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Dr. Dominic Villeneuve
2023
October 27: Paid PhD opportunity: Developing a mixed (quantitative and qualitative) approach to understanding and predicting people's modal shift
As part of the research project announced on March 29, I am looking for someone to complete a PhD in Land Use Planning and Regional Development as part of the Carrot and Stick Project: Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions for sustainable mobility systems to reduce GHG emissions funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
If you would like to apply, please visit the job page on the Université Laval website. Please note that knowledge of French is a required for this PhD position.
October 27 2023: Impact Campus Podcast – transport actif à Québec : bilan et perspectives
sur les mobilités périurbaines et rurales
I took part in the recording of a podcast by Impact Campus, the student magazine of Université Laval, in which we discuss active mobility in general and the new cycle path on Chemin Sainte-Foy in particular. Podcast host Florence Bordeleau-G chats with me and Pierre-Luc Lachance, Lachance, Municipal Councillor for the district of Saint-Roch-Saint-Sauveur and Vice-Chairman of the Quebec City Executive Committee responsible for Mobility and Road Safety. Listen to the podcast here!
October 2023: Internal participation Chantier un campus vibrant
As part of its 2023-2028 institutional plan, Université Laval is launching six impact projects to provide ambitious roadmaps for achieving priority orientations, while giving ourselves the space to try, learn, create, innovate and co-construct our future. At the invitation of Mr. René Lacroix, Vice-Rector, Infrastructure and Transformation, I became a member of Chantier 3 - Un campus vibrant, whose objective is to develop a dynamic, human-centred living environment on our campus. One of the committee's objectives is linked to my area of research and expertise, namely "Increasing active and sustainable mobility on campus." I welcome the opportunity to participate in the improvement and development of the campus.
September 21 2023: International Forum on Peri-urban and Rural Mobility
I took part in the scientific panel at the International Forum on Peri-urban and Rural Mobility organised by Accès Transports Viables, along with Jérôme Laviolette and Aurore Flipo. Congratulations to the organisers for a busy day full of discussions and meetings, and thank you again for graciously inviting the students from my planning and development laboratory, who are carrying out a project on the challenges of sustainable mobility in the suburbs.
June 2023: Community involvement Comité de la mobilité de la couronne nord de la Ville de Québec and Comité du Plan d'action de la Vision métropolitaine de la mobilité durable de la Communauté métropolitaine de Québec.
A professor's job is more than just teaching. In fact, a professor must perform four professorial functions on a daily basis: teaching, research, internal participation (in the administration and operation of the university) and external participation (with the scientific community and civil society).
It is in this latter capacity that I am actively involved in the work of two new committees. The Mayor of Quebec City, Bruno Marchant, invited me to join the Comité de la mobilité de la couronne nord de la Ville de Québec. Mr. Pierre-Luc Lachance, Municipal Councillor for the Saint-Roch-Saint-Sauveur district and Vice-Chairman of the Quebec City Executive Committee responsible for Mobility and Road Safety, has invited me to join the Quebec Metropolitan Community's Metropolitan Vision on Sustainable Mobility Action Plan Committee. It was with great pleasure and humility that I accepted both invitations.
April 26, 2023
As part of the research-action partnership process Aging well at home, I will be responsible for the research part of the offer of transportation-accompaniment services for seniors in La Matanie. This project aims to improve and align the basket of transportation-accompaniment services in the MRC de La Matanie in order to meet the specific needs that will be identified as part of the action research. This project is one of the eight components of the approach whose development and implementation was made possible thanks to $3.5 million in funding from the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation. The deployment of this project will take place during the period 2023-2026
March 31, 2023
I went to Joliette to present a conference on sustainable mobility in rural areas as part of the Consult-Action project - Lanaudière collective transport of Trajectoire Québec for which I acted as an expert. Thank you to the Trajectoire team for organizing this meeting and for carrying out this research project. You can find project details and research results here.
29 mars 2023
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada announces a $1.4 million grant to my Université Laval colleague, Professor Bobin Wang, to fund our Alliance research project entitled Carrots and sticks: assessing intervention effectiveness for sustainable mobility systems to reduce GHG emissions in partnership with Accès transport viables; Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain; Greenplay Inc. In addition to Bobin and myself, the project will be in collaboration with professors Geneviève Cloutier (Université Laval); Edward Owen Waygood (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Francesco Ciari (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Zachary Patterson (Concordia University). More details on this project can be found in the Research section.
2022
November 27, 2022
Journalist Flavie Sauvageau from Télléjournal Ici Québec came to meet my student laboratory essay team for a story on sustainable mobility. The report, broadcast on Radio-Canada, was also the subject of an article. Discover the members of my team and their research topic, which focuses on river shuttles on the St. Lawrence to connect the two shores and Île d'Orléans.
October 21 2022: Équiterre's Vélovolt project
I'm a member of the Comité régional Vélovolt de la Capitale national et de Chaudière-Apalache, where several partners from civil society, local governments and employers in the region meet to monitor the project in our greater region.
October 20, 2022
Broadcast of the episode Reinventing the transport of tomorrow! as part of the Objectif Monde program on TV5 Monde. I am one of the experts interviewed and in this episode, where my thesis director Vincent Kaufmann was speaking in the studio. You can watch the episode here.
September 22, 2022
At the invitation of the G15+ group, I made a presentation of the Mobility as a service (MaaS) concept at the first Rendez-vous du G15+ de la Capitale-Nationale. On this occasion, I had the honor of meeting Ms. Maude Mercier-Larouche, president of the Réseau de transport de la Capitale (RTC) and Bruno Marchand, Mayor of Quebec. Noovo has produced a report on the subject that you can watch here.
June 26, 2022
Broadcast of the episode on sustainable mobility of the documentary 800,000 neighbors, a new program broadcast on CCAP.tv. I am one of the experts interviewed and in this episode, I discuss with Catherine Boisclair (Urban planner and coordinator of the Oui dans ma cour! project at Vivre en ville) sustainable mobility and the challenges surrounding land use planning favorable to modes of transportrespectful of the environment.
June 23, 2022
Thanks to the Quebec Research Fund - Nature and Technology for granting a research grant of $353,060 to my colleague Professor Bobin Wang for her research project on the Quebec tramway, to which my colleague Professor Geneviève Cloutier from ÉSAD and I will contribute as co-researchers.
June 22, 2022
Congratulations to our new graduates of the master's degree in Land Use Planning and Regional Development who received their official diploma today as part of the 2022 graduation at the Center des congrès de Québec. You are the first cohort that I have had the pleasure of accompanying as a professor throughout your journey with us. Best of luck in your future careers.
March 31, 2022
Broadcast of the Lithium documentary produced by Radio-Canada Environnement et broadcasted as part of the Découverte TV show on public television. I discuss with the excellent journalist Maxime Corneau in order to compare our addiction to the car and that elsewhere and I compare electric cars to a e-cigarettes.