33rd CARSP Conference Proceedings

 
June 16-29, 2024, Winnipeg, Manitoba 

If you like to have the contact info of the presenter please reach out to CARSP Executive Director at info@carsp.ca 

Session 1A: Equity in Transportation Planning

• Building CapaCITY/Ã for Sustainable Transportation: A Novel Implementation Science Framework for Sustainable Transportation Interventions (Emily Mccullogh) 
• Conducting an Equity-Informed In-service Road Safety Review for Jane Street (Amr Shalkamy) 
• Navigating Accessibility for People with Sight Loss at Island Platform Bus Stops (Luan Jiang) 
• Lessons Learned from Guelph Walkshop on Safe Mobility and Equity (Valerie Smith) 

Session 1B: Cyclist Safety

• Bicyclist Injury Trends during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis (Brice Batomen) 
• Pedaling Forward: The Evolution of Bicycling Infrastructure in 3 Canadian Cities from 2010 to 2022 (Richard Wen)
• Using microsimulation to investigate design options for safe mobility of bicyclists at signalized intersections (Robert Mansell)
• Paving The Way Forward: The Safety Implications of Complete Streets (Abigail Cartwright)

Session 2A: Factors Impacting Safe Speeds

• Distracted Driving in Ontario (2024 Survey) (Michael Stewart) 
• Evaluating the impacts of adverse weather conditions and driver demographics on drivers' speed and travel choice in different climatic regions: A qualitative study (Navoda Rillagodage) 
• Designing Lower-Speed Collectors and Arterials: Why It Matters for Safety and How to Do It (Farid Mullally) 
• Improving road safety in inclement weather conditions by exploring weather-specific speed choices among drivers with different demographic attributes: A narrative  review (Navoda Rillagodage)

Session 2B: Trends in pedestrian injuries and mortality

• Adult Pedestrian Fatalities in Ontario from 2013 to 2019 (Allison Pellar) 
• Analysis of Pedestrian Injury Trends during COVID-19 Pandemic in Four Canadian Cities (Saroar Zubair)
• Senior Pedestrian Fatalities in Ontario from 2013 to 2019 (Allison Pellar)
• Safe Streets for Kids: Evaluating Traffic danger on streets through a Multi-Criteria Decision-Aiding (Shabnam Abdollahi)

Session 2C: Public Health Approaches to Road Safety

• What we can learn from public health about built environment change for injury prevention? Insights (Sarah Richmond)
• From Polling to Persuading: uncovering public attitudes about Vision Zero priorities to inform road safety campaigns (Kelley Teahen)
• Exploring Disparities in Cannabis-Impaired Driving: A Sociodemographic and Behavioural Analysis Base (Renzo Calderon Anyosa) 

Session 3A: Safe Systems Integration into Traffic Engineering Methods

• A Case Study of Temiskaming Shores: Complete Streets and Safe Systems Integration (Tanishka Mehta)
• Comparing Intersection Types Using Safe System Principles (Raheem Dilgir)
• Complete Streets Transformation: Improving Safety on Upper Paradise Road (Alexander Nolet)
• Flood Recovery Highway 8 Reinstatement Road Safety Audit (Borg Ka Leung Chan)

Session 3B: Designing for pedestian safety and AT

• "Traffic Collisions Involving Pedestrians in Winnipeg (2012-2020): A Transportation Equity Analysis" campaigns (JairoViafara)

• Tailoring TAC's Pedestrian Crossing Control Guide for Small-town Environments (Omid Ebadi & Alvin Tse)
• The Ontario Protected Intersection Guide: Guidance on Intersection Treatments to Improve Safety for Active Transportation (Nick Sully)

Session 4A: COVID-19 and Road Safety

• Examining the Effects of COVID-19 Restrictions on Traffic Volume and Vehicle Speed in British Columbia (Breanna Nelson)
• The Effect of COVID-19 Policies on Road Traffic Injury in Three Canadian Cities – Identifying Spatial Trends in Police-Reported Collision Data (Zeinab Ali Yas)
• The unintended consequences of non-pharmaceutical COVID interventions on road safety across Québec (Jose Ignacio Nazif-Munoz)

Session 4B: Using Technology To Predict and Prevent Transportation Injuries and Fatalities

• Is There a Faster Way to Assess the Safety of Vision Zero Strategies than Waiting for a Large Enough Sample of Crashes? Application of Machine Learning and Traffic Conflicts for Quick Evaluations (Maryam Hasanpour)
• Machine learning regression trees for child active transportation injury (Tate Hubkarao) 
• Shifting from reactive blackspots to proactive risk-based analysis (Tyler Golly)
• The Comparison Between NHTSA and ACOG Guidelines and AI-Generated Responses on the Safety of Pregnant Mothers While Driving (Peter Tiu)

Session 4C: Road Safety Governance

• Governance of Road Safety in Canada (Paul Boase)
• Friend or Foe: When Professional Guidelines Interfere with the Advancement of Road Safety Knowledge and Practices (Charlotte Rose Deshaies)
• Vision 110 (km/h) – a threat to safe mobility on freeways? (Bhagwant Persaud)

Session 5A: Implementing Vision Zero

• Implementing Vision Zero: Utilizing the CFIR to examine barriers and facilitators to BE change (Emily Mccullogh)
• Implementing Healthy Urban Policy in Guelph, Ontario: Lessons from Copenhagen (Linda Rothman) 
• Trends in Road Safety and Vision Zero Planning in Canada 2021-2023 (Raheem Dilgir) 

Session 5B: Impact of Medical Conditions on Road Safety Outcomes

• Driving Towards Inclusivity in Fitness-to-Drive Assessments for ADHD and Autism (Siyath Ariyaratne)
• Assessing the impact of long-standing monocular vision on driving behaviours and safety (Bruce Haycock)
• Where is my head when I drive? When ADHD and distracted driving drive together (Martin Lavalliere)

Session 5C: Applications for Autonomous Vehicle Technology

• Autonomous vehicles and Active Safety Systems: Implications for First Responder Vehicles (Jerome Range)
• Unveiling and Addressing Biases in Pedestrian Recognition Systems (Siyath Ariyarante) 
• Utilization of Wireless Sensors for Pedestrians Safety studies (Salah Fakhoury)
• Vulnerable Road User Safety in the AV Era: A Proactive Assessment Using Real-world Data (Mohamed Hussein)

Session 6A: Child & School Road Safety

• Saving Lives, One Car Seat At A Time (Eran Jones)
• Vaughan Safer School Zone Plan (Jeffrey Suggett)
• How Community Organizations Delivering School-Based Programming Could Play A Vital Role in Road Safety (Jamie Kwong)
• Machine learning regression trees for child active school transportation (Tate Hubkarao)
• Pre-implementation of a drop-off program near primary schools in Quebec: working together to improve security (Martin Lavalliere - Myriam Pare)

Session 6B: Current and Emerging ADSS

• Don't stop the progress: Automatic Emergency Braking over the years. (Amy Oke)
• Urban Jungle of Micro-Mobility: Is Emerging Transportation Detected by Today's Vehicles? (Charlebois)
• Wide Load Detection System - New AI Applications (Joshua Leung)
• Developing safety performance functions to predict wildlife-vehicle crash frequencies based on multi-source crash and traffic data (Navoda Rillagodage)
• Changing Gears: Can Crash Avoidance Systems Make Motorcyclists Safer? (Benoit Anctil)

Session 7A: Insights into Cannabis Impaired Drivers

• The Cost of Impaired Driving on Canadian Society: An Analysis from 2007–2020 (Raadiya Malam)
• Self-Regulatory Profiles of Cannabis Users and Their Association with Risky Driving Behaviours (Alejandra Contreras)
• "Stoned on the Road": A Review of Educational Efforts for Cannabis-Impaired Driving Targeting Young Drivers (Robert Colonna)
• The Prototype Willingness Model and Involvement in Impaired Driving in Young Drivers (Sepehr Hashemian)

Session 7B: Traffic Safety Enforcement

• Improving Mobile Collision Reporting, Increasing Convenience for Collision Investigation (Amanda Giuliano)
• Evaluation of a Cognitive Assessement Device for Testing Roadside Impairment (Craig Lyon)
• Impairment Identified by the Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) after Smoked Cannabis with and without Alcohol: Relating SFST Results to Simulated Driving Performance (Christine Wickens) 
• Optimizing the Deployment of Automated Speed Enforcement for Safety (Erik Nevland - Kevin Gingerich) 
• Enhancing Road Safety through Optimized Automated Speed Enforcement: A Data-Driven Tool (Mandana Hedayati) 

Session 7C: Epidemiology of Road Safety - Metrics & Trends

• Road Traffic Mortality in Iran: Longitudinal Trend and Seasonal Analysis, March 2011-February 2020 (Milad Delavary)
• Gaps in Road Safety Knowledge and Practice – A Literature Synthesis (Navoda Rillagodage)
• Résultats Québécois Du Sondage ESRA (Julie Beliveau) 

Session 8A: Impaired Driving Interventions

• Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Remedial Interventions for Impaired Drivers Provided Using Videoconferencing Technologies: A Final Report (Christine Wickens)
• Relationship Between Blood Alcohol Concentration on Arrest and Recidivism After 6 Years in Drivers Assigned to Brief or Intensive Intervention (Marie Claude Ouimet) 
• Reducing Youth Cannabis-Impaired Driving: Preliminary Findings from the 'High Alert' Pilot Randomized Control Trial (Robert Colonna)
• Facilitator Perspectives on In-Person Versus Online Delivery of a Remedial Intervention for Impaired Drivers: A Qualitative Study (Christine Wickens)

Session 8B: Vulnerable Road User Safety

• Evaluation of a Post-license Training Program for Motorcyclist (Québec, Canada) (Martin Lavalliere)
• Naturalistic Evaluation of the Lateral Acceleration Experienced by Snowmobiles with One and Two Occupants (Mark Paquette) (10.50- 11.10 a.m.)
• Reassessment of the use of Pedestrian Scramble Phases (Madeline Whitehouse) (11.10 - 11.30 a.m.)

Session 8C: Driver Education

• Participation and Factors Associated with the Uptake of Driver Refresher Courses for Older Drivers (Michel Bedard)
• Lessons Learned from Applying the For Young Drivers, By Young Drivers Framework for Meaningful Youth Engagement in Road Safety (Valerie Smith)