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Proceedings

2019 Calgary

29th CARSP Conference
May 26-29, 2019, Calgary, Alberta

Please note - Keynote, lunch and panel presentations are at the bottom of this page

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