Resources

This report summarizes the interviews of 29 senior executive women in the transportation industry to: understand career pathways and success factors, validate the challenges and barriers that exist for women entering and advancing in transportation careers, and gain insight on how to address these challenges and barriers.

The objectives of this briefing are to describe a typical order fulfillment process for a sale of bulk grain* to an international buyer and identify some of the key issues in the performance of the bulk grain logistics system.

In July of 2015 WESTAC began collecting CTA submissions into a publicly available compendium for Canadians and the transportation sector.

Throughout the region, the infrastructure and transportation systems vary considerably from one jurisdiction to another, yet are integrated and interdependent. Maintaining seamless, efficient transportation is vital to the West’s resource and manufacturing sectors.

Forty individuals from across western Canada and representing all six sectors (Air, Construction, Logistics, Marine, Rail and Trucking) in the Asia Pacific Gateway were surveyed or interviewed to gather their impressions about the current priorities in technology and innovation investments. 

This document is proposed as a Framework for a National Transportation Policy. The document lays out a vision and objectives, and provides some strategies that all transportation stakeholders across governments and industry can pursue to achieve the objectives.

WESTAC conducted one-on-one, in-depth interviews with 50 Canadian leaders in late 2004. They were a cross-section of interests with varying degrees of connection to the transportation sector. (available in french - contact admin@westac.com)

This report draws largely on existing research the describe a very complex grain handling and transportation system in a simple, easy-to-understand way. It is intended as a primer for the workshops where more detailed information may be used.