Many of ViaStrada’s staff have a wealth of knowledge and experience on various transport topics, building on their work in industry and research. As a result, we are often asked to deliver presentations and guest lectures to tertiary training courses, industry forums, or other public events.
If you have a transport subject where you would like some expert coverage of the issues to a target audience, please get in touch with us.
Following his previous academic career at Canterbury University, Glen Koorey has continued to regularly guest lecture in New Zealand tertiary institutions on traffic engineering, road safety, and sustainable transport topics, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Subjects taught include:
University of Canterbury:
Since 2006, Axel Wilke has been a guest lecturer at the University of Canterbury for the Masters of Transportation course covering the following topics:
The University of Canterbury introduced a new course in 2008 - Transport Design Project. Industry mentors assisted groups of four students during the course of the project. Jeanette Ward and Axel Wilke mentored one of the groups.
ARRB Group (Melbourne) ran two-day workshops on "planning and developing walking and cycling strategies" in Australia and NZ. Andrew Macbeth teamed up with ARRB to develop content and deliver (with an ARRB co-presenter) the NZ workshops in Wellington and Christchurch.
