Eric Hildebrand
Speciality: Highway Safety; Transportation Planning; Traffic Engineering
Background
- PhD, University of Waterloo
- BScE and MScE Civil Engineering, University of New Brunswick
- Professor Hildebrand has extensive consulting experience in the fields of Transport Safety and Traffic Engineering
Research interests
- Road Safety Engineering and Highway Planning/Design
- The Use of Microsimulation in Transportation and Traffic Planning
- Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction and Vehicle Crashworthiness
- Elderly Drivers and Mobility
- Traffic Engineering
- Road Safety Audits and Reviews
Courses taught
- CE 3201 Introduction to Transportation Engineering
- CE 5222 Traffic Engineering
- CE 6204 Transport Data Analysis
- CE 6214 Transportation Simulation
- CE 6223 Road Safety Engineering
- CE 6234 Intelligent Transportation Systems
- CE 6283 Transportation Policy
Chairs, memberships and groups
- Past President: Canadian Transportation Research Forum
- Transportation Association of Canada, Road Safety Standing Committee
- Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
- Canadian Society of Civil Engineers
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick
Recent publications
Taweel, R.J. and E.D Hildebrand, A Surrogate Safety Analysis of Pavement Markings in Multi-Lane Roundabouts, proceedings of the CARSP/ITE Canada joint conference, Winnipeg, MB, June 2023.
Hilebrand, E.D. and M.J. Stewart, The Impact of Different Road Characteristics on Lane Keeping Performance, proceedings of the Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference XXXI, Sudbury, ON, June 2022.
Northmore, A. and E.D. Hildebrand, Aggregated North American Safety Performance Functions for Signalized and Stop-Controlled Intersections, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 47, No. 6, 2020.
Hildebrand, E.D. and J.F. Morrall, Cross Slope and Climate Change: Implications for Highway Design and Road Safety, proceedings of the Transportation Association of Canada annual conference, September, 2021.
Mustafa, R, J.S. Christie, and E.D. Hildebrand, Developing an “Intelligent” High-fidelity GIS-based Travel Demand Model Framework for Improved Network-wide Traffic Estimation, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, DOI 10.1139/cjce-2019-0085, vol. 47, No. 8, 2020.
Northmore, A. and E.D. Hildebrand, Development of Collision Adjustment Factors for the Canadian Traffic Signal Warrant Matrix Procedure, presented at the Transportation Association of Canada annual conference, Vancouver, BC, September 2020.
Northmore, A. and E.D. Hildebrand, Intersection Characteristics That Influence Collision Severity and Cost, Journal of Safety Research,, Elsevier, The Netherlands, volume 70, pp. 49-57, September 2019.
McBride, H.D., E.D. Hildebrand, and J.S. Christie, An Objective Warrant System for Red Light Cameras, Proceedings of the Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference XXIX , Calgary, AB, May 2019.
Hildebrand, E.D., C. Sowers, Monitoring Driver Adaptation to a Two-Lane Roundabout with UAS, report chapter, “The Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems to Remotely Collect Data for Road Infrastructure”, World Road Association (PIARC), report 2018SP03EN, ISBN 978-84060-493-8, Cedex, France, September 2018.
Recent distinctions
Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions in the field of road safety presented by the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals at their annual conference in Winnipeg, June 2023.
Dr. Charles Miller Award for Best Technical Paper, Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals joint annual conference with ITE Canada, Winnipeg, June 4-7, 2023.
Sanford Fleming Award, for outstanding contributions to transportation engineering research and practice in Canada, awarded by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering at their annual conference in Vancouver, June 2017.
Award of Academic Merit for long-term contributions to the advancement of the academic field and development of future transportation leaders, Transportation Association of Canada, presented at the October 2012 Annual Conference in Fredericton, NB.
Dr. Charles Miller Award for Best Technical Paper, Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference, Banff, AB, June 10-14, 2012.
Eric Garland Teaching Award presented by the Civil Engineering Student Body, 2010, 2011 and 2013.
