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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Making Space: Innovative Ways to Fit Multiple Modes within Narrow Cross Sections
Glen Koorey presented at the IPENZ Transportation Group Conference in March 2016, with co-presenter John Lieswyn. Their paper was titled Making
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Cycling network guidance: planning and design
ViaStrada and Abley Transportation Consultants were commissioned by the NZ Transport Agency to develop a national framework of guidance for planning
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Major cycleways and electric bicycles
The Canterbury branch of the Transportation Group had a meeting where two presenters talked about e-bikes. John Lieswyn's presentation covered two
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The effect of cycle lanes on cycling numbers and safety
Glen Koorey presented at the 2016 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC about a research project investigating the relative effects on cycle count and
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Cycling Futures - Spaces for Cycling
While previously at Canterbury University, Glen Koorey contributed a chapter to the Australasian book "Cycling Futures", focusing on how best to
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Cycling guidelines development
At the Bike Futures conference in Melbourne in October 2015, Axel Downard-Wilke presented on the development of New Zealand national cycling
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Industry training for cycling
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight how professional training courses about planning and design for cycling contribute to a safe system
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Effect of on-street parking on traffic speeds
Glen Koorey presented at the 2015 IPENZ Transportation Conference about a study to determine the extent that traffic speed is affected by on-street
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The feasibility of implementing international "pedestrian crosswalk" laws in New Zealand
Glen Koorey presented a paper at the 2015 IPENZ Transportation Conference that investigated the effects of changing current NZ pedestrian give-way
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Safer Journeys for people who cycle: Cycling Safety Panel Final Report & Recommendations
Following a Coronial Inquiry into cycling safety, the NZ Transport Agency established a Cycling Safety Panel to investigate ways in which cycling on
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Learning from Failures: Using Historical Engineering Projects to Teach Better Professional Engineering Skills
At the 4th Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference in 2014, Glen Koorey gave a presentation on how a new final-year engineering course at
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Separated Bicycle Facilities: legal issues
More and more Separated Bicycle Facilities (SBFs) are proposed in New Zealand, but their integration into signalised intersections is not well
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Palmerston North Junior Road Safety Park
Palmerston North City Council (PNCC) is working towards supporting its community road safety educator’s with a Junior Road Safety Track in
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Bicycle network planning: the target audience approach
At the 2WALKandCYCLE conference in Nelson in October 2014, Axel Wilke presented a paper on Bicycle Network Planning: The Target Audience Approach
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Cycle Lane Marking Trial
A cycle lane marking trial on Dunedin’s Cumberland Street (State Highway 1) was undertaken. Non-standard road markings for cycle lanes were tested
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Effectiveness of Incident Management on Network Reliability – Stage 2
This NZTA research investigated how ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) measures, such as adaptive signal control (e.g. SCATS) and Variable Message
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High Visibility and Cycling ‐ Balancing Safety and Culture
At the 2014 Velo-City cycling conference in Adelaide, Glen gave an invited presentation on the impacts of high-visibility clothing on cycling
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Dunedin – leading the way in cycle planning in New Zealand
Dunedin has one of the lowest cycling to work mode shares of NZ cities, but this will change due to the provision of a comprehensive network mainly
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Assessment of on-road bicycle lanes at roundabouts
ViaStrada was commissioned by Austroads to undertake research into the effectiveness of on-road bicycle lanes at roundabouts in Australia and New
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Operating characteristics and economic evaluation of "2+1 lanes" with or without ITS assisted merging
Working with TDG, Glen Koorey (then at Canterbury University) investigated for NZTA developing, implementing and measuring safe and robust design
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Cyclist delay at traffic signals
Commuting trips by bicycle are generally short: the average one way commuter trip by bicycle in New Zealand is 4.1km long and takes 18.2 minutes.
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Dunedin Cycling Forum
As part of the consultation on the proposed South Dunedin cycle network, Dunedin City Council organised a Cycling Forum. Despite a very wet night,
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Assessment of bicycle lane separators (TG)
ViaStrada carried out research on bicycle lane separators for VicRoads in 2012. Glen Koorey (University of Canterbury) reported on the research at
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Assessing the environmental capacity of local residential streets
Glen Koorey presented at the 2013 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (Washington DC) on studies investigating whether a suitable maximum
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