The 2005 Annual Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) was held in Calgary, Alberta, from September 18 to 21 under the theme Transportation – Investing in Our Future. The TAC conference is the largest annual transportation-related gathering of its kind in Canada.

TAC has published its conference proceedings in CD-ROM format only. They include all available papers from the conference's technical sessions. Although not required to do so, panel discussion and workshop participants were also given the opportunity to submit full papers for publication in the conference proceedings.

The contents of the papers contained herein reflect the views of the authors and should not be attributed as the official views or policies of TAC. No guarantee, expressed or implied, is given as to the accuracy of the contents, including extracts from referenced publications, nor shall distribution constitute responsibility on the part of TAC for errors, omissions or any form of misrepresentation resulting from use of the contents.