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2019-01-01

Nykiforuk, C. I., McGetrick, J. A., Raine, K. D., Wild, T. C.

Since 2009, the Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease Prevention (APCCP) has pursued policy, systems, and environmental change strategies engaging policy elites to promote healthy public policy for chronic disease prevention in Alberta, Canada. Employing Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF)...

2021-07-24

Ohi, Sabrena Jahan, Kim, Amy M.

This paper applies the min-cut max-flow theorem combined with a grid cell disruption method over a large transportation network, to identify the importance of network locations in providing travel capacity when a community is evacuating (say, from wildfire). We develop metrices that look at the...

2019-06-06

Reyes Ayala, Brenda, Hitchcock, Ella, Sun, James

Paper and presentation delivered at the Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2019) in Champaign, Illinois. Web archives are becoming increasingly important to our digital infrastructure, as is judging the quality of these...

2019-11-12

Woo, M., Hui, K. T. Y., Ren, K., Gan, K. E., Kim, A.

The May 2016 wildfire of Northern Alberta – the costliest wildfire disaster in Canadian history to date – led to an area-wide evacuation by road and air. Traffic count and flight data were used to assess the characteristics of the evacuation, including estimating people movements by vehicle and...

2019-11-12

Gargoum, S. A., Kim, A. M., Zhang, H., Qiu, T. Z.

Commercial driver licensing programs ensure that drivers have the appropriate skills to perform their duties in a safe and efficient manner. Establishing such standards with good compliance requires understanding industry professionals’ opinions on aspects of current training. In this paper...

2017-04-10

Nykiforuk, C. I., Coupland, K., Nieuwendyk, L. M., Ann McGetrick, J.

Many Canadians have low levels of physical activity, including walking. One public health response is to improve opportunities for walking, or walkability, by changing community built environments. While urban walkability research is expanding, it does not readily apply to smaller, rural...

2019-11-07

Li, Y., Kim, A. M., El-Basyouny, K., Li, R.

Automated speed enforcement (ASE) guidelines are designed to guide enforcement agencies in operating ASE programs that are effective in improving traffic safety. Given that appropriate deployment decisions are essential to a program’s effectiveness, a number of deployment priorities are generally...

2015-01-01

Subramanyam, Veena, Paramshivan, Deepak, Kumar, Amit, Mondal, Md. Alam Hossain

The energy sector is the largest contributor to gross domestic product (GDP), income, employment, and government revenue in both developing and developed nations. But the energy sector has a significant environmental footprint due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Efficient production,...