St.Aubyn Street and Southampton Street are major iWay walking and cycling corridors as well as key motoring routes ac
Projects
Design & safety
Traffic Engineering, Safety audits & reviews, Design & safety
Traffic Engineering, Safety audits & reviews, Design & safety
ViaStrada prepared a NZTA-compliant post construction road safety audit, including day and night time site visi
Traffic Engineering, Concept & scheme design, Walking & cycling facilities
The Latham Street – Sale Street corridor is an arterial road connecting Riverbend Road and Marine Parade over a dista
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Training and Research, Safety audits & reviews, Walking & cycling facilities
The Christchurch City Council receives occasional comments about tram tracks causing problems for people on bikes.
Traffic Engineering, Concept & scheme design, Research, Walking & cycling facilities, Design & safety, Research & trials
ViaStrada was commissioned by the NZTA to identify up to five intersections with the highest recorded crashes, invest
Traffic Engineering, Safety audits & reviews, Design & safety
ViaStrada was commissioned to conduct safety audits of the uni-directional separated cycleway pair on the one-way sys
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Walking & cycling facilities, Design & safety
The ViaStrada team conducted field reviews and desktop project identification.
Planning, Concept & scheme design, Speed management, Design & safety, Planning & policy
Project work included design advice for the Napier to Hastings intercity cycleway (February 2017).
Traffic Engineering, Concept & scheme design, Intersections, Walking & cycling facilities
Marlborough Roads engaged ViaStrada to develop an improved roundabout design for the Alabama Road and Weld Street int
Traffic Engineering, Concept & scheme design, Intersections, Safety audits & reviews
PNCC engaged ViaStrada to undertake scheme and detail design stage road safety audits of a number of roundabout upgra
Planning & policy
Planning, Speed management, Planning & policy
Auckland Transport commissioned ViaStrada to conduct an independent review of the Mission Bay & St Heliers speed
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Speed management
ViaStrada was commissioned by Tauranga CC to assess the effectiveness of the 30 km/h zone in Mount Maunganui, in
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Speed management, Planning & policy
ViaStrada was commissioned by Environment Canterbury (ECan), on behalf of the Regional Road Safety Working Group (RRS
Planning, Planning & policy
Most of the time, we have a client who pays the bills.
Traffic Engineering, Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, School & workplace travel, Planning & policy
Dunedin City Council commissioned ViaStrada to develop an area-wide approach to addressing road safety issues around
Planning, Concept & scheme design, Speed management, Design & safety, Planning & policy
Project work included design advice for the Napier to Hastings intercity cycleway (February 2017).
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Legislation, regulations, evidence, Planning & policy
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, School & workplace travel, Planning & policy
The Palmerston North City Council has implemented Bikes in Schools
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, School & workplace travel, Planning & policy
ViaStrada's John Lieswyn led the development of travel plans for nine primary and
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Business cases, Research, Strategies & masterplans
Transport for New South Wales commissioned ViaStrada to create a benefit cost analysis tool that assesses measures th
Training & guidelines
Traffic Engineering Standards, Research, Cycle planning & design, Urban street design, Training & guidelines, Research & trials
Since 1998, the Christchurch practice has been to apply red coloured surfacing in selected sections of cycle facilities to heighten the awareness of motorists and cyclists regarding the presence of these facilities, particularly at conflict points. However, apart from Waimakariri District, the rest of New Zealand uses green coloured surfacing for cycle facilities, as well as for bus lanes.
Traffic Engineering Standards, Cycle planning & design, Urban street design
NZTA commissioned ViaStrada to update more MOTSAM (Manual of Traffic Signs and Markings) material. Gone are all the old double limit lines, for example. Some of the more noteworthy amendments are:
Traffic Engineering, Presentations & lectures
The University of Canterbury introduced a new course in 2008 - Transport Design Project. Industry mentors assisted groups of four students during the course of the project. Jeanette Ward and Axel Wilke mentored one of the groups.
Training and Research, Cycle planning & design, Pedestrian planning & design, Strategies & masterplans
Walking and cycling strategies are useful tools that aid councils in providing for pedestrians and cyclists. In 2005, earlier research found that 36 strategies were held by 30 different councils throughout New Zealand. A stocktake of all current walking and cycling strategies was undertaken. This revealed that there are now 61 strategies prepared by 55 different councils (out of 85).
Traffic Engineering Standards, Pedestrian planning & design
Megan Fowler's first project at ViaStrada was to assist Tim Hughes of Land Transport New Zealand (now the New Zealand Transport Agency) in completing the Pedestrian Planning and Design Guide.
Traffic Engineering Standards, Cycle planning & design
Transit NZ (now NZTA) commissioned ViaStrada to update the cycling-related road marking content of the Manual of Traffic Signs and Markings (MOTSAM). In a parallel process, we were also assisting in a revision of the NZ Supplement to Austroads Part 14 Bicycles, the NZ cycling design manual (the revisions have now been published). We think the industry has been eagerly awaiting the outcome of these processes.
Training and Research, Presentations & lectures, Training & guidelines
ARRB Group (Melbourne) ran two-day workshops on "planning and developing walking and cycling strategies" in Australia and NZ. Andrew Macbeth teamed up with ARRB to develop content and deliver (with an ARRB co-presenter) the NZ workshops in Wellington and Christchurch.
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Research, Cycle planning & design
ViaStrada was engaged by ARTA to develop a tool to convert short-term manual cycle counts to "annual average daily traffic" (AADT) estimates of cycle traffic. The methodology used standard pneumatic traffic counters with softer than normal rubber road tubes for detecting cycles.
Cycle traffic was counted at five sites around Auckland, with counts undertaken continuously for up to two weeks. In addition, manual counts commissioned by ARTA and undertaken by Gravitas during March 2007 were used to verify the reliability of the automatic counts and to help develop the tool.
Training and Research, SIDRA modelling
ViaStrada staff are the only authorised agents for delivering SIDRA INTERSECTION training courses in NZ. The courses run by the software developer Akcelik and Associates receive a very high rating. ViaStrada is proud to have so far received the same positive results.
Training and Research, Cycle planning & design
ViaStrada presents cycling planning and design courses at both fundamental and advanced levels. Over 700 people have attended these courses to date. This page contains background information on the Fundamentals course and its PowerPoint presentations can be downloaded from near the bottom of the page.
Research & trials
Traffic Engineering, Training and Research, Concept & scheme design, Research, Traffic control device (TCD) trials
Between 2001 and 2005, 689 red light crashes were recorded in Auckland.
Traffic Engineering, Training and Research, Research, Development traffic engineering
As part of the Integrated Transport Plan to support the Kaiapoi Town Centre Plan, ViaStrada has developed intersectio
Traffic Engineering, Concept & scheme design, Research, Development traffic engineering, Walking & cycling facilities
In 2009, Gehl Architects prepared a study entitled Public Space Public Life (2010) that considered how people use pub
Planning, Research, Strategies & masterplans
ViaStrada conducted an analysis of reported vehicle/pedestrian and vehicle/bicyclist crash data for the five years pr
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Research, Walking & cycling facilities, Strategies & masterplans
IMPORTANT NOTE
The project summary which follows describes a recommended cycle network which will likely require amendment post the Christchurch earthquakes, and will also need to be approved as part of the larger Christchurch Transport Plan. It does not represent adopted council policy.
Overview and Background
Stage 1 (completed in 2009) involved mapping the existing cycle lane and shared path networks. The deliverable from stage 1 was a GIS map of the data collected.
Traffic Engineering Standards, Research, Cycle planning & design, Urban street design, Training & guidelines, Research & trials
Since 1998, the Christchurch practice has been to apply red coloured surfacing in selected sections of cycle facilities to heighten the awareness of motorists and cyclists regarding the presence of these facilities, particularly at conflict points. However, apart from Waimakariri District, the rest of New Zealand uses green coloured surfacing for cycle facilities, as well as for bus lanes.
Traffic Engineering, Traffic control device (TCD) trials, Research & trials
Lorraine and Jon have been out and about on Banks Peninsula recording the road markings, one way bridge priorities and other traffic control devices.
When Banks Peninsula District Council was amalgamated with Christchurch City Council, it was difficult to reconcile some of the traffic resolutions with the markings and traffic controls on the road, and other records were difficult to find.
Traffic Engineering, Research, Research & trials
Megan Fowler and Andrew Macbeth undertook and analysed counts of cycle traffic on the two existing sections of the Christchurch to Little River Rail Trail - between Prebbleton (on the south-western edge of Christchurch) and Lincoln and between Motukarara and Little River (on Banks Peninsula, half way to Akaroa).
Policy and Strategy Development and Analysis, Research, Walking & cycling facilities
Auckland City Council (ACC) engaged ViaStrada to undertake a comprehensive cycling review for the "Learning Quarter", the campus area of the University of Auckland and the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), in the Auckland CBD.
Traffic Engineering Standards, Training and Research, Research, Walking & cycling facilities
ViaStrada has undertaken significant research and tool development on behalf of VicRoads (Victoria, Australia) to determine appropriate shared use path widths based on user volume characteristics.