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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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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Bicycle lanes at roundabouts

ViaStrada and CDM Research have carried out research on bicycle lanes at roundabouts for Austroads that was first presented at the 2012 Bike Futures …
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Assessment of bicycle lane separators

ViaStrada is carrying out research on bicycle lane separators for VicRoads. Axel Wilke presented on progress at the 2012 Bike Futures Conference in …
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Bicycle lanes at roundabouts

ViaStrada and CDM Research are carrying out research on bicycle lanes at roundabouts for Austroads. At the 2011 Bike Futures Conference, Tony Barton …
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Cycling and Sustainability - Network Planning and Infrastructure Design

While previously at Canterbury University, Glen Koorey contributed a chapter to a book on cycling, focusing on planning and design approaches for …
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Delivering a new 'main street'

For the Kaiapoi Town Centre project, a Reference Group of community representatives was established to work alongside the design team and council …
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Development of an automatic cycle counting programme for Hamilton City

Following on from the 2008 NZTA funded investigation by ViaStrada into methods of continuous cycle counting, this conference paper summarises the …
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An illustrated lexicon of cycle facilities

This technical note and poster proposes a glossary of cycling facility terms with the aim of reducing confusion amongst practitioners. It was …
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Prioritising Pedestrians for a Vibrant Town Centre

At the 2WALKandCYCLE 2012 Conference, John Lieswyn gave a presentation describing the work undertaken to investigate existing pedestrian issues in …
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