Presentations and Publications by Glen Koorey

Learnings from cycling in Europe

With the current significant investment in cycling in New Zealand, many people hope that we can grow cycling usage levels to match those found in …
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Making Space: Innovative Ways to Fit Multiple Modes within Narrow Cross Sections

Glen Koorey presented at the IPENZ Transportation Group Conference in March 2016, with co-presenter John Lieswyn. Their paper was titled Making …
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The effect of cycle lanes on cycling numbers and safety

Glen Koorey presented at the 2016 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC about a research project investigating the relative effects on cycle count and …
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Cycling Futures - Spaces for Cycling

While previously at Canterbury University, Glen Koorey contributed a chapter to the Australasian book "Cycling Futures", focusing on how best to …
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Effect of on-street parking on traffic speeds

Glen Koorey presented at the 2015 IPENZ Transportation Conference about a study to determine the extent that traffic speed is affected by on-street …
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The feasibility of implementing international "pedestrian crosswalk" laws in New Zealand

Glen Koorey presented a paper at the 2015 IPENZ Transportation Conference that investigated the effects of changing current NZ pedestrian give-way …
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Safer Journeys for people who cycle: Cycling Safety Panel Final Report & Recommendations

Following a Coronial Inquiry into cycling safety, the NZ Transport Agency established a Cycling Safety Panel to investigate ways in which cycling on …
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Learning from Failures: Using Historical Engineering Projects to Teach Better Professional Engineering Skills

At the 4th Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference in 2014, Glen Koorey gave a presentation on how a new final-year engineering course at …
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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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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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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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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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Assessment of the type of cycling infrastructure required to attract new cyclists

Working with fellow UC researchers, Glen Koorey (then at Canterbury University) investigated for NZTA what type of cycling infrastructure (i.e. …
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Incorporating Safety into Rural Highway Design

Between 2003-2009, Glen Koorey undertook PhD (doctoral) research to explore ways to assess the safety performance of (predominantly two-lane) rural …
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Putting the “e” into advocate: online content management systems

Sparked by a desire to upgrade its existing email-list system, Spokes Canterbury has embarked on a project to develop a new online website and …
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Effect of road bendiness on traffic crashes

This paper summarises the findings of a comprehensive study of the effects of road network bendiness on traffic crashes that used GIS (geographical …
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The effects of the Pages Road cycle lane on cyclist safety and traffic flow operations

This paper discusses the effects the installation of an on-road cycle lane had on traffic flow operations and the safety of its users. Three types …
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Fundamentals of Planning and Design for Cycling: course notes

These notes accompanied the technical training course "Fundamentals for Planning and Design for Cycling", commissioned by Transfund New Zealand (now …
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