|
About Dr. Barry Wellar
Dr. Barry Wellar is the Distinguished Research Fellow of Transport
Action Canada. He is a former professor of geography at the University of
Ottawa who today is the president of
Wellar Consulting in Ottawa.
He developed the
Walking Security Index for measuring the quality and safety
of urban pedestrian environments. Dr. Wellar is also director of
Transportation Day for
Geography Awareness Week
by the Canadian Association of Geographers.
Transport Action Canada is pleased to present the following selection of
Dr. Wellar's publications.
Publications
-
Further Analysis of HOV Lane and Sustainable Transport Failures
in Ontario: Ottawa Case Study
(21 May 2010)
-
Measures To Mitigate Intersections That Are Conflict Zones
For Pedestrians - remarks for Panel Presentation Jane’s Walk, 2010
(19 April 2010)
-
The Bottom Line in Tran$it Financing 101: They're All Taxpayer Dollar$
(5 February 2010)
-
Careless Driving and Public Safety: Curtail the Pandemic by Raising the Bar
(11 January 2010)
-
Analysis of Responses to
"Questions, Questions, and More Questions About Ottawa's LRT Plan,
2009 Edition" - follow-up to a June 2009 paper
-
Websites Selected for Transportation Day,
Geography Awareness Week 2009 (16-20 November).
These websites promote the natural connections between geography and
transportation. For further information, please see the Canadian
Association of Geographers
information page on Geography Awareness Week.
-
Questions, Questions, and More
Questions About Ottawa's LRT Plan, 2009 Edition"
-
"Enriching Sustainable Transport
Decisions: Inputs from Operations Research and the Managment Sciences",
presented at a June 2009 conference in Toronto.
-
With the completion of Dr. Wellar's Transport Canada project,
"Methodologies for Identifying and Ranking Sustainable Transport Practices
in Urban Regions", a resulting
list of reports is available.
-
Municipal Government
Participation in the Transport Canada, Project on Methodologies for Making
Decisions about Sustainable Transport Practices.
-
Dr. Wellar was commissioned by Transport Canada to conduct the study,
Methodologies for Identifying and Ranking Sustainable Transport Practices
in Urban Regions. The project began August 2008, and completed in
January 2009. A
list of reports is available, while individual publications may
be viewed at:
http://www.wellar.ca/wellarconsulting/
-
Cutting to the Chase in Designing
New Measures of Transportation System Performance, identifying
five catalysts for change in transportation thinking.
-
Outline for
Methodologies for Identifying and Ranking
Sustainable Transport Practices in Urban Regions.
-
Regarding the Roundtable on "Designing New Planning Measures of
Transportation System Performance" at the 2008 Joint
Congress, American Collegiate Schools of Planning and Association of European
Schools of Planning in Chicago, July 6-11:
Roundtable description, terms of
reference, names of presenters, and summaries of presentations.
-
9 December 1975: Ottawa Citizen column by Barry Wellar
titled, "Taking steps towards the end
of the automobile era", noting concerns about the state of the auto
industry, diminishing fossil fuel supplies, the need to get heavily
into the transit mode, impacts of urbanization processes,
etc. The column was re-published as part of a
Lecture program of the Association of American Geographers in Boston in
April 2008.
-
Report on Geography Awareness Week 2007:
"A Canadian Experiment in Geographic Matters - Theme Days
and Geography Awareness Week 2007", was published in the Winter/Spring issue of
ArcNews and can be viewed at:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/arcnews.html
-
Design of High Occupancy
Vehicle (HOV) and High Efficiency Vehicle
(HEV) Standards to Achieve Sustainable Transportat Best Practices
-
Call to Participate: Designing New
Planning Measures of Transportation System Performance (for planning
conference in Chicago, July 2008 - see Terms
of Reference document for additional detail)
-
Walkability papers:
Best Practices for Walkability
(PDF) and 2)
How Citizens Can Make a
Difference in Defining and Achieving Walkability (PDF).
-
January 2008: detailed submission to Ottawa City Council:
"An Advisory to Council About
Solving Ottawa's Transportation Mess".
-
December 2007: "Five
steps to get Ottawa out of its transportation mess" (as published in the
Ottawa News EMC)
-
Sustainable Transport by
Design or by Default? Either Way, the Wasteful
Ride Is Over - plenary presentation at 2007 TravelWise conference
in Belfast.
-
Background paper for 2007 TravelWise conference:
"Sustainable Transport: Is there
Anybody Here Who Can Win This Game?" (PDF format, 5 MB)
-
Poster Competition
details for Geography Awareness Week 2007
-
Getting to the Truth about "High Occupancy" Vehicle (HOV)
Standards
-
Fleming Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers in San Francisco, as presented 18 April 2007:
Sustainable Transport Best Practices and Geography: Making Connections
(PDF, 1.7 MB).
-
2007 Fleming Lecture in Transportation Geography at the
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco,
17-21 April 2007 - The Fleming Lecture is sponsored by the University of
Washington. Dr. Wellar is the recipient of the 2006 Ullman Award in
Transportation, and has also received the Anderson Medal, the Horwood Award,
and the University of Ottawa President's Award.
slides of Dr. Wellar's
Fleming Lecture, Geographic Factors as a
Core Element of Sustainable Transport Best Practices in Metropolitan Regions
in Canada. (PDF format, 1.7 MB).
-
2007 Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers in San Francisco:
PowerPoint slides of Dr. Wellar's
presentation, Adapting Walking Security Index Concepts and Procedures to
Serve and Promote the Mobility of Children (MS PowerPoint format).
-
Dr Wellar with and Nick Novakowski, Assistant Professor of Geography at
Memorial University:
Local Governments' Record of Assessing the Impacts of the High Tech
Industry on Ottawa's Land Use-Transportation Relationship: 1970s-2005
(PDF format).
-
Sustainable Transport: Does Anybody Here Know How to Win This Game?
(PDF format).
-
Sustainable Transport
Practices Harper Climate Change Agenda. (PDF format)
-
Sustainable Transport
Practices in Canada: Exhortation Overwhelms Demonstration (230k,
PDF format);
a White Paper on Canada's progress in achieving sustainable transport
practices, and an introduction to the elements of an action-oriented
research agenda.
|