Transport planning and policy
We undertake a wide range of transport planning and policy services, including
- School and workplace travel plans
- Reviews of and advice regarding transport legislation/regulations
- Speed management reviews/strategies
- Development/update of walking/cycling strategies and network plans
- Transport/parking reviews of new development proposals
- Area-wide sustainable transport plans
ViaStrada was engaged by ARTA to develop a tool to convert short-term manual cycle counts to "annual average daily traffic" estimates of cycle traffic. The methodology used standard pneumatic traffic counters with softer than normal rubber road tubes for detecting cycles.
Environment Canterbury (ECan) is developing a regional cycle network plan. ViaStrada staff developed an audit methodology, enabling alternative network elements to be compared with one another. The resulting methodology combines site visits with a clever RAMM assessment.
MWH New Zealand Ltd (Christchurch) and ViaStrada evaluated five different potential cycle network models. ARTA’s British expert peer reviewer thought that our GIS-based methodology, using Auckland demographic data and existing transport models, was pretty clever.
Christchurch City Council commissioned ViaStrada to undertake a queue and delay study on the Lowther Street approach to Main South Road (SH73A), where the main road is subject to queuing back from the Sockburn Roundabout.