Movers & Shakers
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MAXIMUM EFFORT Glen Schmidt, P.Eng., earned the 2014 MAX award from the Haskayne School of Business for his abil- ity to apply technical, strategic and marketing skills in the running of his company, Laricina Energy Ltd. - photo courtesy Laricina Energy Ltd.
work. And she’s examining strategies to reduce the negative environmental impact of the transportation sector. Dr. Kattan received the 2010 Early Research Excellence Award from the U of C. Gérard Lachapelle, P.Eng. , meanwhile, has been a professor of geomatics engineering at the U of C since 1988. He also served as department head for eight years. Now, he’s received the Killam Award for Graduate Supervision and Mentoring.
City of Calgary to develop sustainable traffic control and transportation management strategies. She looks at the management of freeway traffic, lanes and congestion pricing, and adaptive signal control strategies based on sensing technology and artificial intelligence. Models that apply intelligent infor- mation systems to public transit, with the goal of improving reliability, are under development by Dr. Kattan. LRT travel time prediction is included in the
Award. Her research program includes advanced traffic management and information systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS,) and dynamic demand and traveler modeling in response to traffic and transit information Dr. Kattan holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the American University of Beirut, and a PhD from the University of Toronto. As the Urban Alliance Research Professor in Transportation Systems Optimization, she works closely with the
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