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.

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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