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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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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Cycle facilities at traffic signals
This presentation was given to the Network Operations Team of Christchurch City Council. It covers good design practices for cycle facilities at
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Stops and Goes of Traffic Signals – SNUG 2004
The Signals NZ User Group (SNUG) meets annually for a workshop. The purpose of the presentation is to inform traffic signal practitioners of the
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Stops and Goes of Traffic Signals - TMW
The recommendations of this remit are:
Engage competent signal engineer for the peer review of new designs
Road safety audit process is not
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Estimating a cycling AADT
The purpose of this remit is to inform the profession about a procedure for estimating a cycling AADT (average annual daily traffic).Funding
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The value of technical peer reviews
The relatively limited number of experienced cycle facility designers in New Zealand means there is great value to be gained through the careful use
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Diagonal cycle crossing for signalised intersection
Designers ViaStrada and Maunsell have developed an innovative concept, which proposes a diagonal cycle phase to run concurrently with opposing right
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Innovative diagonal cycle crossing solution for busy intersection
Auckland City Council has developed an innovative diagonal cycle call-phase to run concurrently with opposing right-turning traffic to resolve a
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VeloCity Conference 2007: lessons for NZ
Axel Wilke has come back from the 2007 VeloCity cycling conference in Munich with 'lessons for NZ'. He presented the most important topics to the
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Traffic Control Devices: rule revision
This presentation is reporting on a submission that Axel Wilke and Bill Sissons have produced on behalf of Christchurch City Council in order to
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Designing signalised intersections for cyclists
This remit was given to the Signals NZ User Group (SNUG) at the 2002 annual meeting in Christchurch.
Axel Downard-Wilke
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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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Audit of signalised intersections: recommendations for practitioners
As part of a drive by the ‘Signals New Zealand User Group’ (SNUG) to achieve better consistency with the design and operation of traffic signals
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Writing submissions: how to be effective?
This presentation was given to the 2005 Community Road Safety Symposium. Read on to find out more...
Axel Downard-Wilke
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ARTA cycle route network analysis tool
This conference remit describes an innovative approach developed to analyse cycle route network concepts. The remit is based on a study undertaken
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Making a congested offset signalised T-intersection work
The given problem is a signalised staggered T intersection that is congested. The queue space between adjacent T intersections is filling up. There
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Paramics modelling of congested offset T-intersection
The given problem is a signalised staggered T intersection that is congested. The queue space between adjacent T intersections is filling up. There
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Stops and Goes of Traffic Signals: a traffic signal auditor's perspective
Land Transport NZ (formerly Transfund NZ) commissioned Axel Wilke to prepare this booklet. The purpose was to contribute to the objectives of the
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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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Cycle paths at signalised cross intersections
This remit was given to the Signals NZ User Group (SNUG) at the 2005 annual meeting in Christchurch. Read on to find out more...
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NZ Supplement to Austroads Part 14: Bicycles
This remit was given to the Signals NZ User Group (SNUG) at the 2003 annual meeting in Palmerston North. It makes the following recommendations:
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