Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering
Transportation engineering
Sustainable Transport and Infrastructures
Research interests and affiliations
- Transport and well-being
- Travel behaviour
- Transport and children
- Sustainable development and transport
- Villes, Régions, Monde (VRM), Member
- Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en opérationnalisation du développement durable (CIRODD), Member
- Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), Member
- Centre de recherche en aménagement et développement (CRAD), Member
- Road Safety Research Network (RRSR), Member
- 1003 Transportation engineering
Publications
Biography
Owen is interested in how the built environment affects not just how we travel, but its impact on our lives through social, environmental, and economic impacts. He has also researched the role of information, in particular carbon dioxide, in transportation applications. Owen has published research on children’s travel (Canadian, British, Japanese and Swedish), life-cycle stages, cohort effects, information use for more environmentally friendly travel, and psychological impacts on the interpretation of CO2 information. He was a professor at Laval University from 2012 to 2018. Before that he held a research position at the Centre for Transport & Society in the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2012.
He has completed a PhD in Transportation Behaviour and Urban Management from Kyoto University in 2009, a Masters in Biomimicry from the University of Toronto in 2005, and undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan in 2001.
Education
- PhD in Transportation Behaviour and Urban Management, 2009
- Masters in Biomimicry, University of Toronto, 2005
- Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, 2001
- Bachelor in Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, 2001
Supervision at Polytechnique
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Ph.D. Thesis (3)
- Laviolette, J. (2023). Modelling the Factors Influencing Car Ownership [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Naseri, H. (2023). Optimizing Machine Learning Techniques to Better Understand Sustainability in Transportation Planning [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Sheikhmohammadzadeh, A. (2023). Developing a Systematic Procedure for Evaluating the Functions of Urban Streets by Observing their Users [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Laviolette, J. (2023). Modelling the Factors Influencing Car Ownership [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
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Master's Thesis (6)
- Verdier, J. (2023). Analyse de l'accessibilité piétonne dans le cadre de la ville des courtes distances et dans une perspective d'équité sociale : le cas de Montréal [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Alousi-Jones, M. (2022). L'influence de l'environnement bâti sur le niveau de satisfaction liée aux déplacements des Montréalais pendant la pandémie COVID-19 [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- El Murr, K. (2022). Modélisation de l'accessibilité aux parcs: intégration des attributs des destinations et des perceptions, besoins et préférences des individus [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Amiour, Y. (2021). The relationship between built environment characteristics and parents' perceptions of children's traffic safety for active travel [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Laffont, P. C. M. (2021). Quel est le potentiel des véhicules électriques pour atteindre les cibles de réduction de gaz à effet de serre ? Le cas de Montréal, Canada [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Miladi, M. (2021). Analysing Pedestrian Safety Behavior at Urban Signalized Intersections [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
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