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TRB 2026 Decisions Are InDecember 11, 2025
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Recognition by H漫画 for PhD Student WorkNovember 7, 2025听Congratulations to听听on graduating from H漫画's Civil and Resource Engineering program. We are thrilled to announce that he will be continuing at DalTRAC as a Postdoctoral Fellow! 听(Halifax, N.S.) |
CTRF Transport Canada Scholarship 2025-2026 RecipientMay 28, 2025听Congratulations to our graduate students Niaz Mahmud and Vajeeran听Arunakrinathan, who were awarded the CTRF Transport Canada Scholarship for the 2025/2026 academic year! (Ottawa, Ont.) |
听Throughout the years, DalTRAC's Pricipal Investigator Dr. Ahsan Habib has done interviews discussing different transport related topics. The DalTRAC lab has also been highlighted in the media for the work of its members.
News Highlights
| DalSolutions: Modeling the future of transportation in Halifax (Dal News, November 14, 2025) | 听(Metro News Halifax, et al., March 20, 2017) | 听(Halifax Examiner, August 12, 2016) |
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Recent News Appearances
May 25th, 2026"鈥淭hese kinds of intelligent systems 鈥� are the building blocks to a future regional transportation centre and a system that鈥檚 smarter, more responsive and more dynamic,鈥� said Tilley. Ahsan Habib, a transportation professor at H漫画 University, said the move is 鈥渁 good starting point鈥� for using technology to improve the transportation system." 鈥淭his type of [innovative traffic solution] technology is quite effective, particularly for the busiest corridors,鈥� he said in an interview." |
April 15th, 2026"The Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), focuses on Halifax Regional Municipality, with expansions in East Hants, West Hants, Chester and portions of Lunenburg, Kings and Colchester. The report notes that 63 per cent of Nova Scotians live in HRM and it notes that congestion in the area will only increase due to population growth. Transportation expert and professor at H漫画 University, Ahsan Habib, said that if all companies across HRM were to implement return-to-office measures, auto trips in the city could increase as much as 43 per cent." |
March 31st, 2026Exerpt from the article: "Habib said the current estimate for a total evacuation is 23 hours. That鈥檚 an eight-hour increase since 2017. The estimate assumes that around 100,000 people occupy the peninsula on the average weekday. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not the population that鈥檚 the problem here, it鈥檚 the network itself," said Habib. "Since we are a historic town, we retrofitted most of our improvements in roadways. There are not enough areas without queue-building [for traffic]." Habib said it鈥檚 good that Halifax Regional Municipality鈥檚 population is growing. But he said as HRM has added units, roads and neighbourhoods over the past decade, it has failed to properly account for the possibility of a mass evacuation into its plans." |
February 26th, 2026
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