News and Events
May 15, 2023 – Now is the Time…Technology is here for proactive safety
Join us on Wednesday, May 31st, to see our newest video analytics product focused on safety at railway crossings. See how the latest innovation from the TrafxSAFE product family can assist rail operators, transportation, and traffic engineers by detecting, logging, categorizing, and evaluating high-risk, non-compliant road user behavior at level railway crossings. Register herefor this special event!
April 12, 2023 – Now is the Time…Technology is here for proactive safety
Join us on Wednesday, April 26th where we will discuss the importance of using technologies such as AI Video Technology to make data-driven, proactive, efficient, and measurable decisions to prevent crashes from happening. Register for free here.
March 7, 2023 – How Richer Trajectory Data is Pushing Safety Analysis Forward
Join us on Tuesday, March 7th and discover how near misses and traffic conflict data are opening up additional opportunities for proactive road safety analysis. In this webinar, we will examine some of the key differences between traditional historical crash data and near-miss data, in particular the wealth of detailed spatial information that arises from the rich accompanying road user trajectory data, and how existing road safety analysis workflows may be adapted to unlock additional diagnosis power that arises with this new level of detail. Register for free here.
October 27, 2022 – Live Webinar: Proactive Road Safety Analysis and Your Community
Join us on Thursday, November 3rd for a discussion about proactive safety analysis and how it is being successfully implemented, from identifying and prioritizing high-risk intersections to validating safety improvements through before and after evaluations. Traffic engineers, transportation planners, and anyone responsible for the safe movement of all road users can leverage predictive analytics combined with their own expertise to reduce risk now instead of waiting for fatalities to happen. Register for free here.
June 17, 2022 – We’re a finalist in the BC Tech’s 2022 Technology Impact Awards!
Transoft is pleased to announce that we were named as a finalist in the ‘Excellence in Technology Innovation’ category of BC Tech’s 2022 Technology Impact Awards! We congratulate all our fellow finalists across the 12 award categories who truly exemplify this year’s awards theme of ‘ambition’! Read more: here.
May 5, 2022 – Live Webinar: | Fundamentals and Best Practices for Proactive Safety Analysis Using Video-Based Analytics
Every day, risky behavior happens on our streets and these events have the same components that contribute to crashes. Join us for a live presentation on May 5th and discover for yourself all the fundamentals, key benefits, and best practices of proactive analysis of dangerous road user behaviors to diagnose safety issues. You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of how to best utilize video-based technologies for your next road safety studies. Register today: here.
February 23, 2022 – Live Webinar: TrafxFLOW | Traffic Insights and Data for Your Multimodal Projects
Come and join us for this live presentation for TrafxFLOW, our on-demand, video-based solution that provides various traffic metrics through an online dashboard. With TrafxFLOW, you can quickly and easily extract turning movement counts, speeds and more to provide you with the best available data to import into your traffic studies! Register for free here.
February 3, 2022 – Transoft Solutions’ Patent Just Approved!
We’re extremely excited to announce that our latest patent has been officially granted! The patent describes the technological process that video data of intersections and roads undergoes in order to measure the continuous positions and speeds of any and all road users moving through a scene. This technology filters common sources of errors and problems related to data captured using video cameras allowing for more accurate and reliable findings that can help make roads safer for vulnerable road users.
September 20, 2021 – 2021 TAC Conference & Exhibition
Join Transoft’s Lana Samara and Alex Nolet from True North Safety Group for their live presentation on September 20: Benefits of Using Conflict Analysis Data at Sites with Low-collision Frequency. Register at tac-atc.ca
August 22, 2021 – CARSP/PRI Virtual Conference
Transoft is proud to sponsor CARSP’s 2021 virtual conference. Join Transoft’s Lana Samara and Nora Hallet from the City of Toronto for their live presentation on August 25th: Toronto’s Vision Zero Before-After Evaluation of a Left Turn Calming Pilot. Register at carsp.ca
August 10, 2021 – Webinar – Sneak Peek: TrafxSAFE | Best Practices for Video-Based Network Screening, Diagnosis & Evaluation of Road Safety Challenges
Join Lana Samara, Project Delivery Manager, to learn more about Transoft’s newest addition to the Transoft product family, and how transportation and planning practitioners can use TrafxSAFE to identify real issues affecting road safety and gain immediate insights to measure the safety performance of road treatments in a more scalable and affordable way. Register for free here.
August 5, 2021 – ITE New York Upstate Section Presentation: Applications of Video-Based Road Safety & Mobility Solutions
In this session, we will present new applications for video-based road safety and mobility analysis, while highlighting recent case studies demonstrating how AI technology is being used to improve safety and mobility in the US and worldwide. 1 PDH credit. Register here.
July 26, 2021 – Transoft Solutions Awarded the Edmund R. Ricker Award by ITE’s Safety Council
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) announced today that Transoft Solutions’ Video-based Network-wide Conflict and Speed Analysis to Support Vision Zero in Bellevue, WA, has been awarded the 2021 Edmund R. Ricker Award. The Safety Council Edmund R. Ricker Award is given to an organization that has provided exemplary support for traffic safety through financial support, public relations, or other means. Read the full press release here.
July 18, 2021 – ITE Annual Meeting
Transoft is proud to sponsor ITE’s Annual Meeting, Navigating a New Future – to be held virtually July 20-29. More information at iteannualmeeting.org
June 28, 2021 – Transoft Solutions named as finalist in IDC Smart Cities North America Awards 2021
Transoft Solutions named as finalist in IDC Smart Cities North America Awards 2021 for a first-of-its kind video-based network-wide conflict and speed analysis to support Vision Zero in the City of Bellevue, Washington: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS48032821
June 22, 2021 – Webinar: Proactive Road Safety Analysis Using Video Data
Dr. Alireza Jafari, Data Scientist & David Homola, Product Manager at Transoft Solutions explain how automated surrogate safety analysis can proactively examine road user behaviour to predict collision risk between pedestrians, cyclists, and motor vehicles. Watch the recorded presentation here.
June 16, 2021 – Transoft Safety Lab Road Safety Workshop 2021
The Transoft Safety Lab hosted its inaugural TSL Road Safety Workshop on June 16th. If you’re a transportation practitioner or researcher interested in advancing your understanding of new tools and approaches to evaluating the safety performance of transportation decisions on all road user types, then you’ll want to watch the recorded sessions and lively panel discussions: Impact of Road Design and Technology on Vulnerable Road Users and Emerging Technologies in Transportation Planning, Engineering & Safety.
June 10, 2021 – TAC 2021 Road Safety Engineering Award Finalists Webinar
This webinar presents three of the six finalists for the 2021 TAC Road Safety Engineering Award, which recognizes a member organization for an outstanding road safety engineering initiative that has contributed to improved safety on Canadian roadways. Access the recorded presentation through tac-atc.ca.
June 8, 2021 – ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development
Join Transoft’s Project Delivery Manager, Lana Samara, and Franz Loewenherz, Principal Transportation Planner at the City of Bellevue for their presentation, Using Video Analytics to Improve Transportation Safety available on-demand from June 8-10. More details available at asce-ictd.org/
May 26, 2021 – Webinar: BriskLUMINA | Evaluating infrastructural interventions on cycling safety using surrogate safety measures
Join Dr. Matin Nabavi Niaki from the Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV) and Transoft’s Julie Levy as they explain how using Transoft Solutions’ BriskLUMINA software provided detailed data about road users and conflicts, and how those results were used to effectively answer their research questions.
May 13, 2021 – ITE Northeastern District Meeting
Transoft’s Alireza Anarkooli and Mohamed Elgaty, presented during ITE’s Virtual Northeastern District Meeting 2021: Applications of Video-Based Road Safety & Mobility Solutions. See full program on ITE.org.
March 30, 2021 – ITE Virtual Drop-In: ITE Virtual Drop-In: Correlating Conflict Severity with Collision Risk
Over the last five years, Transoft Solutions has collected thousands of hours of traffic video footage, tracking millions of interactions among a wide variety of sites, scenarios, and road user types. Preliminary research already indicates that conflicts are a strong predictor of future crashes. However, the exact nature and specification of the relationship between crashes and conflicts are not yet sufficiently understood. Can we gain more insight by specifically studying conflict severity as an indicator of the risk of collisions? Join Alireza Jafari on March 30 to get a glimpse into the cutting-edge research Transoft Solutions is doing with the hopes of someday predicting collisions before they happen. Register at ITE.org.
March 25, 2021 – Transoft Solutions and Region of Durham Detecting Road Safety Issues in Real-Time with Ontario Government Support
Transoft Solutions (ITS), developers of transportation engineering software and road safety analytic technology, is working in partnership with the Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN), led by the Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI), on developing an innovative crash risk prediction system, which includes near-miss notification alerts to improve traffic safety across the Regional Municipality of Durham. Read the full press release here.
February 24, 2021 – Webinar Presentation: TORUS + BriskLUMINA | Designing Roundabouts with Safety Performance in Mind
Nominal and substantive safety are both vital components of the complete design lifecycle of any road infrastructure, including roundabouts. Join transportation engineers, Paul St-Aubin and Anoosh Hafezi, to learn how Transoft’s TORUS and BriskLUMINA solutions help practitioners diagnose safety issues at existing sites, build and then re-evaluate roundabout design using actual observed road user interactions, so that roundabouts can be designed with safety performance in mind. Register here.
February 18, 2021 – The 2021 TSMO Award runner up for ‘Best TSMO Project’ is: City of Bellevue, Washington
Read the case study: “Accelerating Vision Zero with Advanced Video Analytics: Video-based Network-wide Conflict and Speed Analysis” here: https://www.transoftsolutions.com/transoft-2021-best-tsmo-project/
February 11, 2021 – ITE MET Technical Conference: Recording Available
February 5, 2021 – World Bank Transforming Transportation: Reimagining Safe and Resilient Mobility for Recovery
Transforming Transportation 2021 will bring together sustainable mobility world leaders from the public, private, academic and civil society spheres in a global virtual event to discuss the path forward. Transoft Solutions is proud to participate in a panel discussion around Innovative Data. For registration details please visit World Bank Transport Global Practice.
January 21, 2021 – Announcing Transoft’s Support for the ITE Vision Zero Design Sandbox Competition
ITE is now accepting expressions of interest for this year’s Vision Zero Design Sandbox Competition (supported by ITE’s Consultants Council). Transoft is pleased to participate alongside the City of Bellevue in this initiative, with our video-based road safety solutions being the key analytics tool for participants.
Read the full press release here .
January 19, 2020 – Visit Transoft Solutions at TRB 2021
Join us at TRB! Stop by our booth and our poster session Jan 25th. There will be a live Q&A with Transoft’s Project Delivery Manager, Lana Samara and Franz Loewenherz, Principal Transportation Planner at the City of Bellevue, who can tell you about the cutting edge video analytics work we’ve completed in Bellevue with support from Together for Safer Roads.
December 9, 2020 – CARSP Presents: Supporting Vision Zero using Video-Based Surrogate Road Safety Techniques
Last year Transoft Solutions (ITS), the City of Bellevue in Washington, and Together for Safer Roads partnered on a first-of-its kind, citywide analysis of traffic camera video with the goal of improving safety for all road users. Franz Loewenherz, Principal Transportation Planner for the City of Bellevue and Lana Samara, Transoft’s Project Delivery Manager share their collaborative efforts in applying cutting edge technologies for safer roads. Access to recording on CARSP.ca
November 3, 2020 – ITE Road Safety Fundamentals Webinar Series – Safety Analysis Tools
Transoft’s Paul St-Aubin along with the Federal Highway Administration’s David Petrucci discuss current and newly available tools, methods, resources, and technologies to conduct roadway safety analysis and improve your decision-making. Access to recording on ITE.org.
October 19, 2020 – Roads & Bridges Infrastructure Virtual Summit Oct 28
Charles Chung, VP Transportation Safety at Transoft Solutions (ITS), along with Eleni Pappas, Principal at Traffic Engineers, Noah Budnick, Senior Director of Programs & Operations at Together for Safer Roads, and Franz Loewenherz, Principal Transportation Planner at the City of Bellevue present: “The Ground-Breaking Impact of Studying Near-Misses to Help Forecast and Ensure Road Safety: https://www.roads-water-summit.com/2020/
October 8, 2020 – Seattle Times: Bellevue uses AI technology to identify problem intersections and make them safer
“The analysis of 5,000 hours of traffic-camera video and millions of trips by car, bike and on foot found that near misses in which crashes nearly occur are a reliable predictor of where future collisions will happen.” Read the full article here.
October 5, 2020 – American Planning Association (APA) October 2020 Planning Edition: The Art of Learning by Example
“Planning for a future when computers can see: practical intersections of planning practice and AI.” Transoft is proud to be part of this proactive road safety revolution with transportation planners and engineers at Fehr & Peers, City of Bellevue, WA, and Together for Safer Roads. Read the full article here.
October 1, 2020 – World Bank Group using BriskLUMINA to diagnose road safety challenges and to determine the effectiveness of implemented treatments on vulnerable road users
Transoft Solutions (ITS) is thrilled to announce the completion of a 25-site deployment with World Bank Group in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “…Surrogate safety metrics and baseline video footage collected from 25 intersections and roundabouts in the city helped guide us in identifying the top priority intersections which needed to be equipped with medians and traffic signals…” – Nino Pkhikidze, Economist at World Bank Group
September 22, 2020 – Webinar Presentation: BriskLUMINA | Completing In-Service Road Safety Reviews Using Traditional & Video-Based Surrogate Safety Techniques
Webinar Recording with True North Safety Group Now Available – BriskLUMINA | Completing In-Service Road Safety Reviews Using Traditional & Video-Based Surrogate Safety Techniques. Access here.
September 9, 2020 – Visit Transoft Solutions at TAC 2020
Transoft Solutions, Inc. is proud to be a patron partner at the 2020 TAC Conference. Please drop into the Emerging Topics in Road Safety session on speed management moderated by our Sr. Product Manager, Transportation Safety Paul St-Aubin on Sept 23 with transportation experts from ISL Engineering, Land Services Ltd, PBX Engineering, City of St. Albert, and British Columbia Ministry of Transportation. Learn more about the program and registration: https://lnkd.in/e5_uW5Q
August 19, 2020 – Gov Tech: Video Analytics Traffic Study Creates Baseline for Change
“By measuring vulnerable road user safety at-scale, in ways that weren’t possible even a few years ago, we’re making the invisible visible and giving city leaders foundations to make data-driven decisions around infrastructure and safety…”. Read the full article here.
August 6, 2020 – Smart Cities Dive: Houston Votes to Put the Emphasis on Walking in Future Development
Houston has a long-time reputation of being a car-centric, fossil fuel-dependent city, but leaders are working hard to alter that. Earlier this month, the Houston City Council unanimously voted to clear the way for more pedestrian-friendly and transit-oriented development, in a bid to make streets safer for people to walk along. Transoft is proud to work with progressive cities like Houston!
Learn more about the automated road safety studies completed with Houston Public Works and Together for Safer Roads: City of Houston & Together for Safer Roads | Road Safety Improvement Study for Vulnerable Users
July 22, 2020 – How Brisk Synergies Meets Traffic Fatalities – and Builds Safer Cities – Head On
Transoft Solutions, Inc. is proud of Brisk Synergies being a recent addition to our growing transportation safety portfolio. Read about how Charles Chung, Head of Transoft’s Traffic Safety unit, got his start in developing technology that contributes towards collision prevention and safer streets: How Brisk Synergies Meets Traffic Fatalities – and Builds Safer Cities – Head On
July 21, 2020 – Accelerator Centre announces graduation of Brisk Synergies from The Accelerator Program®
The Accelerator Centre (AC) today announced its newest graduate of The Accelerator Program®, Brisk Synergies (now Transoft Solutions). The Accelerator Program is dedicated to building and scaling sustainable, globally competitive companies and giving startups the highest probability of long-term success through its curriculum-based programming and continuous one-to-one mentorship from proven industry experts.
We are so thankful to the amazing group of mentors and staff at the Accelerator Centre who have helped Brisk Synergies grow over the last 2+ years.
Read the entire Accelerator Centre’s press release here.
July 16, 2020 – Transoft Solutions Making News with the Recent Vision Zero Partnership
The premier study involving the partnership of Transoft Solutions, the City of Bellevue, Washington and the Together for Safer Roads group is making the rounds on various media outlets. The innovative project supporting Vision Zero initiatives, analyzed over 5,000 hours of citywide traffic camera video footage. The study lead to some very eye-opening findings that could have considerable implications on the way a city can prevent major traffic accidents before they happen.
See what others are saying about this important study. Read GeekWire’s article here and Streetsblog’s report here.
April 27, 2020 – Urban Mobility and Safety in a COVID-19 World: Adapting to the New Normal
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, streets, transportation systems, and public spaces will need to adapt to the new reality both during the pandemic and in the recovery stages. Transoft Solutions is here to help city planners and engineers better manage the upcoming months and the year ahead, by providing data about the new state of your streets and public spaces, helping you adapt accordingly. Find out more here.
July 13, 2020 – Ground-breaking Study Demonstrates Traffic-cam Monitoring is Effective Way to improve Road Safety
Transoft Solutions, City of Bellevue, Together for Safer Roads collaborate on Vision Zero project
Transoft Solutions Inc., developers of transportation engineering software and road safety analytic technology, the City of Bellevue, Washington and the Together for Safer Roads coalition have partnered on a first-of-its kind, citywide analysis of traffic camera video with the goal of improving safety for all road users. The results of this project have been published in three technical reports, plus an executive summary, that are now available to the public.
Read the full press release here: https://www.transoftsolutions.com/ground-breaking-study-demonstrates-traffic-cam-monitoring-is-effective-way-to-improve-road-safety/
April 1, 2020 – Brisk Synergies Changes Name to Transoft Solutions (ITS) Inc.
We are pleased to announce that we are changing our company name from Brisk Synergies to Transoft Solutions (ITS) Inc., effective immediately. The name change is a result of Transoft Solutions’ acquisition of Brisk Synergies which took place in January 2020. This new direction reflects both the evolution of the company as well as its vision for the future ─ to provide clients with intelligent transportation solutions for safe and sustainable transportation networks.
Now, as a combined company, we back our dedication to client success with an even stronger set of credentials – seasoned leadership, deep transportation expertise, innovative vision analytic technology and intelligent transportation software.
Over the course of nearly three decades, Transoft Solutions has developed a variety of innovative software products for the transportation engineering community. We thrive on making a difference for our clients by focusing our energy and passion on delivering the insights and outcomes that matter most to transportation professionals.
We will continue to provide excellent service to our customers, vendors, and partners with our new business identity. You will start seeing Transoft Solutions (ITS) Inc. new brand introduced in marketing collateral, website, and on all business correspondence.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions, please contact us at info.its@transoftsolutions.com
February 11, 2020 – Brisk Synergies is live to air on Tech Spotlight
570 News produces a live to air weekly interview segment on technology news in the Waterloo Region. Listen to last week’s segment with Brisk Synergies’ Channel Partner Manger, Terezinha Hignett. Host, Brian Bourke and Terezinha discuss the importance of new ways to improve pedestrian safety and the benefits of studying near-misses vs. waiting for historical collision data.
https://www.570news.com/2020/02/11/tuesday-february-11th-2020-3/
January 13, 2020 – Brisk Synergies acquired by Canadian-based Transoft Solutions
Transoft Solutions Inc., (“Transoft”) a global leader in transportation engineering design and analysis software, today announced its acquisition of Brisk Synergies (“Brisk”) the leader in automated road safety analysis headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.
September 28, 2019 – Bellevue pioneering road safety analysis project
Brisk Synergies is working with the City of Bellevue to help Bellevu achieve Vision Zero’s goal by 2030. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Brisk Synergies will analyze roadway activity in 40 locations and will be processing as many as 34,000 hours of footage representing 21 terabytes of data.
Project of this type used to be very expensive, results tine-consuming and labor-intensive, with Brisk Synergies technology, near-miss analyses speed up the process of date-collection.
https://www.bellevuereporter.com/news/bellevue-pioneering-road-safety-analysis-project/
August, 2019- cONnected with Brisk Synergies presented by AVIN
Charles Chung sits down with Raed Kadri, Director, Automotive Technology and Mobility Innovation at Ontario Centres of Excellence, to talk about using computer vision and AI help cities better understand traffic flow and predict future collision rates.
June 6th, 2019- Dr. Luis Miranda-Moreo presents at the MOVIN’ON Summit 2019 in Montreal:
When #RoadSafety Reigns Supreme: New Technologies, Strategies & Tools for a Proactive & Preventive Approach. A discussion on how new mobility solutions can assist cities in approving road safety for all types of road users in differing urban environments. Presented with International Road Federation (IRF).
Click here for the full article.
May 8th, 2019- Brisk Synergies Receives Major Grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)
Brisk Synergies has received a green technologies grant from SDTC for further enhancement to our safety analytics platform to assist city planners to improve traffic flow and reduce traffic congestion which leads to a reduction in emissions and also to increase sustainable mobility adoption with safer roads for pedestrians and cyclists.
Click here for the full article.
May 1, 2019 – Brisk Synergies to Present at the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP)
We are excited to be participating at the upcoming 2019 Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) in Calgary. Dr. Paul St. Aubin, Head of Products, will deliver two presentations on;
Midtown Atlanta Case Study- New Data Collection Techniques in Automated Pedestrian Safety Analysis on May 28th (Session 5A: 2 pm – 3: 40 pm).
Automated Proactive Road Safety Analysis – Towards Vision Zero in Toronto on May 29th (Session 6A: 9 am – 10:40 am).
April 6th, 2019 – Brisk Synergies Head of Research, Dr. Sohail Zangenehpour Presents at the CITE/TAC Luncheon, 2019.
Dr. Sohail Zangenehpour presented at the CITE/TAC luncheon in Ottawa about how turnkey based solutions for automated road safety can assess road user behaviour to detect collision risks between pedestrians, cyclists and motor vehicles before they occur.
Specifically, Dr. Zangenehpour discussed newer data analysis technologies that are evolving which blend computer vision and surrogate safety analyses to perform cross-sectional or before-after studies on temporary traffic cameras and continuous real-time video conflict analysis on permanent traffic cameras. The presentation provided participants with an overview of the challenges faced by cities and engineering firms when using traditional collision studies to evaluate the safety of road users.
March 10, 2019 – Brisk Synergies selected by United Nations Global Impact to be among the most innovative urban solutions.
January 10, 2019 – City of Bellevue deployment for network-wide traffic safety monitoring
November 15, 2018 – Brisk Synergies and Aecom webinar on Midtown Atlanta Before and After study at pedestrian all–walk phase
October 5, 2018 – Brisk Synergies to explore innovation with INFINITI LAB in Hong Kong.
September 13, 2018 – Brisk Synergies joins TSR’s Global Entrepreneur Program to accelerate road safety innovation
July 11, 2018 – Brisk Synergies to be fast-tracked for INFINITI Lab’s 12-week program in Hong Kong
June 1, 2018 – Brisk Synergies attends and presents paper at the ITS America Annual Conference in Detroit
Charles Chung, CEO of Brisk Synergies, presented a research paper titled “Practice-Ready Cloud-Based Platform Solution for Automated Surrogate Safety Diagnosis and before-after Studies: FOUR Case Studies” at the ITS America Annual Conference in Detroit on June 5th.
May 25, 2018 – Brisk Synergies participates in an innovation panel at the International Transport Forum
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Brisk Synergies Dr. Luis Miranda-Moreno discussed predicative vs. traditional (reactive) road safety approaches during the Transportation Innovation Talks panel session focused on innovation and transportation technological advances at the ITF Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany on May 24. The summit is the world’s largest gathering of transport ministers and global transport policy makers representing more than 80 countries. Click here to review his presentation.
April 23, 2018 – Brisk Synergies participates in the Transformative Technology Zone at OCE Discovery
March 22, 2018 – Brisk Synergies to Present on “Understanding Collisions before Collisions Happen” at Smart Cities Connect Innovation Showcase
March 2, 2018 – Brisk Synergies participates in Panel Presentation on “Vision Zero: Driving with Data” at Vision Zero Advocate Conference in Toronto
The panel of leading experts dove into the elements of safety data collection, intervention prioritization and evaluation. These elements are important to developing an effective Vision Zero program that is rooted in strong and reliable data. Panel members included the City of Toronto, York University, Toronto Public Health and Brisk Synergies.
January 30, 2018 – Brisk Synergies Webinar on Proactive Near Misses Analysis
January 23, 2018 – Brisk Synergies Teams up with Team Citi.moov to win the Miami-based Fastrack Institute transportation mobility competition
January 12, 2018 – Brisk Synergies Presentation on “Smarter Analysis for Safer Roads ” at World Bank Headquarter in DC
Dec 7, 2017 – govCIO Outlook recognizes Brisk Synergies as a top 10 Intelligent Transportation Solution Provider for 2017
November 20, 2017 – Ontario Good Roads Association, Fall Issue: Surrogate Safety Analysis Techniques can Prevent Road Death and Injury
September, 2017 – (Publication) Stopping Tragedy in its Tracks: How Innovative Surrogate Safety Analysis Techniques can Prevent Road Death and Injury
September, 2017 – Brisk Synergies is proud to participate in The Transurban Smart Highways Challenge
July, 2017 – Brisk Synergies pitches at Founder Fuel Demo Day 2017
January, 2017 – City of Montreal to use BriskVANTAGE platform
Brisk Synergies is very proud to announce that the company has entered into an agreement with the City of Montreal for the city to become the first municipality to deploy the recently announced BriskVANTAGE platform for continuous analysis of specific traffic flow and vehicle, pedestrian and bicyclist safety at particular intersections of interest to the city.
Brisk Synergies’ engineers will work closely with the city’s Urban Mobility Management Centre to determine the specific “scenarios” that will be monitored with the platform. Utilizing the city’s existing traffic camera infrastructure, the team will choose an initial handful of scenarios to monitor and create the initial set of configuration and definition files necessary to instruct the platform’s analysis of the continuous video streams. Initially the project will execute the analysis on a nightly basis providing the city’s mobility management centre with a dashboard of summary data, heatmaps & video snippets for the previous day’s activity against the defined scenarios, allowing the traffic management centre to track the activity over time and see trends and patterns in the activity and make more informed decisions to improve traffic flow and safety with measurable results.
The BriskVANTAGE Continuous Monitoring Platform can analyze and aggregate data for a number of different scenarios from a given video recording, including traffic counting, speed monitoring, red-light violations, right-of-way violations, near-collision detections, jaywalking patterns, potentially dangerous vehicle / pedestrian or vehicle / bicycle interactions. See https://safety.transoftsolutions.com/briskvantage-platform/ for more details.
December, 2016 – Using smart data to help drive bicycle policies
September, 2016 – Toronto Big Data Innovation Unit uses Big Data from Toronto Analytics Platform
July, 2016 – As part of our European market initiative, Brisk Synergies visited the Automotive Campus in Helmond, Netherlands.
June, 2016 – Brisk Synergies provides expert insights and shares experiences in Big Transportation Data for North American cities
November, 2015 – From Toronto to Glasgow, cities have been partnering with tech businesses to harness cyclist data to inform and improve cycling infrastructure: The Guardian
The Toronto Cycling App, a tool launched in May 2014, developed by tech company Brisk Synergies for the city of Toronto, to inform development of the cycling network. As the city’s manager of cycling infrastructure and programmes, Jacquelyn Hayward Gulati played an integral part.. [Read more]
October, 2015 – Brisk Synergies, Ecopia Technologies & Miovision partner to create real-time traffic visualization of cities
Kitchener-based traffic system technology platform developer Miovision has partnered with two Waterloo start-ups, Brisk Synergies and Ecopia Technologies, who’ve got roots in Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre, from which Miovision is also a graduate, with the objective of helping cities to create real-time visualizations of their transportation networks. [Read more]
September, 2015 – City of Québec Launches New App to Discover Cyclist Needs
Powered by Brisk Synergies, the new app, Mon Trajet Velo, will plot routes taken by cyclists during their everyday travels. An online consultation will draw a portrait of the types of cyclists from Quebec City and determine their development needs to travel safely on the roads. [Read more]
March, 2015 – Brisk Synergies Selected for Inaugural AC Jumpstart Cohort
The Accelerator Centre® (AC) is proud to announce its first AC JumpStart cohort, the first group of companies to benefit from the $8M funding program, announced January 15th in conjunction with the Federal Economic Development Agency (FedDev Ontario), and partners Conestoga College, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. [Read More]
July 21, 2020 – Accelerator Centre announces graduation of Brisk Synergies from The Accelerator Program®
The Accelerator Centre (AC) today announced its newest graduate of The Accelerator Program®, Brisk Synergies (now Transoft Solutions). The Accelerator Program is dedicated to building and scaling sustainable, globally competitive companies and giving startups the highest probability of long-term success through its curriculum-based programming and continuous one-to-one mentorship from proven industry experts.
We are so thankful to the amazing group of mentors and staff at the Accelerator Centre who have helped Brisk Synergies grow over the last 2+ years.
Read the entire Accelerator Centre’s press release here .
July 16, 2020 – Transoft Solutions Making News with the Recent Vision Zero Partnership
The premier study involving the partnership of Transoft Solutions, the City of Bellevue, Washington and the Together for Safer Roads group is making the rounds on various media outlets. The innovative project supporting Vision Zero initiatives, analyzed over 5,000 hours of citywide traffic camera video footage. The study lead to some very eye-opening findings that could have considerable implications on the way a city can prevent major traffic accidents before they happen.
See what others are saying about this important study. Read GeekWire’s article here and Streetsblog’s report here.
July 13, 2020 – Ground-breaking Study Demonstrates Traffic-cam Monitoring is Effective Way to improve Road Safety
Transoft Solutions, City of Bellevue, Together for Safer Roads collaborate on Vision Zero project
Transoft Solutions Inc., developers of transportation engineering software and road safety analytic technology, the City of Bellevue, Washington and the Together for Safer Roads coalition have partnered on a first-of-its kind, citywide analysis of traffic camera video with the goal of improving safety for all road users. The results of this project have been published in three technical reports, plus an executive summary, that are now available to the public.
Read the full press release here: https://www.transoftsolutions.com/ground-breaking-study-demonstrates-traffic-cam-monitoring-is-effective-way-to-improve-road-safety/
April 27, 2020 – Urban Mobility and Safety in a COVID-19 World: Adapting to the New Normal
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, streets, transportation systems, and public spaces will need to adapt to the new reality both during the pandemic and in the recovery stages. Transoft Solutions is here to help city planners and engineers better manage the upcoming months and the year ahead, by providing data about the new state of your streets and public spaces, helping you adapt accordingly. Find out more here.
April 1, 2020-Brisk Synergies Changes Name to Transoft Solutions (ITS) Inc.
We are pleased to announce that we are changing our company name from Brisk Synergies to Transoft Solutions (ITS) Inc., effective immediately. The name change is a result of Transoft Solutions’ acquisition of Brisk Synergies which took place in January 2020. This new direction reflects both the evolution of the company as well as its vision for the future ─ to provide clients with intelligent transportation solutions for safe and sustainable transportation networks.
Now, as a combined company, we back our dedication to client success with an even stronger set of credentials – seasoned leadership, deep transportation expertise, innovative vision analytic technology and intelligent transportation software.
Over the course of nearly three decades, Transoft Solutions has developed a variety of innovative software products for the transportation engineering community. We thrive on making a difference for our clients by focusing our energy and passion on delivering the insights and outcomes that matter most to transportation professionals.
We will continue to provide excellent service to our customers, vendors, and partners with our new business identity. You will start seeing Transoft Solutions (ITS) Inc. new brand introduced in marketing collateral, website, and on all business correspondence.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions, please contact us at info.its@transoftsolutions.com
February 11, 2020-Brisk Synergies is live to air on Tech Spotlight
570 News produces a live to air weekly interview segment on technology news in the Waterloo Region. Listen to last week’s segment with Brisk Synergies’ Channel Partner Manger, Terezinha Hignett. Host, Brian Bourke and Terezinha discuss the importance of new ways to improve pedestrian safety and the benefits of studying near-misses vs. waiting for historical collision data.
https://www.570news.com/2020/02/11/tuesday-february-11th-2020-3/
January 13, 2020-Brisk Synergies acquired by Canadian-based Transoft Solutions
Transoft Solutions Inc., (“Transoft”) a global leader in transportation engineering design and analysis software, today announced its acquisition of Brisk Synergies (“Brisk”) the leader in automated road safety analysis headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.
September 28, 2019-Bellevue pioneering road safety analysis project
Brisk Synergies is working with the City of Bellevue to help Bellevu achieve Vision Zero’s goal by 2030. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Brisk Synergies will analyze roadway activity in 40 locations and will be processing as many as 34,000 hours of footage representing 21 terabytes of data.
Project of this type used to be very expensive, results tine-consuming and labor-intensive, with Brisk Synergies technology, near-miss analyses speed up the process of date-collection.
https://www.bellevuereporter.com/news/bellevue-pioneering-road-safety-analysis-project/
August, 2019- cONnected with Brisk Synergies presented by AVIN
Charles Chung sits down with Raed Kadri, Director, Automotive Technology and Mobility Innovation at Ontario Centres of Excellence, to talk about using computer vision and AI help cities better understand traffic flow and predict future collision rates.
June 6th, 2019- Dr. Luis Miranda-Moreo presents at the MOVIN’ON Summit 2019 in Montreal:
When #RoadSafety Reigns Supreme: New Technologies, Strategies & Tools for a Proactive & Preventive Approach. A discussion on how new mobility solutions can assist cities in approving road safety for all types of road users in differing urban environments. Presented with International Road Federation (IRF).
Click here for the full article.
May 8th, 2019- Brisk Synergies Receives Major Grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)
Brisk Synergies has received a green technologies grant from SDTC for further enhancement to our safety analytics platform to assist city planners to improve traffic flow and reduce traffic congestion which leads to a reduction in emissions and also to increase sustainable mobility adoption with safer roads for pedestrians and cyclists.
Click here for the full article.
May 1, 2019 – Brisk Synergies to Present at the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP)
We are excited to be participating at the upcoming 2019 Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) in Calgary. Dr. Paul St. Aubin, Head of Products, will deliver two presentations on;
Midtown Atlanta Case Study- New Data Collection Techniques in Automated Pedestrian Safety Analysis on May 28th (Session 5A: 2 pm – 3: 40 pm).
Automated Proactive Road Safety Analysis – Towards Vision Zero in Toronto on May 29th (Session 6A: 9 am – 10:40 am).
April 6th, 2019 – Brisk Synergies Head of Research, Dr. Sohail Zangenehpour Presents at the CITE/TAC Luncheon, 2019.
Dr. Sohail Zangenehpour presented at the CITE/TAC luncheon in Ottawa about how turnkey based solutions for automated road safety can assess road user behaviour to detect collision risks between pedestrians, cyclists and motor vehicles before they occur.
Specifically, Dr. Zangenehpour discussed newer data analysis technologies that are evolving which blend computer vision and surrogate safety analyses to perform cross-sectional or before-after studies on temporary traffic cameras and continuous real-time video conflict analysis on permanent traffic cameras. The presentation provided participants with an overview of the challenges faced by cities and engineering firms when using traditional collision studies to evaluate the safety of road users.
March 10, 2019 – Brisk Synergies selected by United Nations Global Impact to be among the most innovative urban solutions.
January 10, 2019 – City of Bellevue deployment for network-wide traffic safety monitoring
November 15, 2018 – Brisk Synergies and Aecom webinar on Midtown Atlanta Before and After study at pedestrian all–walk phase
October 5, 2018 – Brisk Synergies to explore innovation with INFINITI LAB in Hong Kong.
September 13, 2018 – Brisk Synergies joins TSR’s Global Entrepreneur Program to accelerate road safety innovation
July 11, 2018 – Brisk Synergies to be fast-tracked for INFINITI Lab’s 12-week program in Hong Kong
June 1, 2018 – Brisk Synergies attends and presents paper at the ITS America Annual Conference in Detroit
Charles Chung, CEO of Brisk Synergies, presented a research paper titled “Practice-Ready Cloud-Based Platform Solution for Automated Surrogate Safety Diagnosis and before-after Studies: FOUR Case Studies” at the ITS America Annual Conference in Detroit on June 5th.
May 25, 2018 – Brisk Synergies participates in an innovation panel at the International Transport Forum
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Brisk Synergies Dr. Luis Miranda-Moreno discussed predicative vs. traditional (reactive) road safety approaches during the Transportation Innovation Talks panel session focused on innovation and transportation technological advances at the ITF Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany on May 24. The summit is the world’s largest gathering of transport ministers and global transport policy makers representing more than 80 countries. Click here to review his presentation.
April 23, 2018 – Brisk Synergies participates in the Transformative Technology Zone at OCE Discovery
March 22, 2018 – Brisk Synergies to Present on “Understanding Collisions before Collisions Happen” at Smart Cities Connect Innovation Showcase
March 2, 2018 – Brisk Synergies participates in Panel Presentation on “Vision Zero: Driving with Data” at Vision Zero Advocate Conference in Toronto
The panel of leading experts dove into the elements of safety data collection, intervention prioritization and evaluation. These elements are important to developing an effective Vision Zero program that is rooted in strong and reliable data. Panel members included the City of Toronto, York University, Toronto Public Health and Brisk Synergies.
January 30, 2018 – Brisk Synergies Webinar on Proactive Near Misses Analysis
January 23, 2018 – Brisk Synergies Teams up with Team Citi.moov to win the Miami-based Fastrack Institute transportation mobility competition
January 12, 2018 – Brisk Synergies Presentation on “Smarter Analysis for Safer Roads ” at World Bank Headquarter in DC
Dec 7, 2017 – govCIO Outlook recognizes Brisk Synergies as a top 10 Intelligent Transportation Solution Provider for 2017
November 20, 2017 – Ontario Good Roads Association, Fall Issue: Surrogate Safety Analysis Techniques can Prevent Road Death and Injury
September, 2017 – (Publication) Stopping Tragedy in its Tracks: How Innovative Surrogate Safety Analysis Techniques can Prevent Road Death and Injury
September, 2017 – Brisk Synergies is proud to participate in The Transurban Smart Highways Challenge
July, 2017 – Brisk Synergies pitches at Founder Fuel Demo Day 2017
January, 2017 – City of Montreal to use BriskVANTAGE platform
Brisk Synergies is very proud to announce that the company has entered into an agreement with the City of Montreal for the city to become the first municipality to deploy the recently announced BriskVANTAGE platform for continuous analysis of specific traffic flow and vehicle, pedestrian and bicyclist safety at particular intersections of interest to the city.
Brisk Synergies’ engineers will work closely with the city’s Urban Mobility Management Centre to determine the specific “scenarios” that will be monitored with the platform. Utilizing the city’s existing traffic camera infrastructure, the team will choose an initial handful of scenarios to monitor and create the initial set of configuration and definition files necessary to instruct the platform’s analysis of the continuous video streams. Initially the project will execute the analysis on a nightly basis providing the city’s mobility management centre with a dashboard of summary data, heatmaps & video snippets for the previous day’s activity against the defined scenarios, allowing the traffic management centre to track the activity over time and see trends and patterns in the activity and make more informed decisions to improve traffic flow and safety with measurable results.
The BriskVANTAGE Continuous Monitoring Platform can analyze and aggregate data for a number of different scenarios from a given video recording, including traffic counting, speed monitoring, red-light violations, right-of-way violations, near-collision detections, jaywalking patterns, potentially dangerous vehicle / pedestrian or vehicle / bicycle interactions. See https://safety.transoftsolutions.com/briskvantage-platform/ for more details.
December, 2016 – Using smart data to help drive bicycle policies
September, 2016 – Toronto Big Data Innovation Unit uses Big Data from Toronto Analytics Platform
July, 2016 – As part of our European market initiative, Brisk Synergies visited the Automotive Campus in Helmond, Netherlands.
June, 2016 – Brisk Synergies provides expert insights and shares experiences in Big Transportation Data for North American cities
November, 2015 – From Toronto to Glasgow, cities have been partnering with tech businesses to harness cyclist data to inform and improve cycling infrastructure: The Guardian
The Toronto Cycling App, a tool launched in May 2014, developed by tech company Brisk Synergies for the city of Toronto, to inform development of the cycling network. As the city’s manager of cycling infrastructure and programmes, Jacquelyn Hayward Gulati played an integral part.. [Read more]
October, 2015 – Brisk Synergies, Ecopia Technologies & Miovision partner to create real-time traffic visualization of cities
Kitchener-based traffic system technology platform developer Miovision has partnered with two Waterloo start-ups, Brisk Synergies and Ecopia Technologies, who’ve got roots in Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre, from which Miovision is also a graduate, with the objective of helping cities to create real-time visualizations of their transportation networks. [Read more]
September, 2015 – City of Québec Launches New App to Discover Cyclist Needs
Powered by Brisk Synergies, the new app, Mon Trajet Velo, will plot routes taken by cyclists during their everyday travels. An online consultation will draw a portrait of the types of cyclists from Quebec City and determine their development needs to travel safely on the roads. [Read more]
March, 2015 – Brisk Synergies Selected for Inaugural AC Jumpstart Cohort
The Accelerator Centre® (AC) is proud to announce its first AC JumpStart cohort, the first group of companies to benefit from the $8M funding program, announced January 15th in conjunction with the Federal Economic Development Agency (FedDev Ontario), and partners Conestoga College, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. [Read More]
Events
Improving Cycling in Urban Areas: BriskCYCLE webinar 2015.
Improving Cycling in Urban Areas
In today’s bustling cities, congestion and mobility are critical concerns for city planners. Join us as we discuss cycling from a variety perspectives, analyzing various problems and solutions that consider the importance of improving cycling in urban areas.
This exciting webinar will gather together cycling experts from across diverse countries and backgrounds including: members of urban cyclist associations, mobility planners from governmental departments, public cycling system managers and academic experts in charge of analysis of cycling policies and development.
Webinar recorded on October 16th, 2015
Irene Fernández | ACU Buenos Aires
Juan Carlos Montenegro | IDU Bogotá
Roberto Guzmán | Chepecletas Costa Rica
Luis Miranda | McGill University
Rafael Alfaro | Moderator
Mario Perdomo | Brisk Synergies