James Christie

Background

• BScE CE, UNB - 1973
• MScE CE (Transportation), UNB - 1976
• PhD CE (Transportation), UNB - 1995
• 1974-84 Regional Systems Planning Engineer, New Brunswick Department of Transportation
• 1984-88 Senior Transportation Engineer and Head of ADI's Pavement Management Group
• 1989-June 2014 Professor of Civil Engineering, Saint John Campus, UNB; member of UNB Transportation Group
• July 2014 to present Honorary Research Professor; active member UNB Transportation Group

Research interests

• Transportation modelling and systems analysis
• Road and motor vehicle safety
• Transportation logistics and operations research
• Infrastructure management systems and cost-effectiveness analysis
• Marine and intermodal transportation

Memberships

• Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick
• Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
• Canadian Transportation Research Forum
• Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals

Research publications

John, P., Christie, J. S. and Ircha, M. C. 2010. Places of refuge for ships in need of assistance in Canada:Policy lessons from other Maritime nations, CTRF 2010 Proceedings: Transportation and Logistics Trends and Policies: Successes and Failures, Canadian Transportation Research Forum 45th National Conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 30 - June 2, 2010. (Presentation by Dr. Christie) Awarded the $1000 Ron Rice Prize, including a Certificate, for the Best Conference Paper Competition).

Trevor R. Hanson, James S. Christie, Eric D. Hildebrand. 2011. Implications of Stagnant Reporting Thresholds for Motor Vehicle Collisions, Proceedings of the Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference XXI, May 8-11 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia, published by the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals.

Philip John, James S. Christie, Michael C. Ircha. 2011. Places of Refuge: Port Suitability, published in the Proceedings of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum 46th Annual Conference, May 29 – June 1, 2011 Gatineau, Quebec; Conference Theme – Transportation and Innovation: the Roles of Governments, Industry and Academia. (Paper won the Ron Rice Award for the Best Conference Paper; $1000 award plus Certificate)

Philip John, James S. Christie, Michael C. Ircha. 2011. Port Risk Management Strategy, published in the Proceedings of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum 46th Annual Conference, May 29 – June 1, 2011 Gatineau, Quebec; Conference Theme – Transportation and Innovation: the Roles of Governments, Industry and Academia.

Ehsan Bagheri, Ming Zhong, James Christie. 2011. Growing the Historical Pattern for Improved Group Assignment and AADT Estimation Accuracy of Short-term Traffic Counts, published in the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering General Conference 2011, Ottawa, Ontario June 14 – 17, 2011.

Zhong, M., Bagheri, E. and Christie, J. (2011) Bayesian Approaches for Improving Assignment and AADT Estimation Accuracy of Short-term Traffic Counts, Presentation at CSCE – BJTU International Workshop for Urban Transportation Research, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, June 27, 2011

Bagheri, E., Zhong, M. and Christie, J. (2011) Improving Group Assignment and AADT Estimation Accuracy of Short-term Traffic Counts using Historical Seasonal Patterns. Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (2011 ICTIS), Wuhan, China, pp. 1548 -1554, June 30 – July 2, 2011.

Zhong, M., Bagheri, E. and Christie, J. (2012) Improving the Accuracy of Assignment of Short-term Traffic Counts and AADT Estimation Using Historical Seasonal Patterns and Bayesian Statistics. Paper accepted for publishing in the proceedings of 2012 8th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Studies (ICTTS 2012), Acceptance date: Feb. 29, 2012, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

Bagheri, E., Zhong, M. and Christie, J. Improving the Accuracy of Assignment of Short-term Traffic Counts and AADT Estimation Using Pattern Matching Algorithms and Bayesian Statistics. Paper accepted for publishing in Journal of Transportation Engineering (submitted: Feb. 22, 2012, accepted: Nov. 26, 2012) (Impact factor: 0.785).

Bagheri, E., Zhong, M. and Christie, J. (2012) Spatial Analysis of Traffic Growth and Variations and Their Implications to the Operations of a Traffic Monitoring Program, Paper submitted to 2012 Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Annual Conference, Submission date: March 30, 2012. Final paper accepted and Dr. Ming Zhong presented at the conference October 14-17, 2012.

Paradis, D., Hildebrand, E. and Christie, J. (2013) Deterioration of Traffic Sign Retroreflectivity in New Brunswick, Proceedings of the 23rd Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference, Session 9A pp.1-13, May 26-29, 2013 (presented by Dr. Eric Hildebrand).

Bagheri, E., Zhong, M., and Christie, J. (2013) Comparison between the AADT Estimation Accuracy and Group Assignment of Short-Term Traffic Counts using FHWA, Non-Bayesian, and Bayesian COV-Pattern Group Methods, Refereed Conference Proceedings CSCE 2013 General Conference, GEN-76, Transportation Engineering and Policy Making Session 4, May 29 to June 1, 2013, Montreal, Quebec. (Presented by Dr. Ming Zhong), published on behalf of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering by Curran Associates.

Paradis, D., Christie, J. And Hildebrand, E. (2013) Implications For Traffic Sign Management Given Proposed Minimum Retroreflectivity Guidelines For Canada, Canadian Transportation Research Forum Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference: North American Competiveness in Global Trade: The Role of Transportation, June 9-12, 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia, pp.214-226 . Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Printed by IslandBlue Printorium Bookworks, Victoria, BC ISBN978-0-9867070-4-9 (also available on USB media) (presented by Dr. James. S. Christie, June 10 2013)

Rwakarehe, E.E., Zhong, M. And Christie, J. (2014). Identifying Road Sections with Similar Traffic Axle Loading & Distribution Pattern Using a Freight Demand Model and Vehicle Classification Count Data. Proceedings of the CSCE 2014: 10th International Transportation Specialty Conference, Halifax, May 28-31, 2014 (presented by Eradius Rwakarehe).

Rwakarehe, E. E., Zhong, M. And Christie, J. (2014). Development of a Freight Demand Model for the Province of Alberta Using Different Public Sources of Data. Journal of Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 138, pp. 695-795.

Kaitlin Hazzard, Eric Hildebrand and James Christie. 2016. A Warrant System for the Use of Speed Display Signs in School Zones, Paper prepared for presentation at the New Research and Developments in Road Safety Session of the 2016 Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada, Toronto, ON (presented by Eric Hildebrand).

Ghanbari, Arash; Sanchez, Xiomara; Hildebrand, Eric and Christie, James. 2018. THE IMPACT OF PAVEMENT CONDITION ON ROAD SAFETY IN NEW BRUNSWICK, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering: 2018 Annual Conference - Building Tomorrow’s Society and 12th Transportation Specialty Conference, June 13 – June 16, 2018, Fredericton, NB Canada (presented by Xiomara Sanchez).

Christie, James. 2018. VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS: TRUE OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering: 2018 Annual Conference - Building Tomorrow’s Society and 12th Transportation Specialty Conference, June 13 – June 16, 2018, Fredericton, NB Canada.

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.

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.