Publications and Presentations

Walking and cycling strategies are useful tools that aid councils in providing for pedestrians and cyclists. A stocktake of all current walking and …

Traditionally aimed at roading engineers and contractors, the conference this year focused more attention on the new era under the NZ Transport …

The Cycling Advocates' Network (CAN) has presented the 6th annual Cycle-Friendly Awards, celebrating initiatives to promote cycling and create a …

The document looks at ways of optimising New Zealand's road transport network. It is assumed that we will not be attempting to build our way out of …

ViaStrada took a leading role in research to develop a technique for estimating cycle traffic on new cycle facilities. The research has been …

Andrew presented information on how to count bicycle traffic by a variety of methods. The presentation also discusses current research on field …

This presentation discusses recent work done by ViaStrada on cycle traffic counting, including a survey of all councils and Transit offices about …

The purpose of this presentation is to stimulate discussion and feedback from signal engineers at the SNUG (Signals NZ User Group) workshop. The …

Cycle route network planning is usually a fairly subjective process, with local or regional council staff and perhaps cycling advocates identifying …

The relatively limited number of experienced cycle facility designers in New Zealand means there is great value to be gained through the careful use …

Designers ViaStrada and Maunsell have developed an innovative concept, which proposes a diagonal cycle phase to run concurrently with opposing right …

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 …

Devised by the Cycling Advocates’ Network (CAN), the national organisation promoting everyday cycling, and sponsored by Sport and Recreation New …

Functional road classification systems or road hierarchies are widely used in all aspects of traffic planning, traffic operations and road asset …

Auckland City Council has developed an innovative diagonal cycle call-phase to run concurrently with opposing right-turning traffic to resolve a …

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 …

Land Transport NZ hosts an annual workshop for road controlling authorities on the topic of Safety Management Systems. ViaStrada was invited to …

These notes accompanied the technical training course "Fundamentals for Planning and Design for Cycling", commissioned by Transfund New Zealand (now …

Land Transport NZ (formerly Transfund NZ) commissioned Axel Wilke to prepare this booklet. The purpose was to contribute to the objectives of the …

The given problem is a signalised staggered T intersection that is congested. The queue space between adjacent T intersections is filling up. There …

Government policy explicitly states that we will not try to build our way out of congestion. Yet Government transportation spending is at record …

This conference remit describes an innovative approach developed to analyse cycle route network concepts. The remit is based on a study undertaken …

The given problem is a signalised staggered T intersection that is congested. The queue space between adjacent T intersections is filling up. There …

This paper, from the 2005 Transit NZ Roading Symposium, looks at available data to understand congestion trends, travel time variability and fuel …