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from the Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference
Proceedings
2019 Calgary
29th CARSP Conference
May 26-29, 2019, Calgary, Alberta
Table of Contents
Please note - Keynote, lunch and panel presentations are at the bottom of this page
Session 1A: Road Design and Traffic Control
- June 18, 2019
An Impact Assessment of Intersection Design and Operational Elements on Red-light Running
Henderson - June 18, 2019
The problem of cross-over highway crashes and what can be done about them.
Arason, Erdelyi, Melnyk, Chan, Brubacher - June 18, 2019
Sixth Edition of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices - Revisions to Enhance Safety
Dilgir
Session 1B: Collision Reconstruction
- June 18, 2019
Real World Side Impacts Involving Pediatric Rear Occupants
Shkrum, Pellar, McClafferty, Carter, Fraser, Charyk-Stewart, Comeau - June 18, 2019
Drag Sled Mechanics, a Fundamental Review
Navin - June 18, 2019
Pre-crash path determination using EDR stability control data
Agha-Razi
Session 1C: Alcohol Impaired Driving
- June 18, 2019
Roadside Surveys of Alcohol and Drug Use in Canada’s North
Beirness, Boase - June 18, 2019
Persistent depressed mood and alcohol in risky driving
Case, Brown - June 18, 2019
Automated Licence Plate Recognition (ALPR) Prolific Prohibited Driver Program in BC
Aroutiounian,
Session 2A: Distracted Driving and Crossing
- June 18, 2019
The Plight of the Distracted Pedestrian: A Meta-analysis of Mobile Phone Use and Crossing Behaviour
Simmons, Caird, Ta, Sterzer, Hagel - June 18, 2019
Use of Electronic Communication Devices by Canadian Drivers: Combined Urban/Rural Sites
Jonah - June 18, 2019
To What Extent Do Certain Cell Phone Tasks Decrease Driver Performance and Increase Crash Risk? An Overview Review of Meta-analyses and Naturalistic Studies
Caird, Simmons
Session 2B: Child and Adolescent Related Injury Prevention I
- June 18, 2019
A comparison of active school transportation across Canadian urban/suburban areas
Rothman, Cloutier, Ling, Desrosiers-Gaudette, Hubka, Howard, Macpherson, Fuselli, Hagel, Winters - June 18, 2019
The Smart e-Saver
Chung - June 18, 2019
An Investigation of Circumstances Contributing to Child Bicyclist Injuries in Three Canadian Municipalities.
Aucoin, Hubka, Zanotto, Ling, Doan, Beno, Stang, Howard, McCormack, Nettel-Aguirre, Teschke, Winters, Hagel
Session 2C: Vulnerable Road User Safety
- June 18, 2019
The effect of lowering residential speed limits to 30 km/h on pedestrian injuries in Toronto, Canada
Fridman, Ling, Rothman, Cloutier, Hagel, Howard
Award winner: Student Paper Competition Honourable Mention - June 18, 2019
How differences in ambient light intensity in or near an intersection will affect the interpretation of traffic ahead specificity vulnerable road users.
Browne - June 18, 2019
Safety Measures for Cyclists and Pedestrians Around Heavy Vehicles
Boase, Italiano, Florcke, Sow
Session 3A: Drug Impaired Driving
- June 19, 2019
Road Safety and the Lifeworld: Unintended Consequences of Canada’s New Drug-Impaired Driving Legislation
Valentine
Award winner: Étudiant 3 Student - June 18, 2019
Impact of Oral Fluid Screeners on Road Safety
Verghis - June 18, 2019
Is psychological distress related to driving under the influence of cannabis?
Tirnovanu, Berthiaume Grondin, Foug-Sung, Paquette, Bergeron - June 18, 2019
Cannabis Legalization and Driving: Exploring Young Ontarians Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes
Colonna, Alvarez, Holmes, Hand - June 18, 2019
Enhancing the SFST to Detect Cannabis Impairment
Beirness, Porath, Smith, Beasley
Session 3B: Speed Limits, Speeding and Risky Driving
- June 18, 2019
An Objective Warrant System for Red Light Cameras
Hildebrand, McBride - June 18, 2019
The casualty reduction benefits of Average Speed Enforcement Technology
Hall - June 18, 2019
Safety Evaluation of Speed Limit Increase on Rural Highways in British Columbia
Sengupta, Elesawey, Timpa, Jain - June 18, 2019
Variable Speed Limit System
Edgar
Session 3C: Child and Adolescent Related Injury Prevention II
- June 20, 2019
Driver characteristics involved in child and youth pedestrian motor-vehicle collisions (PMVC) and the built environment - a case control study
Fridman, Pitt, Rothman, Howard, Hagel - June 18, 2019
Risky driver behaviours at school drop-off time and active school transportation in children across Canadian urban/suburban areas
Rothman, Ling, Desrosiers-Gaudette, Hubka, Howard, Fuselli, Cloutier, Winters, Hagel, Macpherson - June 18, 2019
A Review of Study Designs in Childhood Transportation Injury Prevention Research in the Published Literature
Rothman, Clemens, Macarthur - June 18, 2019
Adult and child pedestrian road crossing behaviours during morning school drop-off time across Canadian urban/suburban areas
Cloutier, Ling, Desrosiers-Gaudette, Hubka, Howard, Macpherson, Fuselli, Winters, Hagel - June 18, 2019
Motorist speed compliance near Calgary Elementary Schools
Hubka, Churchill, Rothman, Nettel-Aguirre, Hagel
Session 4A: Cycling Safety
- June 18, 2019
A taxonomy of countermeasures for cyclict-vehicle crashes
Kaya, Donmez - June 18, 2019
Reduced Bicycle / Auto Conflicts in Urban Roadworks
Cox - June 18, 2019
Comparison of cycling injury hospitalization rates in Canadian provinces with different helmet legislation and cycle commuting
Teschke, Koehoorn, Shen, Dennis
Session 4B: Fitness to Driver and Driver Training
- June 18, 2019
Examining the effect of video-based feedback on older drivers' confidence and behind-the-wheel performance
Sangrar, Griffith, Letts, Vrkljan - June 18, 2019
Fitness to Drive: Strengthening Road Safety through Enhanced Road Assessments
Campbell - June 18, 2019
"Take Five Stay Alive" : Development and Implementation of Classroom Based DE program for Adolescents
Bruce
Session 4C: Truck Safety I
- June 18, 2019
Does truck driver training meet the needs of the industry?
Malkin, Madani Larijani, Zello, Bigelow, Crizzle - June 18, 2019
Could the implementation of rest areas decrease the number of truck driver crashes in Saskatchewan?
Crizzle, Toxopeus - June 18, 2019
Commercial Vehicles and Vulnerable Road User
Comeau, Monk, Boase, Burns, German
Session 5A: Pedestrian Safety
- June 18, 2019
Recent trends in child and youth emergency department visits because of pedestrian motor vehicle collisions by socioeconomic status in Ontario, Canada
Rothman, Macarthur, Wilton, Howard, Macpherson - June 18, 2019
Pedestrian road safety perception after a massive implementation of all-way stop signs (AWSS) in a Montreal neighbourhood
Cloutier, Desrosiers-Gaudette, Tardif, Pagel-Grechi - June 18, 2019
Characteristics of left- and right-turning vehicle-pedestrian crashes and what can be done about them
Arason, Erdelyi, Chan, Phillips, Brubacher - June 18, 2019
Midtown Atlanta Case Study - New Data Collection Techniques in Automated Pedestrian Safety Analysis
St-Aubin
Session 5B: Truck Safety II
- June 18, 2019
Nutrition Assessment of Long-Haul Truck Drivers: Implications on Health, Quality of Life and Road Safety
Zello, Malkin, Madani Larijani, Crizzle - June 18, 2019
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Depression among Long-Haul Truck Drivers in Western Canada
McLean, Malkin, Madani-Larijani, Crizzle - June 18, 2019
Occupational health and safety risks in Canadian long-haul truck drivers
Crizzle, Madani-Larijani, Malkin, Zello, Bigelow, Shubair, Thiffault
Session 6A: Vision Zero, Safe Systems Approach & City Wide Road Safety Plans I
- June 18, 2019
Automated Proactive Road Safety Analysis: Towards Vision Zero in Toronto
St-Aubin - June 18, 2019
Effective implementation of the Safe System Approach - The Belize Road Safety Project
Johnson, Scott-Bradley, Hyde - June 18, 2019
Comparison of Municipal Transportation Safety Planning Practices: Part 3 - Strategic Approaches
Dilgir - June 18, 2019
Vision Zero in Peel: A collaborative effort between Transportation and Public Health
Aymar, Toy
Session 6B: Autonomous Vehicles, Connected Vehicles and Networks & Advanced Vehicle Technology
- June 18, 2019
Safety Review: Edmonton's Downtown Protected Bicycle Network
Freigang - June 18, 2019
ELA - Lessons Learned by the City of Calgary
Sedor - June 18, 2019
Introducing ELA: The journey of Canada's first publicly accessible Autonomous shuttle
Groves, Korpan - June 18, 2019
Integration of roadside camera images and weather data for monitoring winter road surface conditions
Carrillo, Crowley
Award winner: Étudiant 1 Student
Session 6C: Built Environment's Relationship to Road Safety I
- June 18, 2019
Exposure-Adjusted Bicycling Crash Rates and Risk Factors in Seven European Cities
Branion-Calles, Nelson, Winters, Gotschi - June 18, 2019
Effect of neighbourhood proximity to safer routes on male and female commuting to work by bike
Teschke, Chinn, Brauer - June 18, 2019
Modeling Associations between Pedestrian Injury Severity and Road Infrastructure
Pascua, Dubois, Pernia, Bedard - June 18, 2019
Safety effects of cycle track implementation on cyclist-motor vehicle collisions in Toronto, Canada
Ling, Rothman, Cloutier, Howard
Session 7A: Vision Zero, Safe Systems Approach & City Wide Road Safety Plans II
- June 19, 2019
Mapping the road safety policy context across Canadian provinces
Winters, Zhou, Cloutier - June 18, 2019
Building the Vision: Community and Collaboration
Verlinden, Nasca, Smith Lea
Award winner: Mavis Johnson Traffic Safety Award - June 18, 2019
#VisionZero in Canada: What can we learn from Twitter when it comes to road safety initiatives?
Cloutier, Thigpen, Fersten - June 18, 2019
Traffic Safety Initiatives: City of St. Albert
Barua, Schick
Session 7B: Built Environment's Relationship to Road Safety II
- June 19, 2019
Evaluating the quality of evidence on built environment interventions within road safety public policies across five urban traffic environments in Canada
Richmond, Siladi, Friman, Fuselli, Pike, Macpherson - June 19, 2019
A Scoping Review of Canadian Evidence on the Relations Between Urban Form and Health in Children and Adolescents
Pitt, McCormack, Aucoin, Hubka, Goopy, Hagel - June 19, 2019
Toward Active Neighbourhoods: Analysing Pedestrian Collisions and Socio-Economic Status in three Canadian Cities
Khakh, Fast, Lee, Nasca, St. Pierre - June 19, 2019
Traffic in the City: A New Design Approach for Urban Public Spaces
Diepens
Session 7C: Collision Prediction and Prevention
- June 19, 2019
Predicting Crashes with Safe Systems Surrogates Obtained from Video Analytics' Implications for Evaluation of Vision Zero Safety Treatments
Jafari Anarkooli, Milligan, Penner, Persaud, Saleem
Award winner: Dr. Charles H. Miller Award and Étudiant 2 Student - June 19, 2019
Wildlife Detection System
Steele - June 19, 2019
More is Less: How Increasing Damage Thresholds for Reporting Collisions Erodes Sample Sizes and Produces Misleading Analytical Results
Pooley - June 19, 2019
Mapping Road Accidents in Québec
Girard-Verreault
Monday - Keynote Speaker
- June 20, 2019
Vision Zero: The Canadian Landscape – Momentum is Building
Fuselli
Panel 1: Risky Driving Behaviour and Road Safety
- June 20, 2019
Using Technology to Combat Risky Driving
Hall - June 20, 2019
The Need for Speed - How Can We Curb it?
Vingilis - June 20, 2019
A Synthesis of the Risks of Using Cell Phones while Driving and Countermeasure Effectiveness
Caird - June 20, 2019
Impaired Driving in Canada
Boase
Tuesday Morning Keynote Speaker
- June 20, 2019
Safer walking and cycling: Current challenges and strategies for change
Oxley
Panel 2: Vulnerable Road Users
- June 20, 2019
Stepping Toward a Safer Tomorrow through Active School Travel
Murray - June 20, 2019
Applying Vision Zero principles to create safer cycling infrastructure
Churchill - June 20, 2019
Vancouver’s Pedestrian Strategy
Quintero - June 20, 2019
Pent Up Desire: How the bicycle - and a National Cycling Strategy - can solve the top 4 transportation issues in Canada
Swanson
Wednesday Lunch Panel: Highly Automated and Autonomous Vehicles
- June 20, 2019
The Technology Tidal Wave: Even Death and Taxes are Not Certain
Godsmark - June 20, 2019
Highly Automated Vehicles in Canada
Doyle
Wednesday Afternoon Keynote Speaker
- June 20, 2019
Vision Zero: Everybody has the right to come home
Diepens