News
Our research group is moving to The University of British Columbia’s Vancouver Campus, located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. We will be part of the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science. See you there!
Publication
Congratulations to Naomi Li on the publication of her paper, Allocating and scheduling resources for a mobile photo enforcement program, in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. This is the final paper of her dissertation!
PhD Candidacy
Congratulations to Sabrena Ohi, who passed her PhD candidacy exam on Friday with her proposal entitled, “Large Scale Wildfire Evacuation Planning Across a Long-Distance Transportation Network.”
A belated congratulations to Ohi for winning a Faculty of Engineering Teaching Assistant Award in the spring as well.
All the best to Ohi as she TAs CIVE 411 this term, and finishes her dissertation research into 2021.
Open position
Northern Transportation Systems: Novel Methods for Collecting Transportation Data and Building a Multimodal Transportation Database
Update 10/25: This position is now closed. Thanks to all who expressed interest.
Update 09/21: This position is still open, and must be filled as soon as possible.
Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral position within the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. The successful postdoctoral fellow will be involved full-time on a project with the National Research Council in gathering, organizing, and synthesizing data related to all aspects and modes of transportation operations in Northern Canada, specifically focused on the Northwest Territories. The postdoctoral fellow will interact directly with other university researchers (including graduate and undergraduate students), government partners, private operators, and others in successfully carrying out this initiative. Travel to the territories (about 2 times per year) is required. Qualifications/expectations include the following:
Preferred start: Immediately, or in Fall 2020. Salary will be competitive and commensurate to experience.
The University of Alberta, founded in 1908, is one of Canada’s foremost research-intensive universities with an operating budget of over one billion dollars annually, and over 38,000 students including over 7,000 graduate students. The Faculty of Engineering has over 4,400 undergraduate and 1,500 graduate students. Research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering covers all major areas of Civil, Environmental, Mining, and Petroleum Engineering.
To Apply:
Please send (via email) a cover letter, CV, and 2-3 references. These should describe your background, motivation, and relevant qualifications/experience. I also welcome any questions you may have, and can also provide more details on the projects available.
Amy Kim, Ph.D., P.Eng., Associate Professor
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
amy.kim@ualberta.ca
Closing date: Position open until filled.
The University of Alberta is committed to an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all qualified persons. We encourage women; First Nations, Métis and Inuit; members of visible minority groups; persons with disabilities; persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity and expression; and all those who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas and the University to apply.
Publication
Congratulations to Kasturi Mahajan on her paper entitled, “Vulnerability Assessment and Capacity Scan of Alberta’s Provincial Highway Network,” accepted for publication in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives!
Publication
Congratulations to Sabrena Ohi and Laura Cabral for having their papers accepted this spring!
Ohi’s paper, “Count Models to Represent the Impacts of Weather and Infrastructure on Flight Disruptions” was accepted in the Transportation Research Record. Her paper looks at quantifying the impacts of infrastructure and weather on the frequency of days with flight disruptions (cancellations, delays, and diversions) at Iqaluit Airport in Nunavut.
Laura’s paper, “An Empirical Reappraisal of the Four Types of Cyclists” was accepted in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Her paper documents her reappraisal of the widely used typology using empirical data collected from 3,200 survey respondents in the City of Edmonton.
Links to pre-prints will be provided soon in Publications. Congratulations to Ohi and Laura!
Publication
Our paper “Incorporating the impacts of climate change in transportation infrastructure decision models” has been accepted in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. This paper incorporates the uncertain impacts of climate change in large-scale infrastructure decisions, particularly in allowing for flexibility in these massively costly decisions that have enormous impacts on northern communities and local economies. I am so excited to bring this important issue to light within the transportation engineering/planning academic community. Congratulations Kevin!
News
Our final report to the City of Edmonton entitled “Exploring Cycling Patterns in the City of Edmonton: Developing a New Cyclist Classification Framework for Network Infrastructure Decisions” was completed in December 2019. Many students were involved in this 3-years long project led by Laura Cabral. I will post a link to this report soon. In the meantime please email me (amy.kim at ualberta.ca) if you’d like a copy.
PhD Candidacy
Congratulations to our group member Can Zhang (co-supervised with Tony Qiu) for passing his candidacy exam! His thesis is entitled “Decentralized Traffic Signal Control for a Large-Scale Network in a Connected Vehicle Environment via Edge Computing.”
News
Postdoctoral Position in Multimodal Transportation Systems
Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral position within the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. The applicant will work in one (or more) of the following areas of (mainly) long-distance, multimodal transportation systems planning:
Successful candidates will interact with other researchers at the University of Alberta, and key government and industry partners. Qualifications/expectations include the following:
Preferred start: January 2020 onwards. Salary will be competitive and commensurate to experience.
To Apply:
Please send (via email, to amy.kim@ualberta.ca) a cover letter, CV, and 2 references. These should describe your background, motivation, and relevant qualifications/experience. I also welcome any questions you may have, and can also provide more details on the projects available.
The position will remain open until filled.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.
The University of Alberta is committed to an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all qualified persons. We encourage women; First Nations, Métis and Inuit; members of visible minority groups; persons with disabilities; persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity and expression; and all those who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas and the University to apply.