Presenter biography – John Lieswyn John Lieswyn will be presenting this paper on behalf of his fellow ViaStrada director, Glen. John’s relevant experience includes Taupo’s speed management plan, the pre-earthquake Christchurch Slow Core Study and research on camera enforcement. Author biography – Dr Glen Koorey Glen specialises in road safety and sustainable transport, with particular interest and expertise in walking and cycling, speed/traffic management, and future transport technologies. Particularly as part of his previous academic role, he has travelled extensively to study overseas practices and collaborate with research colleagues in these areas, and he continues to maintain regular contact with other key international experts on these topics. Glen is an award-winning author of over 130 conference and journal papers, book chapters, industry research reports, media articles and other published works

Geoff is an experienced Transport Engineer with a passion for creating efficient and impactful transport outcomes. He is currently an Associate Director and Team Lead of Transport Advisory for AECOM in Auckland. Geoff’s career began in the UK, where he started out as a Transport Planner, building a strong foundation of expertise in the field. He then spent 6 years working in the Middle East on ground-breaking infrastructure projects. Throughout this career Geoff has been involved in some notable projects such as the Dunedin Retail Quarter, the Diriyah Gate project in Saudi Arabia, and the Qiddiya entertainment precinct. These projects will leave a strong legacy. Geoff is well regarded for his dedication to excellence and effective leadership on complex projects. He continues to make a positive impact on the ever-evolving field of transport engineering.

Kit is an Urban Transport Planner at Coalesce Consulting, based in Auckland. Specialising in sustainable transport solutions with a focus on walking, cycling, micro-mobility, and public transport systems. Kit has worked on both the consultant and client-side, involved in all things active modes from strategy and business cases to design support on-site during delivery and everything in between. Having previously worked for Manukau City Council, Kit’s been lucky enough to build on those relationships and continued to work in South Auckland with involvement a number of current walking and cycling projects in Māngere and Manukau. At the conference, Kit will share insights from current projects, including trial cycleways, that highlight how consultants, community partners and clients can work together to give cycling projects the best chance of successful consultation, delivery, and use.

Founder of Time to Thrive to Stay Alive Charitable trust - Triple Teez, Māngere BikeFIT and the Māngere community bike HUB. Keeping the wheels spinning for over 10years. Passionate and active cyclist and a community advocate for safer and better cycling environment, working with schools and community groups to make cycling an essential mode of transportation, support recycling and reduce individual carbon footprint and better health and wellbeing.

Time to Thrive to Stay Alive Operations manager. An e-bike cycle hero, enjoy being out and about on my e-bikes, avoiding gridlock on roads at peak times. Working with Triple Teez and Māngere bikeFIT community HUB operational team with support, leadership and implementation of activations, community engagements, events and bikes in schools.

Allyn leads People Power Streets, a collection of programmes at Auckland Transport (AT) dedicated to creating vibrant streets that prioritise people and test novel ideas that can be incorporated into AT’s future processes and decision making. Bringing experience from both public and private sectors, Allyn combines his professional expertise with a passion for cycling and active modes, including public transport. He champions community-led programmes and projects that empower residents, especially tamariki, to have their voices heard. By focusing on community needs, these projects aim to deliver tangible benefits to the neighbourhoods that ignite them in an accelerated timeframe. At the conference, Allyn will share insights from ongoing projects, highlighting how AT programmes respond to community requests and deliver impactful outcomes, align with future strategies for sustainable transportation, foster collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas and empower communities to work together for successful project implementation.

I am Remco de Blaaij and working as a Team Leader for Sustainable Mobility at Auckland Transport. What we hope to bring across is to make visible and argue for the introduction of a more human centred approach to infrastructure programming. We focus on "Build it and some will come", approach, acknowledging that thinking in concrete and asphalt is important, but not without putting a human approach to it as well. This means solid investment in the future people that will use the infrastructure, understanding the needs, hear their stories and put forward sustainable support to organise a programme of their own. What we are after are not short term successes, but uses and approach that stand the time of time well and acknowledge the need to think and act in a human way.

Matt has over a decade of experience delivering innovative walking and cycling projects and advocating for significant improvement in outcomes for communities and the environment. Matt founded and leads Crank, a consultancy offering project management, community engagement and communication services to council-led transport projects seeking improved outcomes for people and the planet. Crank advocates for roles and budgets for local community partners on all their projects, and they’ve enjoyed working alongside Triple Teez in Māngere over the past three years. Crank’s advocacy for community partnership comes, in part, from Matt’s personal experience over the past seven years co-leading a cycling-focused advocacy and activation group in his community. Matt will bring to the session his unique perspective as both a consultant and community partner, working alongside Council strategic and project delivery teams.

Billy is a chartered professional Civil and Transport Engineer based in Wellington. He has worked across a range of Wellington cycleway projects, most recently on the WCC Transitional Cycleways programme where he has led the StepChange consortia design team for the last two years. His favourite part is site visits on his bike to test options, closely followed by coming up with design solutions to tricky areas balancing feedback from different stakeholders. Ann-Marie is a Chartered Transport Engineer based in Christchurch. She is passionate about creating urban environments that encourage and support people to be safe, healthy and happy whilst minimising environmental impacts. Ann-Marie has been a key member of the StepChange team delivering some of the WCC Transitional Cycleways programme for the last two years. Ann-Marie also undertakes transport research, develops best practice industry guidance, prepares transport strategies, programmes and plans, and carries out safe system audits.

Mitra Prasad Technical Lead Active Modes - Network Management - Auckland Transport Mitra Prasad has over 15 years experience in the transportation field having been involved in transportation planning, design and project delivery in both consultancy and local government. For the last two years Mitra has been primarily involved in ensuring great outcomes for active modes are delivered in Auckland through infrastructure projects, network operations and community empowerment. Mitra has a passion for cycling as a mode of transportation and loves nothing more than to take his daughter for bike rides in beautiful Tamaki Makaurau

Putri Kusumawardhani Putri has 9 years of experience in urban design (AECOM Indonesia) and nearly 3 years of expertise in transportation (Auckland Transport). The mix of Urban Design and Transportation offering a unique perspective rooted in integrated design thinking. Danny Song Ken Lee-Jones Ken Lee-Jones is a cycling enthusiast who has many years experience in Auckland: planning, designing and building cycling and shared path Infrastructure. He managed a small team that was primarily responsible for cycling and walking projects in Auckland Central. Ken is now a specialist consultant with a focus on cycling and shared path projects including developing community projects. Ken is a Chartered Engineer of New Zealand with experience in Transportation Engineering and Project Management.

Ben is heavily involved in the route selection, public consultation, scheme and detailed design and construction of cycling facilities in Christchurch, where he is based, as well as in many other parts of New Zealand. His recent work has included roles in three multi-consultancy design teams delivering cycling and accessibility improvements in different parts of the country. He has worked almost purely in the field of active travel since 2014 and has a background in a variety of other transportation activities. Ben has designed many kilometres of cycle facilities in urban, suburban, and industrial environments, along with dozens of intersections. His experience throughout the project lifecycle, and time in the contracting industry, has given him a vast range of experience and lessons to draw from in his design practice. Whilst much of his work has been focused on cycling projects, Ben is a firm believer that a cycleway is an opportunity to bring benefits to a community that extend beyond cycling.