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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,...
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Using GIS to interpret automated speed enforcement guidelines and guide deployment decisions in mobile photo enforcement programs
Download2019-11-07
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...
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Universal Design for the rural walks of life: operationalizing walkability in Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada
Download2017-04-10
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...
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Towards establishing effective commercial driver training standards: analysis of industry opinions from Alberta
Download2019-11-12
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...
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Reconstructing an Emergency Evacuation by Ground and Air the wildfire in Fort McMurray, alberta, Canada
Download2019-11-12
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...
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2020-01-19
Mélodie Kunegel-Lion, Mark A. Lewis
The efficacy of direct control methods in bark beetle outbreaks is a disputed topic. While some studies report that control reduces tree mortality, others see little effect. Existing models, linking control rate to beetle population dynamics and tree infestations, give insights, but there is a...
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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...
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Identifying Critical Corridors During an Area-Wide Disruption by Evaluating Network Bottleneck Capacity
Download2021-07-24
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...
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Advocacy coalition impacts on healthy public policy-oriented learning in Alberta, Canada (2009–2016): A difference-in-differences analysis
Download2019-01-01
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)...
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2014
Wu, B., Newton, F., Kouritzin, Michael A.
A new class of discrete random fields designed for quick simulation and covariance inference under inhomogenous conditions is introduced and studied. Simulation of these correlated fields can be done in a single pass instead of relying on multi-pass convergent methods like the Gibbs Sampler or...