Nov. 20, 2014: Invited Speaker: Planning and Developing Technology for Public Transit

Dr. Vincent Morency
Senior Manager, Metropolitan Transportation Agency (AMT)

Thursday, November 20, 4:00 p.m.
Room EV003.309

Abstract

This talk will address the subject of planning and developing technology for public transit. I will begin with an introduction on transit ITS followed by its deployment status in Canada. A regional ITS architecture for Greater Montreal will be provided followed by systems engineering perspective on a major infrastructure project with application for the Pie-IX BRT.

Biography

Vincent obtained his degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1998 and his Master’s degree in Management Science from the University of British Columbia in 2000. He started his career as a business process optimization specialist and evolved to project management positions in the fields of transportation, electronics manufacturing, software development, and new product development at Nortel Networks, Canadian National Railways, and HME/ClearCom.

Vincent joined AMT in 2011 as a Senior Manager in the Planning & Innovation group. AMT is a Québec provincial government agency with a metropolitan vocation to plan, coordinate, integrate and promote public transport services in close cooperation with its regional partners. He has both responsibility for the management of transit infrastructure development projects and the planning and development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) initiatives. His team promotes ITS internally and regionally, as well as manages the early phases of systems engineering from feasibility studies to detailed requirements and high-level design.