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Mode shift impacts on safety
ViaStrada was commissioned by NZTA to undertake research on the overall safety impacts of mode shift away from private motorised vehicles to whole
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Dunedin Monitoring Framework Stocktake - Stage 1
The client has many different sources of transport information and called upon ViaStrada to help collate these, map them against the Land Transport
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Micromobility speed, gender and device type surveys
How fast do e-bike and e-scooter riders go? Is e-mobility helping to address the gender imbalance? Following on from surveys of cycleway user speed,
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Otago Regional Council Bus Stop Audits
ViaStrada completed a safety, accessibility and condition audit of over 800 bus stops for Otago Regional Council and Dunedin City Council over March
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Dunedin City Cordon Counts
How do people arrive in our central cities? Is it changing as we start to invest in walking, cycling and public transport? ViaStrada has run annual
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Far North District Council Urban Active Modes Plan
The Far North District Council commissioned ViaStrada and Abley to develop a geo-spatial approach to determining the annual investment required to
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Christchurch high risk corridor intersection prioritisation
Using multiple sets of data to create a large GIS database we determined the highest-risk arterial corridor intersections and identified which of
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New Plymouth Annual Cordon Count
ViaStrada revised New Plymouth's active transport cordon count methodology, and analysed the 2023 data.
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E-scooter court evidence
ViaStrada was commissioned by legal representatives of three e-scooter sharing companies to prepare an affidavit for the court on the safety and
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Safety of people travelling outside vehicles - deep dive review
Auckland Transport commissioned ViaStrada to carry out a wide-ranging investigation into the extent, nature and causes of serious harm to people
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Dunedin parking surveys
Dunedin City Council staff asked ViaStrada to set up and complete a survey of parking demand in the city centre. The aim was to provide a
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Costs of road transport "accidents"
ViaStrada delivered a working paper summarising the methodology and calculations to derive estimates of the Total (Social) Costs, Average Costs,
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Cycling Demand Model
ViaStrada and WSP developed a GIS and spreadsheet based cycling demand model with an accuracy that is an order of magnitude better than the existing
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Infrastructure for quick-build cycleways
Waka Kotahi commissioned ViaStrada to undertake research on quick-build (interim) cycleway infrastructure. This research note provides information
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Dunedin SH1 Barnes Dance Trials
The NZ Transport Agency commissioned ViaStrada to formally trial two "Barnes Dance" shared pedestrian/cycle crossings along SH1 in Dunedin, including
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Mackenzie District Visitor Transport Mapping
The Department of Conservation (DOC) commissioned ViaStrada to create a web map application about transport-related content in Mackenzie District,
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Directional cycle signals trial
A formal Traffic Control Device trial of directional cycle signals has been approved for four locations; two in Christchurch and two in Auckland.
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Cycle safety at Blenheim roundabouts
ViaStrada was commissioned by the NZTA to identify up to five intersections with the highest recorded crashes, investigate causal factors and propose
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Regulations and safety for electric bicycles and other low-powered vehicles
E-bikes and e-scooters (collectively, “micromobility”) are transforming our world. They are outselling electric cars – but our street design and
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Study of signalised intersections and protected bike lanes
In 2016, the IPENZ Transportation Group committee granted their annual study award to two members, Megan Fowler (ViaStrada) and Claire Graham
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NSW Fatigue-related rural road crashes & solutions
Transport for New South Wales commissioned ViaStrada to create a benefit-cost analysis tool that assesses measures that prevent fatigue-related road
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