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.

NZTA Pedestrian and Cycle Crossings webinar

Glen Koorey co-presented an NZTA webinar designed to inform the industry on the latest NZ guidance on planning and design of active mode crossings. …
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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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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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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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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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Supercharging Urban Development in Ōtautahi Christchurch

Te Pūtahi, the Christchurch centre for architecture and city-making, organised an event to introduce the new requirements and tools enacted by the …
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Cycling and the law: Road Rules around biking

As part of the Biketober Christchurch transport seminar series during Oct 2020, Glen Koorey gave a public presentation and chat introducing some of …
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Christchurch cycling history

For Biketober 2020, Axel prepared a potted 21st century history of cycling in Christchurch titled "From moratorium to major cycle routes". The talk …
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Does speed greatly affect travel time?

Lower speeds are one of the fundamental ways to improve road safety outcomes in New Zealand and to provide more equity and access to a wider range …
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Zone 0

Visitors and residents alike loved the free central city Shuttle. It was introduced in 1998 and ceased operating with the February 2011 earthquake. …
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Cycling Infrastructure: If you build it, will they come? (and will they be safe?)

At the 8th International Cycling Safety Conference in Brisbane, Nov 2019, Glen delivered a keynote presentation looking at the relationship between …
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Local Transport Issues for Christchurch

At a Tuesday Club session, Glen Koorey provided a wide-ranging presentation offering some thoughts and ideas about the state of transport in …
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