En 2018, le Canada a accueilli plus de 21 millions de touristes, un record jamais atteint auparavant, contribuant ainsi à près de 2% du PIB national. Il est essentiel pour les compagnies des industries du secteur tourisme de comprendre et connaître le comportement de leur clientèle. Toutefois, deux problèmes majeurs se posent pour la réalisation d’analyse […]

State-of-the-art forecasting: Demand planning is a critical part of a business’ operations. Traditional approaches to forecasting use statistical methods to predict future demand from past transactions, but do not take into account contextual data. However, there are good reasons to believe that contextual data – such as weather, events, product descriptions, sentiment analysis (from reviews, […]

Le commerce électronique est de plus en plus prisé par les consommateurs québécois, mais une majorité d’entreprises accusent un retard technologique pour répondre adéquatement à cette demande croissante. La multiplication de la livraison de colis à travers le Québec engendre des défis logistiques tant pour les entreprises, les consommateurs que les villes et les entreprises […]

Le transport adapté des personnes ayant des besoins particuliers est une activité qui demande des outils et méthodes de planification différents du transport collectif régulier. Dans ce projet, nous proposons trois éléments : 1) des modèles de prévision de la demande de transport adapté à court et moyen terme, 2) un outil de planification permettant […]

Ce projet vise une meilleure utilisation des constituants du cannabis et de leurs composés actifs dans le domaine alimentaire, les cannabinoïdes (THC et CBD), qui sont des molécules lipophiles en les protégeant sous la forme d’une nanoémulsion et en les stabilisant sous forme d’une poudre qui pourra facilement être transportée, entreposée et reconstituée. La nanoémulsion […]

The aim of this research project is to focus on several key train stations and to evaluate the regional environment the station is situated in order to identify and characterize the various stakeholders involved and assess the potential for the creation/activation/participation of new partnerships along the primary axes of sustainable mobility, customer and community experience. […]

L’analyse des accidents de navires indique que 80% des accidents ont pour origine un problème de facteurs humains et que la mauvaise conscience de la situation de la part du pilote est le facteur causal principal à l’origine de ces accidents (C. C. Baker & McCafferty, 2005; Barnett, 2005). La conscience de la situation est […]

User needs analysis is a major concern in innovation projects and needs analysis methods differ in level of details, information overview, structure, interrelations, transparency, and ease of use. Depending on the project, the involved stakeholders, the required level of details, and time constraints, it is not clear which method should be used and why. The […]

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The H2M project, with the assistance of University of British Columbia Okanagan, will demonstrate a scaled down fuel cell powered rail locomotive (Hydrail) (250 horse power) and solid-state hydrogen storage retrofit solution on a Southern Railway of BC (SRY) diesel-electric switching locomotive. If the scaled down trial is successful, the project will proceed to scale […]

Humic Land is a multi-purpose, 100% organic fertilizer that was produced from black peat using innovative technology that protects live soil microorganisms. It contains a microbial consortia that may produce plant-growth promoting substances, thereby acting as biological promotor of crops growing in stressful conditions. This research will evaluate three mechanisms that could explain Humic Land’s […]

To make best use of technology on available big data (e.g., airport parking reservation data), we design and develop an innovative big data science solution for constrained dynamic pricing for airport parking reservations in the proposed research project undertaken by the intern. From scientific point of view, such a solution is novel in the sense […]