Projects

The University of Canterbury introduced a new 4th-year course in 2008 - Transport Design Project. Industry mentors assisted groups of four students …

Walking and cycling strategies are useful tools that aid councils in providing for pedestrians and cyclists. In 2005, earlier research found that 36 …

Megan's first project at ViaStrada was to assist Tim Hughes of Land Transport New Zealand (now NZTA) in completing the Pedestrian Planning and Design …

Transit NZ commissioned ViaStrada to update the cycling-related road marking content of the Manual of Traffic Signs and Markings (MOTSAM). In a …

Should cyclists be allowed to ride across zebra crossings? When you've got a tricky question like this, who do you ask for sound and reasoned advice? …

ARRB Group (Melbourne) ran two-day workshops on "planning and developing walking and cycling strategies" in Australia and NZ. Andrew Macbeth teamed up …

A discussion paper on a proposed national road classification system (NRCS) or road hierarchy was prepared in mid July 2003 by Andrew Macbeth (at that …

ViaStrada was engaged by ARTA to develop a tool to convert short-term manual cycle counts to "annual average daily traffic" estimates of cycle traffic …

ViaStrada staff are the only authorised agents for delivering SIDRA INTERSECTION training courses in NZ. The courses run by the software developer …

ViaStrada presents cycling planning and design courses at both fundamental and advanced levels. As of 2009, over 700 people have attended these …

Within the 4 Avenues (Central City) of Christchurch there are a considerable number of loading zones and short term parking restrictions. The City …

Christchurch City Council has an extensive Construction Standards Specification document. ViaStrada staff were engaged to lead a team of Council …

Environment Canterbury (ECan) is developing a regional cycle network plan. ViaStrada staff developed an audit methodology, enabling alternative …

This project filled a big hole in New Zealand at the time. Austroads guidance was not always appropriate for New Zealand, and we have different road …

The project was to provide real intersection and midblock layouts that practitioners could use to design and implement vision impaired ‘user friendly' …