ACGM 2018 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

(adjustment to the program will be made leading up to the conference)

Time Sunday, June 17 2018

9:00 AM – 4:45 PM

Oakes North/Foyer

Exhibitor Move-In

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Oakes Foyer

Registration

Oakes Foyer

11:00 AM – 1.30 PM

Peninsula

Education Roundtable - organized by Prof. Ilham Benyahia, Chair Education Committee

Click here for the Education Roundtable outline telephone number to be provided

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Peninsula

ITS Canada Technical Committee updates – all members are welcome

5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Peninsula

ITS Canada General Meeting - agenda

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Oakes North/Foyer

Welcome reception sponsored by Parsons

Welcome remarks – Mr. Chris Philp, Chair & CEO ITS Canada

Welcome remarks – Jeff Smart and William Greenham, Co-Chairs Exhibitor Committee

Time Monday, June 18, 2018

7:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Oakes Foyer

Registration

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Oakes North/Foyer

Exhibit Open

7:15 AM – 8:15 AM

Oakes South

Breakfast sponsored by CIMA+

8:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Oakes South

Opening Plenary – “Mobility 2030: Bridging Innovation and a Green Future” moderated by Mara Bullock, WSP Group

Canada

Welcome – Mr. Chris Philp, Chair & CEO ITS Canada

Welcome – Ms. Mara Bullock and Mr. Nick Rosati, Co-Chairs ACGM 2018

Welcome – Mr. Alan Caslin, Chair, Niagara Region

Opening Plenary Panelists:

Mr. Pepper Harward, Vice President of Transit Solutions, Routematch Software

Mr. Ross McKenzie, Managing Director, Waterloo Automotive Research Center (WatCAR)

Dr. Sarah Wells, Executive Director, Transportation Association of Canada

9:45 AM – 10.30 AM

Oakes North/Foyer

Break and Networking with Exhibitors sponsored by Black & McDonald

10:30 AM – noon

Hennepin South

M1 Insights from CAV Deployments

Moderated by Gregg Loane, City of Toronto

1. Operational Considerations for Connected Vehicle Services Case Study: H407 Connected Vehicle Pilot – Steve

Sprouffske, Kapsch

2. Connect Vehicle Pilot Success in Ottawa – Eco Drive I2V Proof of Concept Project –Greg Kent, City of Ottawa, Andrew

Thompson, Thompson Technologies, Prof Ata Khan, Carleton University, Thomas Bauer, Traffic Technology Solutions,

Angelo Pilla , Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

3. San Diego I-15 ATDM/DMA Testbed Evaluation Results for Connected Vehicles Applications – Pascal Volet, Aimsun

4. Potentials of a Centralized Real-time Traffic Management System for CAV Applications - Farid Mobasser, Fortran

Time Monday, June 18, 2018

10:30 AM – noon

Peninsula

M2 ITS in a Green Future

Moderated by Richard B. Easley, E-Squared Engineering

1. Development of a Multi-Year Urban GHG Emission Inventory through Spatio-Temporal Traffic Counts Prediction - Dr.

Arman Ganji, Maryam Shekarrizfard, Eric Miller, Baher Abdulhai, Matt Roorda, Marianne Hatzopoulou, University of

Toronto

2. Off-Grid Power for ITS - Moving to An Efficient, Resilient, and Green Future – Jack Stickel, Alaska Department of

Transportation and Public Facilities (retired)

3. Using Big Traffic Data to Estimate Vehicle Emissions in Real Time – Anjie Liu, Matthew Muresan, Dr. Liping Fu, University

of Waterloo

4. Accessibility and Asset Management – A Match Made in the Cloud- Jim Sheehan, North Line

5. Implementation of various ITS and Advanced Vehicle Technologies in YRT/VIVA - Igor Zaslavsky, Pri Uthayakumar, York

Region

Noon – 1:30 PM

Oakes South

Lunch and Keynote Addresses sponsored by LEA Consulting

Moderator by Nick Rosati, Niagara Region

Keynote Shailen Bhatt, President & CEO of ITS America “Intelligent Mobility: Safer. Greener. Smarter”

Mayor Diodati of Niagara Falls

Keynote Kurtis McBride, CEO and Co-Founder Miovision “The open city: building a smart city that benefits everyone”

1.30 PM – 3:00 PM

Hennepin South

Sponsored by MITL

M3 Smart Infrastructure for CAV Operations

Moderated by Sari Mahli, Electromega

1. Distributed Dynamic Route Guidance Using Network of Intelligent Intersections - Shadi Djavadian, Dr. Bilal Farooq, Nikki

Rahnamaei, Ryerson

2. Analysis of CAV Routing Algorithm in Mixed Environment - Lama Alfaseeh, Dr. Bilal Farooq, Dr. Shadi Djavadian, Ryerson

3. Designing parking facilities for autonomous vehicles – Prof. Matt Roorda, Mehdi Nourinejad, Sina Bahrami, University of

Toronto

4. Safety and Feasibility of a Fully Autonomous Shuttle on a University Campus - Andrew Bartlett, NITTEC/University at

Buffalo

Time Monday, June 18, 2018

1.30 PM – 3:00 PM

Peninsula

Sponsored by MITL

M4 Emerging Methods to Tackle Congestion

Moderated by Michael Bailey, StreetLight Data, Inc.

1. Low-cost technologies to understand and mitigate caution at railway crossings – Garreth Rempel, TRAINFO

2. Use of Contextual Accident Prediction Methods for Road Traffic Regime Adaptation – Prof. Ilham Benyahia, Amine

Chiali,UQO

3. Leveraging Mobility Pricing – How to harness mobility pricing to reduce congestion, promote fairness, and support

investment in transportation - Preeya Shah, Adrian Lightstone, WSP Canada

4. An advanced dynamic pricing framework for HOTL - concept and application to project evaluation - Rob Pringle, WSP

Canada, Goran Nikolic, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Hennepin North

Young Professionals Session

sponsored by WSP Group Canada and Niagara Region

Click here for final agenda

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Oakes North/Foyer

Break and Networking with Exhibitors sponsored by Black & McDonald

3:30 PM – 5:15 PM

Hennepin South

Sponsored by MITL

M5 Über-Intelligent Transportation Systems (Ü-ITS)

Moderated by Richard Chylinksi, Parsons

1. Understanding Travel Demand with AI Insights – Wendy Reuter, CUTA

2. A Practical Application of Artificial Intelligence in Traffic Responsive Signal Control – Mark Conrad, Ehsan Bagheri,

Parsons

3. Calgary’s Traffic Management Centre – A step towards AI and Machine Learning – Sameer Patil, City of Calgary

4. Predictive analysis of publicly available open datasets towards enhancing intelligent transportation systems - Olaitan

Olaleye, Philips Lighting Research North America

5. Implementation of a Realistic Traffic Simulation Model for Resource Road Environments – Prof. David G Michelson, UBC

Time Monday, June 18, 2018

3:30 PM – 5:15 PM

Oakes South

Sponsored by MITL

M6 Speed Learning with Next Gen AI Experts*

Moderated/facilitated by Prof. Bilal Farooq and

Ms. Mara Bullock, WSP Group Canada

1. Modelling the effect of sensors failure to improve the reliability of Origin-Destination trip estimation in congested traffic

networks – Mostafa Salari, UoC (presented by Soheila Aalmai)

2. Road network vulnerability analysis considering the probability of rare events - Mohammad Ansari, UoC (presented by

Nadia Moshahedi)

3. Transportation Mode detection Using WiFi data - Arash Kalatian, Ryerson

4. Estimating Travel Times for Separate Facilities on Freeways Using Bluetooth Measurements – Wenfu Wang, University of

Waterloo

5. Inferring Transportation Mode from GPS traces using Generative Adversarial Networks - Ali Yazdizadeh, Concordia

6. Real-time Automated Winter Road Condition Monitoring Using Pre-trained Deep Neural Networks - Guangyuan Pan,

University of Waterloo

7. Adaptive Traffic Signal Control Using Bluetooth/Wifi Data: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach- Matthew Muresan,

University of Waterloo

8. Pedestrian Density Modelling using Generative Deep Learning on WiFi Data- Melvin Wong, Ryerson

9. Enter the Matrix: Adaptive Signal Control using Deep Reinforcement Learning – Wade Genders, McMasters

10. Fair Resource Allocation in Emergency Evacuation Using Intelligent Transportation Systems – Soheila Aalmai, UoC

11. A bi-level optimization model for mixed urban-freeway network - Nadia Moshahedi, University of Calgary

*Note: This session will be a highly interactive session organized into three parts: firstly, all speakers will be given 3 minutes each

to present their poster slide to the audience followed by a moderated discussion and thirdly all speakers will be available for

general discussions next to their posters

4:45 PM – 6:30 PM

Fallsview Private Dining

Room

ITS Canada Board of Directors Meeting

6:45 PM – 9:00 PM ITS Canada reception – by invitation only

Time Tuesday, June 19, 2018

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Oakes North/Foyer

Exhibit Open

7:15 AM – 3:00 PM

Oakes Foyer

Registration

7:15 AM – 8:15 AM

Oakes South

Women in ITS Canada Breakfast Meeting – co-hosted by Mara Bullock, Athena Hutchins and Janneke van der Zee (if you are

interested in joining, send an email to janneke@itscanada.ca)

7:15 AM – 8:15 AM

Oakes South

Breakfast sponsored by PBX Engineering

8:15 AM – 9:15 AM

Oakes South

Sponsored by Global

Automakers Canada

“ITS for Life” Session sponsored by Global Automakers of Canada Moderator Richard B. Easley, E-Squared Engineering

Presenters:

Mr. Richard B. Easley, President E-Squared Engineering

Ms. Usha Elyatamby, Associate Director, IBI Group

Mr. Stephen Erwin, Head, Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

Oakes North/Foyer

Smart Cities Ecosystem Exhibit Tour – organized by Jeff Smart, Tacel Ltd, Arif Rafiq, Esri Canada

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Oakes North/Foyer

Break and Networking with Exhibitors sponsored by Black & McDonald

10:30 AM – 11.15 AM Smart Cities Ecosystem Technical Tour

Time Tuesday, June 19, 2018

10:30 AM – Noon

Hennepin South

T1 Smart and Integrated Management

Moderated by Athena Hutchins, NITTEC

1. Benefits and Lessons Learned from Integrated Corridor Management – Jeff Adler, Kapsch

2. 511DFW Multimodal Traveler Information System- Natalie Bettger/Marian Thompson, NCTCOG

3. I-80 SMART Corridor ICM, Derek Pines, Parsons

4. ICM and Cooperative Approaches in California - Daniel Lukasik, Parsons

5. Vehicle to Vehicle Communication for Resource Road Environments – Prof. David G Michelson, UBC

10:30 AM – Noon

Peninsula

T2 Prospects of Smart Mobility in Canada

Moderated by Usha Elyatamby, IBI Group

1. What does the future hold for Smart Cities in Canada? Impact of automated and transformative transportation systems –

Prof. Baher Abdulhai, Roorda, M., Habib, K., Hatzoupolou, M., iCity-CATTS

2. City of Calgary Next Generation TMC – Establishing the Foundation for a Smart City Operations Centre – Jonathan

Darton, IBI Group, Sameer Patil, City of Calgary

3. Are Canadian municipalities truly getting ready for the Smart City revolution?- Arif Rafiq, Esri Canada

4. Driving Change” – The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications Report and its Potential impact on

the Automotive Industry In Canada - Dave Adams, Global Automakers Canada

Noon – 1:30 PM

Oakes South

Lunch and keynote addresses sponsored by Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

Moderator Gregg Loane, City of Toronto

Keynote Dr. William Anderson, CB Institute, University of Windsor “Smart Corridors, Smart Borders, Smart Cities” Keynote Mr. Kirk Steudle, Director, Michigan DoT “Smart Collaboration”

Time Tuesday, June 19, 2018

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Meet at 1:15 pm at

Registration Desk

Technical Tour – Rainbow Bridge

The Rainbow Bridge is an international border crossing that connects two popular tourist destinations, Niagara Falls, NY to

Niagara Falls, ON. Over 1.2 million pedestrians and over 2.4 million vehicles cross this bridge annually making this one of the

busiest connections on the Northern Border. Beyond the amazing view of both the American and Canadian Falls, this session will

discuss the Border Wait Time system that has recently been installed and what that means to the Niagara corridor as a

whole. We will also look at some of the various challenges at the border and what the future may look like.

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Hennepin South

T3 Smart Cities – Smart Corridors Technology Solutions Moderated by Phil Masters, Parsons

1. A mobile fare payment solution – Carl Woo, York Region

2. York Region's travel time/speed monitoring system using Bluetooth – Paul Nause, York Region

3. Use of Drones for Real-Time Traffic Management – Gregg Loane, City of Toronto

4. Smart Highway Corridor – Travel Time Delay Information – Frank Pinder, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Christina

Klein, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Louis Vachon, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Robert Bruce, TPA NA

5. Technology Testing as Part of the QEW HOT Lanes Pilot Project – Geoff Knapp, WSP

Time Tuesday, June 19, 2018

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Peninsula

T4 Smart Cooperation for Safety and Extreme Conditions

Moderated by Cory Edgar, PBX Engineering

1. Anticipating Traffic Changes during Severe weather – Peter Fedechko, IRD

2. Smart City Solution for winter mobility management – Mike Burton, Campbell Scientific

3. Vehicle-to-railway (V2R) technologies for school bus safety at railway crossings - Garreth Rempel, TRAINFO

4. LED Blank-Out Sign - Bylaw Turn Prohibition Enhancement – Hong Fu, City of Toronto

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break and networking with the Exhibitors sponsored by Black & McDonald

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Tear Down Exhibit

3:30 PM – 5:00PM

Hennepin South

T5 Smart Cities – Smart Corridors Smart Mobility

Moderated by Richard B. Easley, E-Squared Engineering

1. Intersect™: A Revolutionary Platform Promoting the Transition to “Smart Cities” – Patrick Lauzière, Orange Traffic

2. Introducing the World's Smartest Intersection – Dave Bullock, Miovision

3. Enable smarter mobility through advanced V2I technology – Victor Darias, Global Traffic Technologies Canada

4. Taxonomy and Abstraction of the On-Demand Mobility Aviation System for Smarter Cities - Mesa-Arango,

Rodrigo/Wancheng Dai, Florida Institute of Technology

5. Creating Trusted Data to Enable ITS Applications in Smart Cities – Kevin Henry, ESCRYPT

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Peninsula

T6 Smart Cooperation

Moderated by Stanley Hung, LEA Consulting

1. Enabling Real World Deployments of Autonomous Vehicles to Support Smart Mobility - Joah Sapphire, Global Dynamic

Group & University of Buffalo

2. Railway Crossing Information System – Julian Vasquez, PBX Engineering

3. AURORA Connected Vehicle Test Bed – Prof. David G Michelson, UBC

4. Development of an ITS Services Book – Manny Grewal, CIMA+, Lija Whittaker, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

5. ITS Program in BC – Brigid Canil, BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

Time Tuesday, June 19, 2018

5:50 PM – 9:30 PM

Great Room

Oakes South

ITS CANADA AWARDS CEREMONY AND GALA DINNER- Awards Ceremony Chair: John Greenough

5:50 pm to 6:45 pm Cocktail Reception in the Great Room

6.45 pm: Gala Dinner

Guest speaker - Mr. Andrew Giordano, Director of the Youth Circus Project.

Presentation details:

"What if progress wasn't measured by work, but rather by play? We know that creativity and innovation can only flourish in a brain

that is immersed regularly in play. This presentation shares the idea of developing your ability to find and keep that state where

work is joyful and a true expression of what you're capable of. The state where everything is allowed to be possible, and our best

ideas come. Incorporating spectacular circus arts, this presentation shares a journey toward authentic and impactful living"

CLICK HERE for more details about the Youth Circus Project.

Time Wednesday, June 20 2018

7:15 AM – 8:15 AM

Oakes Foyer

Registration

7:30 AM – 8:15 AM

Oakes South

Breakfast sponsored by Econolite Canada

8:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Hennepin South

W1 The future of Big Data

Moderated by Rajeev Roy, Regional Municipality of York

1. Future issues in IoT and Big Data: A Business Driven Model for Managing Data – Kirk Schuller, York Region

2. iCity Ontology for IoT and Big Data - Dr. Megan Katsumi, Mark Fox, UoT

3. A Blueprint for Applying Big Data to Small Projects - Michael Bailey, StreetLight Data, Dewan Karin, City of Toronto

8:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Peninsula

W2 Securing Transportation Systems – Cybersecurity

Moderated by Mark Conrad, Parsons

1. Canadian Municipal ITS Deployment Scan – Chris Philp, CIMA+, Jason Boose, Transport Canada

2. Truck Parking System Deployment – Lessons Learned – Dr. Jeff Adler, Kapsch

3. Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Methodologies - Lauri J. Brady, Kapsch

4. Detection systems at the Melocheville tunnel - René Marcouiller, CIMA+, Pascal Roberge, JCCBI

5. Alex Fraser Bridge Capacity Improvements - Cory Edgar, PBX, Brigid Canil, BC Ministry of Transportation and

Infrastructure Mathew Bond. BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM

Foyer

Peninsula/Hennepin

Break

Time Wednesday, June 20 2018

10.00 AM – 11:30 AM

Peninsula

W3 Innovations in Collecting and Applying Traffic Data

Moderated by Michael De Santis, Innovation MI-8

1. Generating electricity from kinetic motion of roadway infrastructure – Yeatland Wong, City of Calgary/Dr. Ferguson, UoC

2. Preparing MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION OF ONTARIO COMPASS System for IoT – Wendy Ng, Paul Lim-hing,

David Tsui, Herbert Ng, Everard Rodney, Hoi Wong Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Mark Conrad, Parsons

3. The use of automated video-based counters to evaluate the effects of the King Street Transit Pilot across all modes -

Aakash Harpalani, City of Toronto

4. Regional Big Data Solution for Transportation in Southern California – Daniel Lukasik, Parsons

5. Signal Phasing and Timing – Policy Considerations - Rajnath Bissessar, Masoud Ramezani, City of Toronto

10.00 AM – 11:30 AM

Hennepin South

W4 ITS Deployments and Applications

Barry Pekilis, National Research Council

1. Cybersecurity of TMS and the implications of CAV – Marisa Ramon, Daniel A. Zajac, Southwest Research Institute

2. Connecting Cloud Services & Agency Infrastructure – Richard Chylinski, Parsons

3. A Generic Framework for Security Risk Assessment for Intelligent Transportation Systems- Paul Bottinelli, ESCRYPT

4. “What are Smart Cities and a Smart Transportation Systems without a Cyber Secured Fortified Smart Grid Network?” –

Eric Labrie, IS5 Communications

5. Secure V2X Proof of Concept Deployment in the City of Stratford- Kevin Henry, ESCRYPT

11:30 AM – noon

Oakes South

Keynote on Privacy sponsored by StreetLight Data, Inc.

Moderated Kara Selke, StreetLight Data, Inc

Renee Barrette, Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner " Privacy Controls for Smart City Initiatives”

Noon – 12:30 PM

Oakes South

Closing Luncheon

12:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Oakes South

CYBER SECURITY AND PRIVACY WORKSHOP - UNDERSTANDING NEEDS AND BEST PRACTICES

Moderated by Pino Porciello, ESCRYPT

Click here for a complete workshop agenda.