Bio
Louis-Paul has over 40 years of professional experience in transportation planning and policy analysis. He holds an M.A. in Geography with a specialization in transportation from York University (Toronto) and a B.A. from Laval University (Quebec City) also in Geography. He did his Ph. D studies at Ottawa University (ABD).
He served as Director, Multimodal Transportation Performance & Capacity Analysis at Transport Canada from 2007 to 2021 where he was responsible for the development and maintenance of indicators providing a measurement of the performance and capacity utilization of the transportation sector in Canada. It was during that time that he developed the concept of measuring supply chains using a fluidity indicator, taking into account all modes of transport from an end-to-end perspective. He also worked on the development of multi modal transportation modelling for the resilience of long supply chains.
Louis-Paul served on the US National Academy of Sciences committees for Transport Fluidity. He also served on an ITF/OECD Task Force on supply chain resilience. Mr. Tardif is also a regular contributor to the World Bank as part of the deployment of their Logistics Performance Indicators. Over the years, he also contributed to three expert groups with the OECD and he served as Chair of the Training Group with the International Road Transport Union.
Prior to joining Transport Canada in 2007, Louis-Paul was Principal of his own consulting firm where he provided technical services to private and public sector clients for 13 years. Some of these services included real-time traffic information through a phone portal and the design of fuel efficiency and safety incentives programs for trucking firms. He also assisted on programs designed to reduce the risk of collisions at rail crossings.
Louis-Paul also worked for 12 years with the Canadian Trucking Alliance, (1982-94) occupying a number of positions, including Director General of the Association. He led for the Association the implementation of a new set of regulatory requirements for the transportation of dangerous goods with the road transport sector. The training program that was developed then became an industry standard. Louis-Paul also served as the first Executive Director of the Trucking Research Institute. A position he occupied from 1992 to 1994.
Early in his career, Mr. Tardif worked with the Quebec Ministry of Transport, the Canadian Transport Agency and CN Rail.