Published and Notable Papers

Trenchard, H., Brett, C., Perc M. 2026. Trilobite tridents: A model of lift, drag and stability for queue formation (in production, Stratigraphy & Timescales: SATS Volume 11: AID 74, October 2026) VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H. 2022. Best Evidence, Best Decisions: An Evaluation of Inquisitorial and Adversarial Systems Among Administrative Tribunals in British Columbia. Major Research Paper, Master of Laws, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H. 2022. The Impact of Litigation on Public Policy. Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, Vol 16(2) June, pp. 445-469. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H., 2018. When Robots Get Bored and Invent Team Sports: A More Suitable Test than the Turing Test? Information, 9(5), p.118. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H., Renfree, A. and Peters, D.M., 2017. A computer model of drafting effects on collective behavior in elite 10,000-m runners. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 12(3), pp.345-350. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H., Brett, C.E. and Perc, M., 2017. Trilobite ‘pelotons’: possible hydrodynamic drag effects between leading and following trilobites in trilobite queues. Palaeontology, 60(4), pp.557-569. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H. and Perc, M., 2016. Equivalences in biological and economical systems: Peloton dynamics and the rebound effect. PloS one, 11(5), p.e0155395. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H. and Perc, M., 2016. Energy saving mechanisms, collective behavior and the variation range hypothesis in biological systems: a review. Biosystems, 147, pp.40-66. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H., 2015. The peloton superorganism and protocooperative behavior. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 270, pp.179-192. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H., Ratamero, E., Richardson, A. and Perc, M., 2015. A deceleration model for bicycle peloton dynamics and group sorting. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 251, pp.24-34. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H., Richardson, A., Ratamero, E. and Perc, M., 2014. Collective behavior and the identification of phases in bicycle pelotons. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 405, pp.92-103. VIEW PDF 

Trenchard H. 2013. American coot collective on-water dynamics. Nonlinear Dynamics Psychol Life Sci. Apr. 17(2):183-203. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H., 2011, November. Information Flow and the Distinction Between Self-Organized and Top-Down Dynamics in Bicycle Pelotons. In AAAI Fall Symposium: Complex Adaptive Systems. VIEW PDF

Trenchard, H., 2010, November. Hysteresis in Competitive Bicycle Pelotons. In AAAI Fall Symposium: Complex Adaptive Systems. VIEW PDF

Botting, G. and Trenchard, H., 1997. Witness Evidence Via Live Video Link in the Canadian Criminal Courtroom. Advocate, 55. VIEW PDF