Awards 2020

Mr. Richard B. Easley E-Squared Engineering  

Richard B. Easley is the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Service ITS Canada Member Award. Richard has a BS and MS in Engineering (UT at Austin), an AAS in Civil Engineering Technology and an AS in Mathematics. He is a member of the Order of the Engineer. Richard is the President of E-Squared Consulting Corporation. For 22 years, he has led his company’s ITS efforts on projects in 33 U.S. states and 22 countries.  Read more...

EcoDrive II  City of Ottawa

The EcoDrive II project is the winner of the 2020 ITS Project/Program Award. In 2019, the City of Ottawa conducted a pilot project, named EcoDrive II, to investigate the potential environmental and fuel efficiency benefits of giving City fleet drivers advanced signal information across its entire 1,200 traffic signal system. Read more...

A Real-time Multi-Modal Traffic Monitoring System based on 3D Lidar Technology 
Blue City Technology

The 2020 Canadian ITS R&D/Innovation Award recipient is “A real-time Multi-Modal Traffic Monitoring System based on 3D Lidar Technology” submitted by Blue City Technology. Blue City is a start-up founded in Q2-2018 based in Montreal, Canada. The idea was based on more than six years of research and development as a part of the founder’s Ph.D. thesis at McGill University on the traffic management and monitoring field. Read more..

Information Fusion in Detection, Recognition and Classifications of Road Infrastructure from Remote Sensing Data
University of Alberta

The 2020 Canadian ITS R&D/Innovation Award recipient is “Information Fusion in Detection, Recognition, and Classification of Road Infrastructure from Remote Sensing Data” submitted by the University of Alberta. Alberta Transportation sponsored the feasibility study (concluded in March 2018), and a potential application in noise modeling was explored with a Canadian industry partner through the NSERC Engage program (concluded in August 2018). Read more..

Mr. Kevin Henry, PhD, ESCRYPT
 

Kevin Henry, PhD is the recipient of the 2020 ITS Canada Young Professional Award. Kevin holds a B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Brandon University, and an M.Math and Ph.D from the University of Waterloo, Kevin currently works as a Security Consultant and Software Developer for ESCRYPT, based in Waterloo. Read more..