2023 Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Lessons in Leadership Conference & Exhibition

Leadership and innovation are key in times of rapid change. Join nearly 1,400 professionals from businesses, municipalities, government transportation departments, associations and academia to discover how Canada’s transportation sector is responding to challenges in areas like safety and security, mobility, equity, technology and climate change resiliency.

Don’t forget to stop by exhibition booth No. 4 for candid conversations with our presenters. We hope to see you in beautiful Ottawa.

Connect With Our 2023 TAC Presenters

Monday, Sept. 25

 Diverging Diamond Interchange Won’t Work? Try a Turbine Interchange

• Room 214 | 1:45 p.m. | All Highways Big and Small: Interchanges, Major Facilities and Two-Lane Highways
• Smith Siromaskul & Megan Ferguson, HDR

Multimodal Network Planning — Developing & Applying Measures of Effectiveness to Evaluate Solutions in the GGH

• Room 202 | 1:45 p.m. | Innovations in Transportation Systems Modelling
• Ryhs Wolff, HDR (with Jin Wang, Ontario Ministry of Transportation)

Managing Expectations in an Uncertain World; the Where, When and Why of Managed Lanes Today

• Room 214 | 3:45 p.m. | All Highways Big and Small: Interchanges, Major Facilities, and Two-Lane Highways
• Camille Alexander & Smith Siromaskul, HDR

Tuesday, Sept. 26

Completely Incomplete Streets: When a Meter Only Buys You Millimeters

• Room 204 | 3:45 p.m. | Urban Design Challenges: Accessibility, Vision Zero and Complete Streets
• Will Hume, HDR

A Planner, An Engineer, and a Citizen Walk into a Bar: Expediting Complete Street Solutions

• Room 204 | 3:45 pm | Urban Design Challenges — Accessibility, Vision Zero and Complete Streets
• Jamie Krzeminski, HDR

Regional Initiatives Leading the Way Towards Progressive Transportation Planning

• Room 105 | 3:45 p.m. | Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure: From Strategy to Maintenance 
• Jonathan Chai, HDR

Pursuing Freight Modal Shift to Support Sustainability and Climate Change Objectives

• Room 210 | 3:45 p.m. | Goods Movement
• Lynn Machacek, HDR

Wednesday, Sept. 27

Running Away from Antiquation: Optimizing the Footprint of Alternative Intersections with Bus Rapid Transit

• Room 205 | 8:30 a.m. | Urban Design Challenges — Accessibility, Vision Zero and Complete Streets
• Ellen Simpson & Smith Siromaskul, HDR

Marrying Grade Separations with Complete Streets Design to Support Transit-Oriented Communities

• Room 205 | 10:30 a.m. | Urban Design Challenges — Accessibility, Vision Zero and Complete Streets 
• Tara Erwin, HDR (with Hilda Esedebe, City of Vaughan)

Lessons in Leadership: Guiding Multi-billion-dollar Transit Decisions Using Data

• Room 203 | 1 p.m. | Applications of Data in Transportation Planning
• Karim Nahed, HDR

Promoting Health and Equity through Transportation Mobility Choice in the Vaughan Transportation Plan

• Room 105 | 1 p.m. | Health, Equity, and Transportation 
• Peter Chen, HDR (with Chris Tam, City of Vaughan)

US Transportation Agencies Accelerating Toward Digital Delivery and OpenBIM

• Room 201 | 3 p.m. | Digital Twinning for Transportation Assets
• Will Sharp, HDR