Ann-Marie is a Chartered Professional Engineer with 19 years’ experience in consultancy providing transportation planning and traffic engineering advice to public and private sector clients. Ann-Marie has a wide skill base including undertaking transport research, developing best practice industry guidance, preparing transport strategies, assessing transport effects of development, advising on district plan reviews, travel planning and behaviour change, and solving other transport planning and engineering issues. She has a particular interest in more sustainable travel modes including walking, cycling and public transport, and the ways in which these modes contribute to vibrant and liveable communities. She has a keen interest in sustainability and climate change and how carbon emissions through transport can be reduced for a better world.

Jeanette is a transport specialist with a particular interest in walking and cycling and streetscape design. She has many years’ of diverse civil engineering experience, focusing on transport engineering/design, transport planning, land development and project management of transport projects. Over the last two years Jeanette has been helping Waka Kotahi and Austroads update their pedestrian planning and design guidance to reflect international best practice. Jeanette is the Chair of the Engineering New Zealand Transportation Group and passionate about creating better places!

Rebekah works in transport and road safety research and has a background in health and public engagement and communications. She has worked in the transport sector for the last 4 years and recently completed a Master of Public Health exploring community experiences of a walking and cycling intervention.

Bridget Burdett is a Principal Researcher at MRCagney, based in Hamilton. She is a Chartered Engineer in transport with a doctorate in cognitive psychology. Bridget regularly presents on inclusive access and road safety to audiences of transport professionals and community, with a focus on challenging us all to think about what ‘best practice’ means for the people we work with, and those we serve. She works on transport research, policy, and practice for a variety of government, university, and private sector clients around New Zealand.

Bridget Burdett is a Principal Researcher at MRCagney, based in Hamilton. She is a Chartered Engineer in transport with a doctorate in cognitive psychology. Bridget regularly presents on inclusive access and road safety to audiences of transport professionals and community, with a focus on challenging us all to think about what ‘best practice’ means for the people we work with, and those we serve. She works on transport research, policy, and practice for a variety of government, university, and private sector clients around New Zealand.