Providing ways for people to get safely and efficiently to schools and workplaces is part of an effective and sustainable transport system. ViaStrada has developed school travel plans in Hastings, Palmerston North, Whakatāne, and Whangārei as well as assisting with the Hastings District Council workplace travel plan. John has presented on travel planning internationally, produced travel plans for the many cities in California and conducted evaluations for school travel planning activities in Alameda County, California and Auckland, NZ.
School & workplace travel
Relevant Projects
Streets for People - Aranui Connections
Christchurch City Council was successful in receiving funding from the Streets for People programme. ViaStrada provided the technical advice and design from the initial concept, and scheme through to detailed design to make Aranui streets more people friendly. This project was rolled out using a tactical urbanism approach to implement changes in a cost-effective manner for the community to adapt to and provide feedback on.
Key Contact: David McCormick
Dunedin Tertiary Area Shared Space Investigation
ViaStrada provided professional advice to council staff to help prepare them for discussion with elected members regarding the Albany Street cycleway through the tertiary precinct.
The report addressed council’s key questions:
Is Albany Street likely to remain the preferred route for a dedicated cycleway?
Key Contact: John Lieswyn
Western Bay Sub-region Travel Demand Management (TDM) Scoping Study
ViaStrada supported Vitruvius by preparing an online StoryMap of Travel Demand Management case studies, assessing travel demand by each mode, existing and proposed networks, and the opportunity for mode shift if supported by various scenarios of behaviour change investments.
Key recommended actions arising from this work include:
Key Contact: John Lieswyn
Dunedin Central City schools cluster road safety
Dunedin City Council commissioned ViaStrada to develop an area-wide approach to addressing road safety issues around the five central city schools. By considering the whole study area as one (i.e. the “Central Schools Cluster”), a series of consistent treatments can be used to reinforce to all users entering the area (especially motorists) that they need to look out for other users (especially school pupils) and behave appropriately.
Key Contact: Glen Koorey
Palmerston Nth Bikes in Schools review
The Palmerston North City Council has implemented Bikes in Schools (BiS) at six local schools. Typically, a BiS programme includes a circuit track, skills track and pump track on site at school, together with sufficient bikes and helmets for classes to use them for different activities.
Key Contact: Glen Koorey
Hastings District school travel plans
ViaStrada's John Lieswyn led the development of travel plans for nine primary and high schools within the Hastings District, and assisted the Hastings District Council with their own workplace travel plan. The project formed part of HDC's iWay programme, which aims to tackle declining rates of walking and cycling with carefully planned, sustained investment in walking and cycling.
Key Contact: John Lieswyn
Safe Routes to School evaluation
ViaStrada conducted an analysis of reported vehicle/pedestrian and vehicle/bicyclist crash data for the five years prior and three years post improvements at schools across the Auckland region.
Treatments included safe routes to school educational programmes (141 treatment and control sites) and 40 km/h reduced speed limits (90 treatment and control sites).Key Contact: John Lieswyn
Transport network optimisation think-piece
ViaStrada undertook research both domestically and overseas to produce a major discussion document for the New Zealand Transport Agency.
The "think-piece" looks at ways of optimising New Zealand's road transport network. Seven themes are explored through a literature review, five overseas case studies and 30 New Zealand "best-practice" examples. The themes are:
Key Contact: Axel Downard-Wilke