Projects

New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi commissioned ViaStrada to study how well horizontal and vertical design features manage path user speed, …

How can monitoring the number, gender, and road position of people entering Wellington’s central city by bike or scooter help shape the future of …

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, …

ViaStrada and Abley Transportation Consultants were commissioned by the NZ Transport Agency to develop a national framework of guidance for planning …

Did you know that to date (June 2024), since 2003 over 1500 people have attended fundamental and advanced courses in Planning and Design for Cycling? …

ViaStrada completed a safety, accessibility and condition audit of over 800 bus stops for Otago Regional Council and Dunedin City Council over March …

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 …

New two-day Urban Street Design workshops, developed in collaboration with NZ Transport Agency, share best practice and guidance on multi-modal urban …

The Far North District Council commissioned ViaStrada and Abley to develop a geo-spatial approach to determining the annual investment required to …

Using multiple sets of data to create a large GIS database we determined the highest-risk arterial corridor intersections and identified which of …

ViaStrada revised New Plymouth's active transport cordon count methodology, and analysed the 2023 data.

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 …

ViaStrada staff augmented their extensive experience using and designing cycle parking with a literature review of European guidance, the Australian …

Since 2006, Axel Downard-Wilke has been a guest lecturer at the University of Canterbury for the Masters of Transportation course and occasional …

The NZ Transport Agency commissioned ViaStrada to formally trial two "Barnes Dance" shared pedestrian/cycle crossings along SH1 in Dunedin, including …

ViaStrada staff have direct experience with managing bus stop infrastructure for Christchurch and Palmerston North city councils. This informed our …

The Department of Conservation (DOC) commissioned ViaStrada to create a web map application about transport-related content in Mackenzie District, …

ViaStrada has developed (and subsequently updated) a comprehensive design guide for trail designers and project developers. The updated design guide …

In his previous role at Palmerston North City in 2009, John Lieswyn developed guidelines for the design and location of bus stops around the city's …

A formal Traffic Control Device trial of directional cycle signals has been approved for four locations; two in Christchurch and two in Auckland. …

KiwiRail and the New Zealand Transport Agency have led the development of a New Zealand design guide for pedestrian and cycle facilities at rail …