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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Stops and Goes - The next generation
What’s changed at New Zealand’s signalised intersections over the past 20 years, and what hasn’t? Megan Gregory presented at the 2026 SNUG Workshop,
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Left turn treatments at signalised intersections presentation
Megan Gregory recently presented the findings of ViaStrada's white paper, Left Turn Treatments at Signalised Intersections: A Safety Review, at the
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Safe System Approach to Road Safety
Ashu Kedia delivered an invited online guest lecture on the Safe System Approach to Road Safety to student members of the Institution of
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Left turn treatments at signalised intersections - white paper
Are slip lanes inherently less safe than conventional signalised left turns? This review examines Australian and New Zealand research and finds that
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Assessment of loud vehicle, speed change and nuisance noise from road transport
Traffic noise is a growing environmental and public health concern, but what causes the loud, isolated noise events that generate the most community
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Minimum Data Requirements for Pedestrian Safety Guideline
As part of ViaStrada research into minimum walking data requirements to progress pedestrian safety, this Guideline and data framework spreadsheet
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Research Report: Determining the Minimum Data Requirements to Progress Pedestrian Safety
This Austroads report summarises research undertaken by ViaStrada for determining the minimum data requirements to measure and improve pedestrian
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Mode-shift impacts on safety
Our current understanding of the impacts of mode change on safety is limited, due to the complex interactions between the various risk factors plus
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Stops and Goes of Traffic Signals: a Traffic Signal Auditor’s Perspective
Originally authored in 2004, with minor updates in 2006, significant advancements since has meant the guide required updating.
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Modelling Consumers’ Preferences for Time-Slot Based Home Delivery of Goods Bought Online: An Empirical Study in Christchurch
This study investigates Christchurch residents’ preferences for different home delivery time slots for online purchases and examines whether off
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Assessing traffic characteristics for safe pedestrian crossings: Developing warrants for sustainable urban safety
This research evaluates traffic characteristics associated with safe pedestrian crossings and develops warrants to guide crossing provision. The
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Every stop counts: PTDG and GIS applications in bus stop assessment
The quality of public transport (PT) facilities is key to enabling mode shift. And while big-ticket items such as the Christchurch Bus Interchange
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Making traffic signals work for people cycling – update
Whether a cycle facility on the approach to traffic signals is painted or physically separated makes a big legal difference. The painted facility is
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Making traffic signals work for people cycling
Whether a cycle facility on the approach to traffic signals is painted or physically separated makes a big legal difference. The painted facility is
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Separated cycleways and filter turning
The Signals NZ User Group (SNUG) held its annual workshop in New Plymouth in 2023. Axel presented on separated cycleways and filter turning. The
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Stops and Goes of Traffic Signals – SNUG 2023
In 2023, the Signals NZ User Group (SNUG) held its annual workshop in New Plymouth. Axel presented on the publication Stops and Goes of Traffic
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Estimating the adoption of electric vehicles: A case study of four Indian states
This project examines electric vehicle (EV) adoption trends in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Gujarat and estimates how many EVs must be
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Free public transport – or how else do we reduce transport emissions?
Axel was invited to speak about “free public transport” to the Tuesday Club, the weekly meeting of an eclectic mix of people convened by former
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Why don't we build safe roundabouts?
In New Zealand, we are currently being told that "it's time we stopped paying the road toll". Yet our roundabout design philosophy utilising a
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Research note 006: Infrastructure for quick-build cycleways
This research note provides information about the best infrastructure options for installing quick-build (interim) separated cycleways to increase
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Why universal half-price public transport shouldn’t be made permanent
This opinion piece written for The Spinoff by Axel Downard-Wilke and published on 16 May 2022 explains why funding could be better spent on what's
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