Transportation
Explore the trends, innovations, and challenges shaping the future of transportation.
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Blog Post Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas from 2024—plus 1 more for fun
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Blog Post Rethinking resilient infrastructure for transit in the face of climate change
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Blog Post Overcoming challenges in wind turbine transportation: Why route assessments are critical
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Video I’m an Innovator: Helping communities transition to electric vehicles more efficiently
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Published Article Delivering a Hawaii transit megaproject
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Published Article Consulting on complexities
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Blog Post Fueling the future: The promise of hydrogen fuel
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Webinar Recording Placemaking for innovation: Creating innovation ecosystems
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Blog Post Breaking down data silos in infrastructure asset management
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Blog Post Connecting the Canadian Arctic through infrastructure and Indigenous knowledge
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Blog Post Why progressive design-build is gaining traction in Canada
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Case Study A data-driven approach to transit planning and equity
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Published Article Project delivery, modernization, and more with Dena Abakumov
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Video Designing sustainability into Edmonton's LRT expansion
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Published Article Navigating volatile market conditions
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Blog Post Transportation planning strategies for the FIFA World Cup and major events
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Video Prioritizing environmental justice on a $3 billion transportation megaproject
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Video How Albany converted an underused highway ramp into a city park
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Podcast Stantec.io Podcast: Advanced Tech and Reality Insight
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Podcast Stantec.io Podcast: The Growth and Innovation Episode
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Published Article Public agencies test digital twin tool for improved asset monitoring
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Podcast Stantec.io Podcast: The Rail Episode
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Podcast Talking Transit-Oriented Development with Sisto Martello
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Blog Post Mobility hubs are the key to unlocking corridor development potential
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Published Article Precast, prestressed concrete I-beams for the Red-Purple Modernization Program
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Blog Post How do you create thriving, connected places? 5 ways to expand transit-oriented planning
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Video A better way to move people and goods at airports? Autonomous vehicles
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Video How drones are making bridge inspections safer and more efficient
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Technical Paper Supporting healthier and more resilient communities through investments in mobility
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Blog Post 5 key steps to put community at the center of transit and development
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Blog Post Zero emissions buses and the energy transition: How do transit agencies adjust facilities?
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Video Implementing AV Applications at Airports
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Published Article Consultant Q&A: Stantec's Firas Al-Tahan on Evolution of Mobility, Design-Build
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Video Improving transit safety and efficiency with the innovative Yard Control System
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Video Retrofitting Hammond, IN’s downtown core from car-centric to a walkable neighborhood
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Blog Post 3 steps to fully accessible and barrier-free transit
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Video Keeping communities connected through a modern bridge replacement
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Blog Post Fish passage: Fixing culverts is key to better stream habitat for salmon, other species
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Blog Post VR and community outreach programs: Building social acceptance with immersive technology
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Electrifying ferries can help us leverage crucial waterways while reducing emissions
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Published Article Development, Environment, Community: A Q&A with Stantec President and CEO Gord Johnston
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Blog Post 5 trends from CES that will majorly impact the built environment
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Published Article The Mighty Bus: Transit Hero of Our Growing Community
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Blog Post Today’s parking lots are tomorrow’s mobility hubs. Why is it a better use of space?
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Report Delivering the Goods: Urban freight in the age of e-commerce
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Blog Post When freshwater mussel surveys are needed, eDNA can show the way
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Report How data-informed mobility solutions create more equitable communities
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Published Article Nondestructive Testing: The key to bridge longevity
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Podcast Digital frontiers, reimagining science, engineering, and design
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Video Long Island Rail Road Third Track: expanding the busiest commuter line in the US
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Video Managing our Largest and Most Valuable Public Asset: Our Roadways
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Video Smart(ER) Mobility Respects the Past with Future Thinking
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Video Mapping the Route for a Zero-Emission Future
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Published Article How mega events can be catalysts for change
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Podcast The SCOPE Episode 2: Sustainable Streets
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Blog Post Putting the people back in operations and maintenance facilities
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Published Article Building an electric vehicle program: Where should cities start?
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Our approach: The Climate Solutions Wheel
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Video Constructing a new park and transportation corridor on Manhattan’s shore
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Video A new spin on an old bridge type for safer travel across Kentucky’s Green River
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Blog Post 4 ways to make sure your connected-infrastructure technology program is … well, connected
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Published Article A trip through British Columbia in the life of a shipping container
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Podcast What does the future hold for autonomous vehicle policy and funding?
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Published Article Urban highway removal projects are on the rise across America
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Article Stantec’s letter to the US Department of Transportation on its 2022-26 strategic plan
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Blog Post What is design automation, and how can you optimize it for your next project?
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Blog Post Railroad crossings: Involving locomotive engineers to better understand crash risks
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Report Quick and creative street projects
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Published Article Screening and Framework Considerations for a PEL Approach
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Webinar Recording Lateral structure jacking - how to install a railroad tunnel in a weekend
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Blog Post We can build healthier streets by prioritizing the human experience
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Blog Post EV is the bridge to transit’s AV revolution—and now is the time to start building it
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Blog Post A Smart(ER) approach to mobility: Prioritizing equity and resilience
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Blog Post How is transit responding to reopening?
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Blog Post Certainty in uncertainty: Machine learning can improve engineering decisions
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Blog Post Clean transport: Reducing carbon emissions on our roads
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Webinar Recording Demystifying Hydrogen Fueling for Transit Fleets
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Blog Post Tackling climate change: Identifying global opportunities in response to the IPCC AR6
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Blog Post Elevating mobility infrastructure into a destination of its own
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Blog Post 5 things to know before starting an ITS deployment
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Published Article New bridge inspection techniques increase speed, efficiency, and safety
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Published Article Everything’s bigger in Texas: How a P3 mega roadway project came to life
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Published Article Graeme Masterton talks commuter systems, working from home
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 13 | After the Reset
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Blog Post The port of the future: Secure, sustainable, and welcoming
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Webinar Recording Designing with equity in mind: Rethinking how we approach projects
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Presentation Designing for Impact: Hubs and Corridors
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Article Micromobility Q&A: Are we on the road to a future of connected, Complete Streets?
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Video Providing Transportation Lifelines for Central Hawke’s Bay
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Blog Post More than just another bus route: Can Bus Rapid Transit spur compact urban development?
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Blog Post Can we learn to share? How the sharing economy can help launch the mobility revolution
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Blog Post We can think differently to create more equitable outcomes in city building
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Blog Post Designing Complete Streets for towns and suburbs, not just for big cities
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 12 | Equity and Inclusion
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White Paper What business are airports really in?
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Published Article Living with Water in New Orleans
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Video Rolling out new mobility pilots
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Video Making mobility work for people
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Video Planning for the future of mobility
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Blog Post The American Rescue Plan Act: 4 questions to get thinking about infrastructure projects
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Published Article Examining alternative project delivery
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Podcast We need an EV charging renaissance
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Blog Post Completing the picture: The future of hydraulic modeling is two dimensional
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Blog Post 4 reasons why 3D modeling and BIM are the future of infrastructure design
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Video Stantec kicks off the United Nations’ Decade on Ecosystem Restoration RIGHT!
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Blog Post We can build better communities through landscape-led cities that focus on people not cars
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Blog Post Creating adaptable AV policy to match AV technology
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Article A Stantec review of global AV research
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Presentation Innovative design solutions for the future of micromobility
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Blog Post Sea change: 5 smart technologies to help us design better shipping gateways
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White Paper The Future of Mobility: Remaking Buffalo for the 21st Century
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Blog Post Building industry diversity: 5 ways to empower disadvantaged business enterprise firms
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Blog Post Working 9 to 5 has been a double climate change whammy
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Published Article Is this the beginning of a micromobility revolution?
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Video Bridging communities while improving multimodal transportation
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 10 | The Carbon Issue
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Blog Post Remaining hands-on while distanced: How to take design-build collaboration virtual
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Blog Post 5 ways effective program management supports project owners
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Blog Post Beyond Complete Streets: Could COVID-19 help transform our roads into places for people?
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Published Article Port of the Future
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Blog Post Collaboration, cost savings, and quality control: The benefits of CM/GC project delivery
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Published Article Long Island Rail Road Expansion is a medley of moving parts
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Blog Post Stantec survey: How will commuting patterns change due to COVID-19?
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Brochure Looking to launch Automated Vehicles in your community? We can help.
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Blog Post Building resiliency in transit design during COVID-19 and beyond
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Blog Post Delivering clean, smart and inclusive growth: Rebooting the transport and places skills agenda
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Blog Post Why COVID-19 should make transit rethink the fixed-route system
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Blog Post Decoding Transportation Innovation: Exploring the Path to Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility
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Blog Post Looking at our streets differently now and after COVID-19
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Blog Post Embracing the creative spirit: How the Tampa Idea Hackathon helped me to think differently
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Blog Post Lasers to the rescue: Using technology to collect essential data during COVID-19
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Webinar Recording Electric Futures
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 3): New infrastructure
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Blog Post 4 questions transit agencies need to ask themselves in the wake of COVID-19
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Published Article Published: Seize the Moment and Shift the Dial
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 1): Pandemic prevention
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Blog Post How will stimulus funding and post-COVID-19 recovery create a more resilient country?
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Article Bringing the Envision sustainable design framework to Europe
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Blog Post Your guide to resilient infrastructure planning and investments
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Video Dubai takes another step towards Self-Driving Vehicles
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Blog Post We need to start talking NOW about shared autonomous mobility—5 urban dividends
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Blog Post Does your city need a corridor study? Set the foundation for success with these 3 tips
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Published Article Published in ASPIRE: Full-Service Engineering
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Published Article Published in Engineering Inc: Tunnel Visions
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Blog Post Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas for 2019 (Plus 2 bonus items!)
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Seeing civic infrastructure differently
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Blog Post On the leading edge: Decentralized computing can transform smart-mobility infrastructure
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Blog Post Alternative project delivery is all about R&R—resourcefulness and repetition
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Blog Post Want to elevate your smart city planning game? This 7-step roadmap gets you hyperconnected
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Video What is a smart city?
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Transport planning and the need to deliver more housing
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Blog Post Review of BEN Oxford to Cambridge Corridor Development Conference
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Blog Post Discovering how “The Emily Test” can offer new—and better—perspectives to design
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Article Published in METRO: 4 Factors to Consider For Zero-Emission Bus Fleet Transition
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Blog Post World Cities Day: Here’s how we can build a better urban life for future generations
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Publication Community Futures: Think globally, act locally has never mattered more
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Article Published in METRO: Enhance station safety, security by designing for transit user experience
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Article Published in Railway Age: Transit-Oriented Development, Philadelphia Style
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: House calls of the future
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Blog Post What’s that car’s IQ?
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Blog Post The hidden climate impact of the Internet of Things
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Published Article Published in Logistics & Transport NZ: Using rail to take pressure off roads
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Blog Post Sidewalk Labs plan is setting a precedent in its approach to mobility
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Published Article Published in How We Respond: New Orleans Residents Respond to Flooding w/ Citizen Science
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Blog Post The connected, autonomous road ahead: Key challenges and opportunities for road operators
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Article Published in Canadian Consulting Engineer: Future City Planning
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Article Published in Railway Age: Transit Oriented Development – Chicago
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Video Evolving Cities: Infrastructure Update
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Presentation Presentation: Transit Oriented Development: Holistic Value Capture
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Published Article Published in NRU Toronto: Designing the smart city
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: 8 ways to design for density and live where the action is
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Blog Post How Indigenous and northern communities shape my professional philosophy as a planner
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Published Article Published in Planning magazine: May you live in interesting times
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Blog Post [With Video] 3 surprising things I discovered from hacking 21st-century city challenges
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Article Published in Metro Magazine: Retrofitting garages for zero-emissions buses
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Blog Post How to use limited funding to reduce road fatalities and injuries
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Published Article Published in Informed Infrastructure: Moving Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Forward
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Blog Post 3 steps to deploying an autonomous vehicle shuttle pilot project
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Article Published in Railway Age: TOD: How New York got it right
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Article Published in Railway Age: P3s key for Transit Oriented Development
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Blog Post [With Video] Envisioning the revitalized design of the Old Sacramento urban riverfront
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Embracing the unknown when thinking big data and smart cities
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Blog Post How can we build smart cities of the future?
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: How are we designing for livable cities today?
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Published Article Published in Railway Age: Innovation From a ‘P2’ System
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Published Article Published in Planning Magazine: Curb control
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: The future of green infrastructure
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Blog Post America is running out of engineers – here’s how we start recruiting more
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Blog Post [With Video] 5 ways to design a transit maintenance facility that’s also a people place
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Video All Things Urban: Joe Geller talks Stantec’s Urban Places
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Published Article Resiliency or sustainability: Which is most important when designing for transit agencies?
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Blog Post How to plan for the future of electric vehicles
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Blog Post Crazy airport runways: Landing on half a runway—why it’s business as usual in Alaska
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Blog Post Art and architecture meet in the desert
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Blog Post Downtown Columbus, Ohio: A case study in the mobility revolution
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Blog Post Joining America Walks opened my eyes—it’s a long path to genuine walkability for everyone
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Blog Post Merging design technologies helps fast-track transit project in fast-growing Seattle area
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: 7 facets of the changing airport
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: What happens when hospitals move out?
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Blog Post Budget 2018: A development & infrastructure view
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Blog Post Infrastructure: The most important conversation you’re not having
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Blog Post Planning for life beyond HS2
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Blog Post The science of wayfinding—a formula to increase transit ridership
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Blog Post 5 reasons to rent a bike instead of a car during your next business trip
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Blog Post Counting every space: What parking inventories tell us about cities
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Video Advancing our communities through increased mobility
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Blog Post Planning for the ups and downs of the general aviation market
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Blog Post EcoDriving can save you time, money, and effort—all while reducing your carbon footprint
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Blog Post Engineering the impossible at Nunavut’s Iqaluit Airport
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Blog Post Putting Places First
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Video The Future of Freeways: The Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles
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Blog Post The Road to Zero or the Road to Roadworks?
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Article Need to keep your community's bridges safe? Stantec is creating an app for that.
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Video David Dixon discusses the next generation of urban places at NZPI 2018
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Article International Downtown Association Report: The Value of U.S. Downtowns and Center Cities
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Blog Post The flying menace coming to a city near you!
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Blog Post In the battle of suburbs vs. cities, could both be winning?
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Blog Post Creating a new paradigm for traffic safety—trade the car for other transit options
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Blog Post Four questions we must answer to design truly smart cities
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Blog Post Looking back at Infrastructure Week: We have our marching orders—educate and advocate
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Switching on the off-season
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Blog Post Road kill: the creative destruction of an urban expressway reclaims a city’s soul
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Published Article Planning on the Cellular Level - Planning Magazine, May 2018
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Blog Post In the design realm, you must have the client’s trust before you can innovate
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Blog Post Urban Places Idea Lab: Tweaking plans, designs, and sustainability strategies
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Blog Post Connecting Canada from coast to coast to coast—completing a 60-year vision
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Video Adding value to our projects with 3D printing
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Blog Post Power poverty: the new paradigm for social and economic inequality of electric vehicles
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Blog Post What does Value of Downtowns report tell us about tomorrow’s cities and regions? (Part 2)
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Video It takes a village: Re-envisioning a main street in Rolesville, NC
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Blog Post Traffic management and preparing a city for the big game
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Blog Post King Cove Road: Balancing the needs of people and nature in remote Alaska
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Blog Post The healthy garden city
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Blog Post A bridge to the future: Direct-fixation rail helps Denver commuter project span challenges
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Blog Post 8 ways to raise expectations for commercial drone operators
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Blog Post Autonomous vehicles could ruin our downtowns. But not if we act now
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Blog Post Digging Deep into Data — How cell phone activity data enhances transportation planning
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Blog Post Observations from the middle seat: Why we’re feeling the squeeze when we fly
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Blog Post Garden cities: lighter, faster, cheaper
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Blog Post Garden cities & movement: achieving 'good growth'
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Blog Post Keeping an eagle eye on sustainable bridge design
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Video The first/last mile problem
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Blog Post Why your community needs its own Complete Streets design guidelines
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Blog Post Vehicle for change
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Blog Post Planning policy challenges of the garden city model
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The changing face of freight and logistics
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Blog Post Can you do your client's job?
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Blog Post What are your project delivery options for horizontal construction?
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Video Engineered with old tires
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Blog Post Communicating cars: Understanding the road to autonomous vehicles
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Published Article The next big disruption is here
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Video Engineers on rope
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Video Don't look down
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Blog Post A US Infrastructure Report Card 2017 preview
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Blog Post Turning transport planning on its head: part II
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Video How bridges stay healthy
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Blog Post Turning transport planning on its head: part I
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Blog Post How long is an airport’s runway?
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Blog Post Airport runway lights: What are they all for?
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Blog Post Airport runways: What do those big numbers mean?
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Blog Post Transit-Oriented Development (TOD): It’s not just about the station
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Interactive Quiz: Is your community automated vehicle ready?
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Interactive The Stantec Idea Hackathon: Big ideas for our biggest challenges
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Stantec ERA Issue 6 | The Climate Change Issue
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Interactive City Transit
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Interactive Mobility hubs are on the way
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Interactive Explore The Autonomous Vehicle City
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Interactive What is microtransit? How to integrate more riders into a transit system
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Interactive United for Infrastructure: Exploring our changing urban landscape
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Interactive Making urban places work for people