, SMATS Traffic Solutions
• Linda Lee, Manager (A), Traffic Event Management Planning, City of Toronto 
• Sameer Patil, TMC Leader, Traffic Services, City of Calgary
• Craig Smith, Director Enterprise, Geospatial, TomTom

Crowdsourced probe vehicle data is traffic data collected without roadside equipment from car and cell phone location data. This data has been available for many years and has typically been used to provide travel time-based traffic condition information on map systems. However, this data has continued to improve in availability, coverage and accuracy. Currently, systems use location information from navigation apps which collect location fixes at a much higher rate that a phone that is on but not running location apps. This high-definition data can provide more accurate data that can be used for a range of functions such as real time modal splits, incident detection and border delays. This panel will explore the current capabilities of crowdsourced probe data and its readiness for use in more real time operations.

The panel will take the format of a fireside chat, starting with brief statements from each of the panel members but will focus on discussion based on questions from the audience and moderator.

Discussion Points

• What are some examples of new real time applications of probe data?
• What impacts the accuracy of probe data for given roadways/locations?
• What are the criteria for acceptability of probe data for specific traffic management strategies?
• What are the advantages of probe data over hardware-based approaches?