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Whats Happening at DalTRAC
TRB 2026 Decisions Are InDecember 11, 2025
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Recognition by Dalhousie for PhD Student WorkNovember 7, 2025Congratulations to Md Asif Hasan Anik, Ph.D. on graduating from Dalhousie's Civil and Resource Engineering program. We are thrilled to announce that he will be continuing at DalTRAC as a Postdoctoral Fellow! Read the full letter from President Kim Brook Here. (Halifax, N.S.) |
CTRF Transport Canada Scholarship 2025-2026 RecipientMay 28, 2025Congratulations to our graduate students Niaz Mahmud and Vajeeran Arunakrinathan, who were awarded the CTRF Transport Canada Scholarship for the 2025/2026 academic year! (Ottawa, Ont.) |
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) | Researchers developing disaster-planning tool that will work like a video game (Metro News Halifax, et al., March 20, 2017) | Halifax will finally get the data it needs to make smart decisions about transportation (Halifax Examiner, August 12, 2016) |
Recent News Appearances
'Intelligent' traffic lights coming to Macdonald bridge corridor (CBC News)May 25th, 2026"“These kinds of intelligent systems … are the building blocks to a future regional transportation centre and a system that’s smarter, more responsive and more dynamic,” said Tilley. Ahsan Habib, a transportation professor at Dalhousie University, said the move is “a good starting point” for using technology to improve the transportation system." “This type of [innovative traffic solution] technology is quite effective, particularly for the busiest corridors,” he said in an interview." |
Nova Scotia looking into transit options from rural communities to HRM (Seekr).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 Dalhousie 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." |
How long could it take to evacuate the Halifax peninsula? Nearly a day, says researcher. (CBC News)March 31st, 2026Exerpt from the article: "Habib said the current estimate for a total evacuation is 23 hours. That’s an eight-hour increase since 2017. The estimate assumes that around 100,000 people occupy the peninsula on the average weekday. “It’s not the population that’s the problem here, it’s 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’s good that Halifax Regional Municipality’s 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." |
Transit changes to expand service for rural students, add 24/7 airport route. (The Dalhousie Gazette)February 26th, 2026
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