The 2005 Annual Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) was held in Calgary, Alberta, from September 18 to 21 under the theme Transportation - Investing in Our Future. Papers were presented at the following sessions and workshops: Opening plenary session; Public-private partnerships; How can we build a better business case for in-career training?; 2004 TAC Environmental Achievement Award nominations; From concept to completion - meeting environmental commitments in transportation projects; Management of salt-impacted water at maintenance yards; Innovative and emerging issues in geometric design; Installing roundabouts in Canada; Risk management in geometric design; weather and traveller information service deployments; Best practices in contracting routine maintenance services - from managed outsourcing to full private sector delivery; Guidelines for road features inventories; Road weather information as a decision-making tool in winter maintenance operations; 2004 TAC Sustainable Urban Transportation Awards; Building sustainable transprtation master plans - guidelines for Canadian communities; Emerging best practices in urban transportation planning; Moving toward sustainable urban transportation - progress, problems, and promise; Urban freight movement - investing in mobility; Accelerated pavement testing; Future directions in pavement surface characteristics; Very long-term life-cycle analysis of pavements - determining the true value of our investment; Direction 2006 - rail safety - reducing risks in your community through partnerships and technology; Towards a safer road network; Investing in traffic operations and management - innovative ideas and intelligent transportation systems; Traffic operations and management initiatves; Soils and materials - investing in new materials, products, and processes; and Innovations in bridge engineering. For abstracts of individual papers see C 42682 - C 42759 and C 43695.
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