Publications and presentations

The safety of pedestrians crossing multi-lane road intersections is often threatened by filtering turning vehicles. The introduction of staged …

ViaStrada was commissioned by the Christchurch City Council to undertake an investigation into the provision of protected right turns at two of the …

This technical note summarises two "think-pieces" commissioned by the former Land Transport NZ (now the New Zealand Transport Agency) in 2008.The …

The safety of pedestrians crossing multi-lane road intersections is often threatened by filtering turning vehicles. The introduction of staged …

A difficult problem was reviewed by ViaStrada at the request of a road controlling authority. An urban arterial road with a 50 km/h speed limit …

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 …

At the Trafinz Conference in Christchurch (8-10 September 2008) ViaStrada presented the preliminary results of an inductive loop, continuous cycle …

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 …

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

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

This paper summarises the findings of a comprehensive study of the effects of road network bendiness on traffic crashes that used GIS (geographical …

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

This paper discusses the effects the installation of an on-road cycle lane had on traffic flow operations and the safety of its users. Three types …

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 …

This project was undertaken by ViaStrada's Megan Fowler as part of the third professional year of her Bachelor of Engineering university studies. …

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