This is a selection of some of the many publications & presentations that ViaStrada has been involved in over the years - click on the filter icon to refine the search by staff members.
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Cycling and Sustainability - Network Planning and Infrastructure Design
While previously at Canterbury University, Glen Koorey contributed a chapter to a book on cycling, focusing on planning and design approaches for
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An illustrated lexicon of cycle facilities
This technical note and poster proposes a glossary of cycling facility terms with the aim of reducing confusion amongst practitioners. It was
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Development of an automatic cycle counting programme for Hamilton City
Following on from the 2008 NZTA funded investigation by ViaStrada into methods of continuous cycle counting, this conference paper summarises the
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Wellington's Central City bus corridors: safe system approach
ViaStrada's Andrew Macbeth and John Lieswyn reviewed the Golden Mile corridor using the Safe Systems Approach, and controversially suggest a people
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Probabilistic Risk Analysis in Transport Project Economic Evaluation
John completed an MET Masters research project in 2011 looking into how risk and uncertainty are dealt with in the literature and guidelines around
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Assessment of the type of cycling infrastructure required to attract new cyclists
Working with fellow UC researchers, Glen Koorey (then at Canterbury University) investigated for NZTA what type of cycling infrastructure (i.e.
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Cycle counting programme in Hamilton
Following on from the 2008 NZTA funded investigation by ViaStrada into methods of continuous cycle counting, this conference paper summarises the
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Separated Bicycle Facilities in Christchurch
Surveys of Christchurch residents have shown that separated cycle facilities, (where cyclists are separated from motor vehicles) are the most likely
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What happens when petrol goes up or buses go down?
What happens when petrol prices go up, or buses go down? Following the 2008 petrol price rises and the 2009 Auckland bus driver industrial dispute,
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Incorporating Safety into Rural Highway Design
Between 2003-2009, Glen Koorey undertook PhD (doctoral) research to explore ways to assess the safety performance of (predominantly two-lane) rural
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Putting the “e” into advocate: online content management systems
Sparked by a desire to upgrade its existing email-list system, Spokes Canterbury has embarked on a project to develop a new online website and
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Effect of road bendiness on traffic crashes
This paper summarises the findings of a comprehensive study of the effects of road network bendiness on traffic crashes that used GIS (geographical
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The effects of the Pages Road cycle lane on cyclist safety and traffic flow operations
This paper discusses the effects the installation of an on-road cycle lane had on traffic flow operations and the safety of its users. Three types
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Fundamentals of Planning and Design for Cycling: course notes
These notes accompanied the technical training course "Fundamentals for Planning and Design for Cycling", commissioned by Transfund New Zealand (now
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Building our way out of congestion
Government policy explicitly states that we will not try to build our way out of congestion. Yet Government transportation spending is at record
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Planning for certainty through sustainable transportation
This paper, from the 2005 Transit NZ Roading Symposium, looks at available data to understand congestion trends, travel time variability and fuel
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Accommodating cyclists at signalised intersections
This paper, from the 2005 NZ Cycling Conference, explores how cyclists can be accommodated at signalised intersections using specific cycle
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Planning and design for cycling: developing best practice in New Zealand
A "Cycle Network and Route Planning Guide" has been produced to provide a best practice framework for local cycle planning strategies. Similarly, a
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How safe are roundabouts for cyclists?
This article was published in TranSafe Issue 5 (Apr 2001). It concludes with the following paragraph:Some roundabout projects which achieve good
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