New Plymouth, 2 – 5 November
3M Award Winners and finalists:
- 3M Traffic Safety Innovation Award Winner:
Mike Smith (MWH New Zealand), David Pinkney, Mitch Tse, Brian Neill, Karisa Rabiero, Andy Milne – “Pedestrian Crossing Warning Lights Trial” - 3M Traffic Safety Innovation Award Finalist: Peter Mortimer (Downer EDI Works), Michael Flatters (MWH), Murray Clarke (NZTA), Kevin Barclay (Downer EDI Works) – “SH8 Beaumont Slip Active Warning System.
- 3M Traffic Safety Innovation Award Finalist: Ann Fosberry, Karen McNatty, Clare Cassidy (GHD Ltd) – “Manawatu District Council Route Studies”
Conference Presentations
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Mon 3 Nov 2008
- Multi Modal Transport Planning in Dorset (Paper)
Nick Rabbets (Dorset County Council) - Accessibility How We Got to School – A study of travel choices of primary school pupils (Paper)
Bill Rice * Highly commended paper - Accessibility Walking Networks and the Interaction with Public Transport (Paper)
Rueben Williams - Public Transport Accessibility Levels (Paper)
Steve Abley & Reuben Williams * Best Technical Note - Safety Participatory Road Design (Paper)
Dennis De Jong - Safety Road Safety Issues in Central Region (Paper)
James King - Safety Rural Crash Prediction Models – The Next Generation (Paper)
Dr Shane Turner - Safety Billboard Best Practice (Paper)
Michael Chou - Safety Signalised roundabout design for improved pedestrian and cyclist safety (Paper)
Andrew Macbeth - Pedestrian Crossing Flashing Stud Trial (Paper)
Mike Smith - Pedestrians Staged Pedestrian Crossings (Paper)
Megan Fowler * Best Young Author - Pedestrians Reducing Pedestrian Delays at Traffic Signals (Paper)
Chris Vallyon - Traffic Management Reducing Congestion and Improving our Environment through Route Optimisation (Paper)
Blair Monk - Pedestrians Traffic Signal Trial on SH5 at Ngongotaha Roundabout (Paper)
Gansen Govender & David Maritz * Highly commended technical note
Tue 4 Nov 2008
- Network Management – Use of state-of-the-art fusion of ITS to assess the success of transport initiatives (Paper)
Matthew Ensor, Dr Ngoc Nguyen & Michael Daley * AA Award for Best Transportation Paper - A Practical Approach to Integrating Land Use and Transport (Paper)
Steve Higgs & John Hassan * Highly commended paper - Network Management – Determining the Transport Effects of alternative Land Uses (Paper)
Laura Skilton - Travel National Travel Profiling – Description of Daily Travel Patterns (Paper)
Michael Chou - Travel Correlation of UK and NZ Trip & Parking Rates (Paper)
Andy Milne - 3M Awards presentations
- Winner – Mike Smith
- 2007 Winner report – George Jasonsmith
- Finalists – Ann Fosberry, Peter Mortimer
Wed 5 Nov 2008
- Level of Service F: is it really as bad as it gets? (Paper)
Ian Clark - Strategy to Preserve the Road Hierarchy (Paper)
Paul Durdin * Highly commended technical note - Application of the Permitted Baseline Test (Paper)
Paul Durdin - Transport Impact Guidelines for Site Development (Paper)
Melissa Foster - Sustainable travel in areas not serviced by public transport (Paper)
Jacqueline Blake - “The High Costs of Free Parking”: How minimum parking standards are distorting travel demand, increasing living costs, and inhibiting smart growth (Paper)
Julie Anne Genter - Introducing Bus Priority in Christchurch (Paper)
Axel Wilke - Stocktake of the Land Transport NZ Funding Allocation Process (Paper)
Sandy Fong - The accessibility sustainability connection exploring the links between accessibility and sustainability (Paper)
Pania Elliott - NZ Transport Challenges – Two Think Pieces (Paper)
Geoff Mansell