GIS IN Planning AND TRANSPORTATION

December 13, 2004
8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Ramada Plaza Conference Resort
10251 St. Edwards Drive
Richmond, B.C.

URISA BC hosted a seminar entitled GIS in Planning and Transportation. The purpose of the one-day seminar was to showcase how GIS and other technologies are being used by planning and transportation professionals.

The seminar had two tracks: Planning and Transportation.The keynote presentation focussed on technical trends in use of GIS in Planning and Transportation.

Planning Track: The presentations in this track illustrated how GIS is used by the Planners to anticipate future land development, develop population projections, and prepare land use scenarios and urban growth models. The underlying data and technology used for modelling and analysis were highlighted. A presentation on 3D Visualisation illustrated the technology used to preserve views and its role in development review process. The Vancouver port Authority discussed the process of evolution from CAD to GIS for real estate planning and management including GIS tools and applications.

Transportation Track: The transportation track focussed on GIS applications in municipal transportation operations, travel survey, demand modelling and development of transportation plans. The presentation discussed the role of GIS/GPS based regional travel time survey in development of regional EMME/2 transportation model. Some of the issues and challenges to plan and manage municipal transportation infrastructure were highlighted. Two case studies illustrated the use of GIS in development of a transportation plan.

The seminar concluded with a presentation on emerging remote sensing technology InSAR and its use for Planning and Transportation.

Thank you to our Presenters and Sponsors. Events like this are successful because of all of you. We hope this event was as beneficial to you as it was to the attendants. Our Sponsor Logos, which have links to their website, will be left up on our site for the next two weeks. Please utilize these links to find out more about our sponsors for this event.

The presentations from the event have been added to this page for your future reference.

We look forward to seeing you at our future events.

The URISA BC Executive

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PROGRAM

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Registration Doors Open and Breakfast and coffee INTRODUCTION 8:30 - 8:50 a.m. Welcome to GIS in Planning and Transportation Gurdeep Singh, President URISA BC PRESENTATIONS 8:50 - 9:20 a.m. Technical Trends in the use of GIS/IS for Planning and Transportation Speaker: Bill Johnstone, Principal Consultant, Spatial Vision Group Inc. Presentation 9:25– 9:55 a.m. Richmond Population Projections Using A Map Based GIS Model Speaker: Stuart Jones, Planner/Analyst, City of Richmond Presentation 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. View Protection and Analysis in the City of Vancouver Speaker: Dan Campbell, Graphics Planner, City of Vancouver Presentation 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. Morning Coffee Break 10:50 - 11:20 a.m. Long Range Planning: Land Use and Development Modeling Speaker: Terry Hoff, Senior Planner, City of Surrey Presentation 11:25 - 11:55 a.m. Real Estate Administration at the Vancouver Port Authority Speaker: Ron McMillan, GIS/LIS Coordinator, Vancouver Port Authority Presentation 11:55 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch Break 1:15 - 1:45 p.m. Transportation and GIS - Slowing us down or Speeding us up? Speaker: Gary Vlieg, Traffic Operations Manager, City of Surrey Presentation 1:50 - 2:20 p.m. The 2003 Greater Vancouver Regional Travel Time Survey Speaker: Clark Lim, Senior Transportation Engineer, TransLink Presentation 2:20 - 2:40 p.m. Lemonade Break 2:40 - 3:10 p.m. Harnessing GIS Technology in Transportation Planning Speakers: Dylan Houlihan, Transportation Planner, Craig Polzen, GIS Coordinator, Urban Systems Presentation 3:15 - 3:45 p.m. InSAR - A Tool for Development Planning and Asset Management of Infrastructure Speaker: Brian Young, Principal, Brian Young Consulting Presentation 3:45 - 4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks and Door Prizes