Presentations and Publications by John Lieswyn

Determining the Minimum Data Requirements for Improving Pedestrian Safety webinar

What data do we really need to improve pedestrian safety?ViaStrada's John Lieswyn and Glen Koorey joined Phil Harbutt from Pivot Space to present …
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Minimum Data Requirements for Pedestrian Safety Guideline

As part of ViaStrada research into minimum walking data requirements to progress pedestrian safety, this Guideline and data framework spreadsheet …
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Research Report: Determining the Minimum Data Requirements to Progress Pedestrian Safety

This Austroads report summarises research undertaken by ViaStrada for determining the minimum data requirements to measure and improve pedestrian …
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Does road-space reallocation affect network VKT?

At the 2026 NZ Transportation Conference, Glen presented on some NZTA research that investigated the impacts of permanent road-space reallocation on …
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Minimum datasets for pedestrian safety

The Austroads’ funded project Keeping People Safe When Walking aims to help chart a path to zero pedestrian serious trauma, by establishing a …
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Evidence review of road-space reallocation

ViaStrada undertook research for NZTA investigating the measured network vehicle-kilometres travelled (VKT) impacts of permanent road space re …
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Austroads Pedestrian Safety Data Research Yields Useful Findings for Health Researchers

This research shows that emerging new technologies like WiFi probes and artificial intelligence processing of video feeds can help measure levels of …
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Accessibility auditing

How do we gather information about our streets and paths to improve them for people of all ages and abilities? John …
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Mode-shift impacts on safety

Our current understanding of the impacts of mode change on safety is limited, due to the complex interactions between the various risk factors plus …
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Reducing Car Dependency in Pacific Island Cities

John Lieswyn was recruited by the World Bank to join an international cast of subject matter experts producing a comprehensive report on ways to …
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Pedestrian and micro-mobility monitoring deployment in Northland

Northland is building an urban and rural network of shared pathways for people walking, biking, and scooting. In the largest city, Whangārei, …
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Quantifying the economic impact of investing in pedestrian networks

We can quantify the economic impact of investing in roads for motor vehicle drivers, why not pedestrians? This presentation describes a simple …
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A better cycling demand model

John presented “A better cycling demand model” at the 2022 NZMUGS Conference in Christchurch. This presentation followed on from research by …
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Why don't we build safe roundabouts?

In New Zealand, we are currently being told that "it's time we stopped paying the road toll". Yet our roundabout design philosophy utilising a …
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Research note 006: Infrastructure for quick-build cycleways

This research note provides information about the best infrastructure options for installing quick-build (interim) separated cycleways to increase …
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Road space reallocation: evidence and learnings

In many countries, road space is often allocated primarily for motor vehicles. The negative health and well-being externalities of such an …
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Pedestrian network guidance (2WALKandCYCLE)

The Pedestrian Network Guidance (PNG) is going online soon, as an update of the ground-breaking Pedestrian Planning and Design Guide (PPDG) …
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Conceptual framework for modelling safe walking and cycling routes to high schools

This article presents a comprehensive conceptual framework for modelling safe walking and cycling routes to school for adolescents. The framework …
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Walk21 reflections

The 2019 Walk21 conference was held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. New Zealand was represented by John Lieswyn of ViaStrada and Gerry Dance of the …
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Palmerston North urban cycle network plan

Palmerston North once had the highest rate of cycling to work (as measured by the census) in New Zealand, but in recent years the number of cycling …
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