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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How do we make cycle-friendly cities?
Glen Koorey gave a wide-ranging presentation to members of the Timaru chapter of the "University of the 3rd Age" investigating what exactly is
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Has Cycling Safety in New Zealand improved?
Is cycling safety in NZ getting better or is there little change? At the 2023 Australasian Road Safety Conference, Glen Koorey gave a presentation
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How do we sell the Benefits of Lower Speeds?
Why is it so hard to get traction on introducing lower speeds in NZ, despite their obvious benefits? At the 2023 Australasian Road Safety Conference
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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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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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Cost of Road Traffic Accidents (DTCC Study WP D1)
ViaStrada delivered a working paper summarising the methodology and calculations to derive estimates of the Total (Social) Costs, Average Costs,
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How do we measure Harm in Transport? (TG2023)
Traditional road safety measures of harm like the numbers of deaths and injuries suffered in crashes are often under-reported but also overlook
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Implications from the study of Road Transport Accident Costs
ViaStrada investigated the costs of “transport-related accidents” on roads as part of the recent MoT Domestic Transport Costs & Charges study.
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How do we measure Harm in Land Transport? (ARSC)
Traditional road safety measures of harm like the numbers of deaths and injuries suffered in crashes are often under-reported but also overlook
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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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Domestic Transport Costs and Charges: Road Crashes
Glen Koorey presented an industry webinar in Aug 2022 summarising ViaStrada's investigation into the social costs in NZ of road transport-related
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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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Hidden Harm: Walking Injuries in Auckland
Glen Koorey presented a poster at the 2021 Transport Knowledge Conference summarising recent work looking at pedestrian deaths and serious injuries
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Pathways for chartered transportation professionals in NZ
The transportation profession incorporates people with diverse backgrounds and education, and this enriches our community, yet many don’t have a
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Cycling Network Guidance updates
This poster presentation gives an overview of amendments to the Cycling network guidance (CNG) that have been published since January 2020.
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NZAA: Speed Management & Cycle Planning/Design
Glen Koorey gave a presentation discussing some aspects of speed management and cycle planning/design practices in NZ to a Canterbury/Westland
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Colour my world: safe, sensible surfaces
At the 2021 2WALKandCYCLE Conference in Dunedin, Glen Koorey gave a presentation reviewing options for using different colours for surfaces of
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Blind driveways
In early 2020, Waka Kotahi (the NZ Transport Agency) consulted on a proposal to allow cycling on footpaths for everyone. Yet district plans allow
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Directional cycle signals (SNUG 2021)
A formal trial for directional cycle signals was completed in 2019 based on sites in Auckland and Christchurch. This presentation at the 2021 SNUG
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Lessons to be Learned from Transportation Engineering Failures
In the third of a series of Engineering NZ webinars, TGNZ National Cm'tee members Jeanette Ward, Glen Koorey and Bridget Burdett looked at road
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The benefits of speed management
In January 2021, Glen Koorey hosted an industry webinar discussing the several benefits of speed management, and some tactics for implementing this
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Lessons to be Learned from Engineering Failures
In the first of a series of Engineering NZ webinars, Glen Koorey with Gordon Hughes introduced the concept of how we as engineers often need to
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