In Europe and Asia, manufacturers are shifting transportation of their supplies and products from truck to rail to reduce both cost and environmental impact. Is the same shift occurring in North America?

Chris Aspila, official plan project manager and land information planner for the City of Windsor, will attempt to answer this question in his case study, entitled “Truck-Rail Mode Choice for Cross-Border Transportation between Ontario Canada and the USA: An Application to the Manufacturing Sector,” one of two to be presented on campus Thursday.

Part of the Transportation Seminar Series hosted by the Cross-Border Institute and the transportation group of the civil and environmental engineering department, “Special Topics in Regional Transportation Planning” is free and open to the public and begins at 3 p.m. January 30 in room 3000, Centre for Engineering Innovation.

Kevin Gingerich, a doctoral student of civil engineering and a research associate at the Cross-Border Institute, will present the second case study, “Mining Freight Transportation Activity Location, Type and Border Crossing Times Using a Large-Scale Passive GPS Dataset.”

Find more information, including abstracts for each of the studies, on the event website.