ITE Manitoba Section

ITE Manitoba Luncheon Our presenter this month is Jairo Viafara, AICP, from the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Metropolitan Planning Organization. Jairo’s presentation is titled "Roadway Improvements and Traffic Enhancements as Suggested by Safe Routes to Schools Parent's Surveys". The presentation will detail a study that considered how parent’s perceptions of spatially-based neighborhood attributes influence travel mode choice, and how travel mode choice may contribute to children’s socialization. Please note that the price of the luncheon is $27.39 for members and friends and $16.68 for students. Registration and online…

The March meeting of the ITE Manitoba Section will be held on Thursday, March 15, 2018 starting at 12 noon.   The luncheon will be held at the Winnipeg Winter Club, at 200 River Avenue. Parking is provided south of the building, and is accessible from Harkness Avenue and from Bell Avenue (via Donald Street). The main building entrance is on the south side of the building. Our Meeting will take place in the Riverview Room.   Our presenter this…

The luncheon will be held at the Winnipeg Winter Club, at 200 River Avenue. Parking is provided south of the building, and is accessible from Harkness Avenue and from Bell Avenue (via Donald Street). The main building entrance is on the south side of the building. Our Meeting will take place in the Riverview Room. Our presenter this month is Garreth Rempel, P. Eng. from TRAINFO and MORR Transportation Consulting. Garreth’s presentation focuses on innovative solutions to railway crossing blockages. These blockages can cause lengthy…

The February meeting of the ITE Manitoba Section will be held on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 starting at 12 noon. The luncheon will be held at the Winnipeg Winter Club, at 200 River Avenue. Parking is provided south of the building, and is accessible from Harkness Avenue and from Bell Avenue (via Donald Street). The main building entrance is on the south side of the building. Our Meeting will take place in the Riverview Room. Our presenter this month is…

The January meeting of the ITE Manitoba Section will be held on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, starting at 12 noon. Please note that we have a new meeting venue: the Winnipeg Winter Club, at 200 River Avenue. Parking is provided south of the building, and is accessible from Harkness Avenue and from Bell Avenue (via Donald Street). The main building entrance is on the south side of the building. Our Meeting will take place in the Riverview Room. Our presenter…

Edward Soldo, Director of Roads and Transportation for the City of London and President of the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers will be the speaker this month. Edward will provide the membership an update of CITE district activities plus a presentation entitled, “Shift – London’s Rapid Transit Network Initiative”.  Shift is a bold and important transportation and city-building initiative for London. It focuses on developing Rapid Transit as a core mobility option in a multi-modal transportation system that will help London continue…

The speaker this month will be Steven Florko, EIT at Stantec Consulting Ltd. Steven has worked in transportation for four years. During that time he has completed more than two dozen transportation studies on new developments in Winnipeg, Brandon, and other communities in Manitoba. His involvement with the CPR Yards Crossing Functional Design Study included forecasting future traffic flows and conducting traffic analyses. His interests in transportation focus on relationships between transportation and land use, and the role of transportation…

The June meeting of the ITE Manitoba Section will be held on Thursday, June 29, 2017 starting at 12 noon at the Masonic Temple, 420 Corydon Avenue (at Confusion Corner). Presenting this month is Bill Menzies, Senior Transit Planner with Dillon Consulting. Bill joined Dillon in 2012 after a 32 year career with Winnipeg Transit. He was the City’s project manager for the Southwest Transitway Stage 1 project that opened in April 2012. With Dillon, he has continued his involvement…

Caleb Olfert, winner of the Kean Lew Memorial Student Paper and Presentation Competition, will be our speaker this month. Caleb will be sharing his research on pedestrian monitoring in downtown Winnipeg.  His presentation is titled Pedestrian Monitoring: A Standardized Approach for Continuous Count Location Selection in Highly Urbanized Environments. Costs are $25 for regular attendees and $15 for students. Online registration for the luncheon MUST be completed in advance by following the link here.  All registrations must be submitted by…

The April meeting of the ITE Manitoba Section will be held on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 starting at 12 noon at the Masonic Temple, 420 Corydon Avenue (at Confusion Corner). The speaker this month will be Scott Suderman C.E.T., P. Eng. Scott is a transportation engineering professional with over 10 years of experience in both the public sector and the consulting industry. He has a variety of experience in the planning and design of all types of transportation facilities. Within…

ITE Manitoba Section luncheon will be held on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 starting at 12:00 p.m. at the City of Winnipeg Transportation Management Centre at 821 Elgin Street.  This month the City of Winnipeg Traffic Signals Branch will be hosting our group for a tour of their recently opened Transportation Management Centre (TMC).  Our tour guides will be Michael Cantor and Jon Foord, both of the City of Winnipeg Traffic Signals Branch. The cost is $25 for all attendees. Online…

Speaker Bio: Jen Malzer is the current CITE President and Pedestrian Planner for the City of Calgary. She is a two-time graduate from the University of Manitoba where she studied heavy trucking before falling in love with walking, cycling and transit. Jen is a 20-year commuter cyclist and spent four years teaching the Transit City course at the University of Calgary. Some of her projects at the City of Calgary include the SW BRT concept study, North Central LRT corridor…

The May 2016 meeting of the ITE Manitoba Section will be held on Thursday, May 12 starting at 12 noon at the Round Table Steak House located at 800 Pembina Highway. The speaker this month will be Dr. Garreth Rempel, P.Eng. Garreth is a Founding Partner of MORR Transportation Consulting Ltd. and specializes in transportation engineering issues related to freight operations and policy, road safety, and traffic information systems. He is a member of the ITS Canada Connected and Automated…

The speaker this month will be Rebecca Peterniak, M.Sc. CE, B.Sc. CE, EIT. Rebecca is a Transport Infrastructure Specialist at Fireseeds North Infrastructure who specializes in road safety, vulnerable road user accommodation, and inclusive transportation. She holds a M.Sc. in transportation engineering from the University of Manitoba. Rebecca has completed over 100 safety audits and in-service road safety reviews, and worked on multiple safety guidelines. She is the first and only individual to receive both the Charles Miller Road Safety…

The March 2016 meeting of the ITE Manitoba Section will be held on Wednesday, March 23 House and Pub located at 800 Pembina Highway. The speaker this month will be Tanya Worms. Tanya has a Masterís of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Manitoba. She is a senior transportation engineer with AECOM and has over 10 years of experience working in project management and has been involved in several road, rail, airport and bridge projects that required…

The February 2016 meeting of the ITE Manitoba Section will be held on Thursday, February 18 House and Pub located at 800 Pembina Highway. The speaker this month will be Judy Redmond. Judy has a Masterís of Science degree in Accessibility and Inclusive Design from the School for the Built Environment at the University of Salford in the U.K. She works with the City of Winnipeg Planning Property and Development department as the Universal Design Coordinator, administering the Universal Design…