Kent Lundberg is an urban planner and designer with fifteen years’ experience working in the urban planning, landscape architecture, and real estate services fields in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Kent has particular expertise in urban street design, cycleway planning and design, and public transport integration. Kent holds a Master of Urban Design from the University of Auckland and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Doug is a transport planner and policy analyst with more than 25 years’ professional experience, and specialises in public transport and business case development. His experience includes public sector roles in central and local government, and consulting roles advising New Zealand and international clients on a broad range of transport issues. He has also participated in a wide range of research through the NZ Transport Agency Research Programme.

Dave leads the Transportation Planning team at Abley Transportation Consultants. He has a wealth of experience as a transport planner and modeller, having led and managed transport planning projects throughout New Zealand and Australia over the past 17 years. Dave is also actively involved in managing transportation research, having recently undertaken research projects for the New Zealand Transport Agency, Austroads, Local Authorities and Trips Database Bureau in fields as diverse as public transport planning, road safety, transportation energy and Intelligent Transport Systems.

Chris is a Transportation Engineer with eight years' experience working in a variety of roles within the transportation sector. Since graduating he has worked for several consultancies in New Zealand and Australia, local council, and the New Zealand Transport Agency. Chris has a breadth of experience within the transportation field, including transport planning, preparing business cases for transportation projects, traffic modelling, economic analysis, design of intersections, carparks and streets, assessment of pedestrian and cyclist facilities, construction management, and working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Chris is passionate about tangibly improving the lives of New Zealanders through contributing to smarter transportation decisions being made.

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