E. PUBLICATIONS BY BARRY WELLAR, DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH FELLOW, TRANSPORT 2000 CANADA AND TRANSPORT ACTION CANADA, 2005-2016
During my term as Distinguished Research Fellow, Transport Action Canada, 2005-2016, a number of my published works were posted on the Transport Action Canada website. It was expected that they would continue to be posted on that website for access by individuals, public interest groups, government agencies, elected officials at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels, and business entities in Canada and abroad for research, policy, civil actions, conference programs, systems evaluations, media stories, transportation plan amendments, and other purposes.
However, Transport Action Canada changed its mandate in 2016, and decided to not provide an archival service for previously posted research materials. Consequently, in the interests of providing access to these reports, many of which are cited by Google, other search engines, dissertations, bibliographies, professional directories, and similar reference sources, the Wellar documents file was obtained from Transport Action Canada and migrated to this website. The file has been filtered to exclude productions which are listed elsewhere on these pages.
- Speed Limits and Road Safety: Examples of Questions to Ask to Ensure the Safety of Pedestrians (May 2015)
- Five Core Questions on Rail Safety (July 2014)
- Best Practices Framework Needed for Sustainable Transit in Ottawa (posted April 2013, originally published October 2006)
- An Opinion as to the Soundness of the Research Underlying the Decisions Made by Cabinet to Terminate The Northlander and to Divest the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (January 2013)
- An Opinion as to the Extent to which the Decisions by Cabinet to Terminate The Northlander and Divest the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Are Based Upon, Supported By, Justified By, or Are Otherwise Derived from Methodologically Sound Research (February 2013)
- Inventory of the Provided Studies and Other Productions Containing Evidence, Advisories, Recommendations, Opinions, Analyses, etc., Underlying the Decisions Made by Cabinet to Terminate The Northlander and to Divest the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (January 2013)
- Transportation Question Begs for an Answer: What's Behind the Nonsense about Traffic Gridlock in Canada? (11 January 2013)
- What's Behind the Nonsense About Traffic Gridlock in Canada? (December 2012)
- Two Questions that "Test" Passenger Rail Service Decisions Anywhere in Canada (from the National Dream Renewed Town Hall Meeting, Sault Ste. Marie, November 2012)
- Tracking the Motives Behind the Phony War on "Traffic Gridlock" (25 October 2012)
- Traffic Gridlock: A Bad, Mis-Leading Metaphor that Makes for Bad, Mis-Directed Public Policy (11 December 2011)
- Traffic Gridlock: The Real Deal or a Pile of Nonsense? (28 July 2011)
- Inspiring a Sustainability Action Agenda for the 2nd Annual Sustainable Community Summit (9 May 2011)
- Transport Action Canada Compendium of Transportation Research Topics: a new approach for new thinking (22 December 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)
- Questions, Questions, and More Questions About Ottawa's LRT Plan, 2009 Edition"
- Enriching Sustainable Transport Decisions: Inputs from Operations Research and the Management Sciences (presented at a June 2009 conference in Toronto)
- 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
- 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.
- Design of High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) and High Efficiency Vehicle (HEV) Standards to Achieve Sustainable Transportation Best Practices
- 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"
- 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?"
- 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
- Sustainable Transport: Does Anybody Here Know How to Win This Game?
- Sustainable Transport Practices Harper Climate Change Agenda
- Sustainable Transport Practices in Canada: Exhortation Overwhelms Demonstration (a White Paper on Canada's progress in achieving sustainable transport practices, and an introduction to the elements of an action-oriented research agenda)