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Welcome to Transport Action Canada
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Transport 2000 Canada, the nation's leading citizen transportation advocacy
group, is now Transport Action Canada. The name may be new, but
our mission remains the same since our founding in 1976: to seek sound
transportation policies, practices and services which improve the quality
of life for all Canadians.
Please update your contact lists with our
new name and new website address: www.transport-action.ca.
Also, please note our updated contact information.
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From our Distinguished Research Fellow
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Dr. Barry Wellar is Transport Action Canada's Distinguished Research Fellow.
He has provided numerous papers and presentations on transport-related
topics, especially with a geographical viewpoint.
His latest paper (21 May 2010) is
Further Analysis of HOV Lane and Sustainable Transport Failures
in Ontario: Ottawa Case Study
(21 May 2010)
Also see his previous papers:
Measures To Mitigate Intersections That Are Conflict Zones For
Pedestrians -- Panel Presentation, and
Measures To Mitigate Intersections That Are Conflict Zones For
Pedestrians -- Background Guide
(Dr. Wellar participated in the Jane's Walk 2010 event 1-2 May 2010
Ottawa. These documents represent his panel presentation for the occasion.)
Dr. Wellar is also the director of
Transportation Day
of Geography Awareness Week, which demonstrates the many connections
between geography and transportation.
Learn more about Dr. Wellar and his
publications...
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Latest news
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Headlines from the latest Transport Action Hotline,
18 June 2010:
- 1 - 157 Canadians were killed in air, rail and marine transportation incidents in 2009
- 2 - 2,767 Canadians were killed on-the-road in 2007, 194,177 injured, $80 billion in costs
- 3 - Report de la hausse de tarif pour les usagers du métro de Longueuil
- 4 - TransLink in the black thanks to Olympics ridership surge
- 5 - Make bus bays work, David Jeanes says
- 6 - Un système qui allierait le train léger et l'autobus : David Jeanes
- 7 - LRT affordability talk in Ottawa
- 8 - $400M Windsor-Detroit rail tunnel: $5 billion DRIC vote next week
- 9 - The Teamsters and the Tories: Amendments to the Railway Safety Act
[Hotline archives]
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Transport Action Canada is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is
research, public education and consumer advocacy. It promotes
environmentally-sound transportation solutions and gets actively involved in a
wide range of issues such as: public transportation, safety, accessibility,
energy efficiency, protection of the environment, intermodal cooperation and
government regulation.
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Keep Transport Action Canada moving...