Publications & presentations

Land Transport NZ hosts an annual workshop for road controlling authorities on the topic of Safety Management Systems. ViaStrada was invited to present some work from a recent project explaining the concept and advantages of a national road hierarchy. Land Transport NZ hopes to encourage incorporation of this into SMSs across the country on a voluntary basis over the next year or two.

This report describes research undertaken for Land Transport New Zealand on walking and cycling strategies. The study was carried out between August 2004 and August 2005. All 36 known New Zealand strategies publicly available at the end of 2004 were reviewed, plus a selection 8 of international strategies.

Axel Wilke has come back from the 2007 Velocity conference in Munich with 'lessons for NZ'. He presented the most important topics to the Canterbury Active Transport (CAT) Forum, covering a range of topics.

This paper outlines the process the Christchurch City Council has gone through and the outcomes we have arrived at, targeting the difficulties faced by children and student cyclists. It presents the consultative, the information gathering process and the results, which at this stage are programmed only, but which we hope to implement.

This presentation is reporting on a submission that Axel Wilke and Bill Sissons have produced on behalf of Christchurch City Council in order to inform the upcoming Traffic Control Devices (TCD) Rule that the Land Transport Safety Authority has commenced de

This report describes the development of two Paramics microsimulation traffic models: a small area model for the inner city bus station in Christchurch and its immediate environs, and an area wide model for the Christchurch suburb of Riccarton.

This remit was given to the Signals NZ User Group (SNUG) at the 2002 annual meeting in Christchurch. It makes the following recommendations:

• Benchmark Proposals against Six Generic Design Elements
• Put emphasis on Stress Point Treatment
• Adopt soon to be published TNZ ‘Cycling Design Guide’

The presentation is available online on this website.

These notes accompanied the technical training course "Fundamentals for Planning and Design for Cycling", commissioned by Transfund New Zealand (now part of Land Transport New Zealand). The structure of these notes followed the presentation of the one-day training course. It was intended that course attendees use these notes for more in-depth study of the topics covered in the course. The notes are no longer kept up to date.

This remit was given to the Signals NZ User Group (SNUG) at the 2003 annual meeting in Palmerston North. It makes the following recommendations:

As part of a drive by the ‘Signals New Zealand User Group’ (SNUG) to achieve better consistency with the design and operation of traffic signals throughout the country, Transfund (now part of Land Transport NZ) funded the development of a signal audit methodology, where safety and efficiency of traffic signals are examined. Using this methodology a sample of 123 signal installations, in the area covered by nine TLAs, were audited by April 2004.