Blair has accumulated wide-ranging experience over the last 25 years from client and consultancy perspectives whilst being passionate about ITS/AV/EV/MaaS technologies. His current role is Principle for Transport Network Optimisation at Aurecon. Blair works with a large team of engineers and analysts in diverse fields such as future technologies, traffic control centre operations, traffic signal design and coordination, ramp metering, incident management, driver information systems, ITS asset management along with road, bridge and tunnel operations. Blair has attended many ITS world congresses, with the latest being in Melbourne 2016, Montreal in 2017 and Copenhagen in 2018 and Singapore in 2019. As a Graduate of Aurecon’s Design Academy, Blair bridges the gap between End User desires, Transport Planning and Future Technology Operations of the transport network. Blair is also proud to be part of the ITS NZ Board. He is keen to help build decarbonised future transport network investigating Autonomous Vehicles, Micro Mobility and the Post Covid-19 changes to society.

Ian has been involved in advancing climate responses within business and capital markets since 2007, and now leads the New Zealand sustainability and climate-change response for international design, engineering and advisory firm Aurecon. He also works with Aurecon teams focussed on accelerating the transition to clean energy, electrification of transport and decarbonisation of industry.

Gemma has a key interest in ensuring communities have access to transport choice, with a passion for good streetscape and public realm design to support placemaking. She specialises in planning and designing for active modes and public transport movements, and has a key interest in safe streets and places. Her design experience includes all forms of streetscape and intersection design including roundabouts and traffic signals for intersection upgrades and safety improvements. She had a leading role in delivering An Accessible projects, Public Transport priority projects and initiating the major cycleway network in Christchurch. She is a qualified Road Safety Auditor and a Site Traffic Management Supervisor (STMS). She is active in the Engineering NZ Transportation Group, a member of the Urban Design Forum and an Associate member of New Zealand Planning Institute.

Glen has worked in the NZ transport sector for 25 years, as a transportation engineer and researcher. He specialises in road safety and sustainable transport, with particular interest and expertise in walking & cycling and speed/traffic management. Glen has been investigating the effects of traffic speeds for about a decade, including research on street treatments and speed limits, and has travelled extensively to study overseas practices in this area. At ViaStrada, he works for a wide variety of national and local clients providing expert advice on traffic and transportation matters, and helping to develop best-practice transport facilities and guidelines. Glen joined ViaStrada in 2016, having spent the previous 12 years with the University of Canterbury, and prior to that with Opus International Consultants. He has a PhD in Transportation Engineering, as well as Masters and Bachelors degrees in civil engineering and computer science.

Presented by: Dr Glen Koorey Glen has worked in the NZ transport sector for 25 years, as a transportation engineer and researcher. He specialises in road safety and sustainable transport, with particular interest and expertise in walking & cycling and speed/traffic management. Glen has been investigating the effects of traffic speeds for about a decade, including research on street treatments and speed limits, and has travelled extensively to study overseas practices in this area. At ViaStrada, he works for a wide variety of national and local clients providing expert advice on traffic and transportation matters, and helping to develop best-practice transport facilities and guidelines. Glen joined ViaStrada in 2016, having spent the previous 12 years with the University of Canterbury, and prior to that with Opus International Consultants. He has a PhD in Transportation Engineering, as well as Masters and Bachelors degrees in civil engineering and computer science. The paper was written by: Axel Downard-Wilke is a Director of ViaStrada Ltd., a transport planning and engineering consultancy based in Christchurch. Axel holds an ME (Civil) from Canterbury University, and has been active as a traffic engineer and transport planner in New Zealand since 1998. Through commercial courses and University lectures, Axel has taught planning and design for cycling and walking, intersection design, economic assessment and intersection modelling. He has been involved in the development or review of cycling strategies and facilities for many TLAs. Axel was the technical advisor to the Ministry of Economic Development for the $50m NZ Cycle Trail project (2009-12), including the development of the NZ Cycle Trail Design Guide (ongoing). He was a member of the Transport Agency-commissioned Cycling Safety Panel who released the report “Safer Journeys for People who Cycle” in December 2014. He was the ViaStrada team leader for updating cycling planning and design guidance for the Transport Agency in support of the Urban Cycleways Programme; the resulting Cycling Network Guidance (CNG) was published in July 2016. Axel has peer reviewed many research projects relevant to cycle facilities, carried out independent research and been involved in trials for cycle facilities: • Reviewer of and contributor to the traffic signal design guideline Providing for Cyclists at Traffic Signals (2010) • Lead researcher for NZTA trial: Cycle lane buffer marking effectiveness (2014) • Presentation to the Signals NZ User Group: Separated Bicycle Facilities: legal issues (2014; won best technical paper) • Team leader for Austroads research project: Bicycle Lanes at Roundabouts (2014) • Team leader for ATOC project: Left Turn arrow operation: An investigation into available options • Team leader for AT project: Shared space marking trial

Sarah is a Principal Transport Planner at Tauranga City Council in the Project Outcomes Team. She previously worked as a Transport Team Leader at Harrison Grierson where she led the Tauranga Street Design Guide project, and is now assisting with adoption of the Guide and Tool within Council. Sarah's role covers a wide range of transportation projects, but her passion lies in the sustainable transport space, and the interaction between transport and communities.

Neelima has 15 years’ experience in transportation planning and traffic engineering in the US. She moved to New Zealand 6 months ago and is currently leading multiple projects with Auckland Transport and Panuku. Her focus areas are multi-modal corridor studies, bus priority studies, safety analysis, work-zone traffic management, signal optimisation, and aviation (landside) planning. She is a recognized subject matter expert in transport modelling using VISSIM and Synchro. She has provided traffic and transportation consulting services to a wide variety of clients throughout the US including local governments, state governments and central government agencies, and is currently working on several Auckland Transport projects. She is quite passionate about her work and treat it as a brand that clients expect and derive value from. Over the past 15 years, she has established a reputation for delivering practical solutions for some of the most complex multi-modal transportation engineering projects around the US. Neelima held leadership positions in multiple international engineering organisations such as Institute of Transportation Engineers and Women’s Transportation Seminar. She has demonstrated success in strategic business development, practice building, long-term client partnerships and cross-functional stakeholder management. She is currently leading the traffic engineering team in the Auckland Region of Stantec.

Brigitte works with clients to integrate sustainability and climate resilience across complex built environment and management systems. She has worked closely a range of local authorities, government agencies and business’ around New Zealand. This has included climate risk and adaptation, decarbonisation roadmaps and GHG measurement, science based target setting and corporate sustainability strategy. This experience has given her an understanding of the complexities around delivering climate resilience projects in different environments.

Bob Hu is the team lead for the transport advisory team in Jacobs Wellington. Bob has over 14 years experience in Transport Modelling and Multimodal transportation.

Tyler Ross is a principal transportation planner in AECOM wellington. Tyler has over 16 years experience in transportation planning, and he's expertise lies in all levels of transport business case development and funding applications.

Darek is a highly skilled manager and a people leader with 14 years’ experience in various roles in the transportation industry. Darek is leading Auckland Transport’s transition to zero emission bus fleet known as Auckland’s Low Emission Bus Roadmap. He leads the collaboration with private bus operators to facilitate greater understanding of the benefits of moving to zero emission fleet and promotes greater uptake of electric buses while assessing the benefits of using hydrogen. He also plays a key role in the development of supply chain to support the transition from diesel to electric and hydrogen fuel cell buses, their management, operations and charging infrastructure. He is leading the Low Emission Bus Working Group in NZ tasked with overcoming challenges and removing barriers to earlier adoption of zero emission buses in Auckland and New Zealand.

As the Digital Lead for Innovation in New Zealand, Luke Kreig helps to re-imagine what is possible for communities by building on GHD's extensive expertise in the space of water, energy, environment, resources, transportation and the built environment. In addition to building up GHD's Innovation as a service offering, Luke also delivers Smart Seeds, an innovation programme powered by GHD that aims at empowering emerging leaders to co-create lasting solutions for our regions.

Takeshi is Transport planner with background in social science and urban planning with interest in demographic spatial data application to transport and urban planning issues and opportunities. He is particularly interested in interaction and relationship between Land use planning (Place) and transport system (Movement), and a firm believer of mitigating movement issues and opportunities in relation to land use system. Prior to relocating to NZ, he worked on high profile strategic planning projects in London including Heathrow expansion, HS2 business case, and a number of strategic planning projects at Transport for London. In ANZ, he worked on various strategic planning and transport analytic projects including Supporting Growth, Road Network Planning (SYD), Accessibility analysis, and LUTI model assessment.

Nalisha is a Principal Transport Planner, currently managing the team in charge of business cases for the Additional Waitemata Harbour Connections, Northwestern Rapid Transit Corridor and other major projects.

Aaron is a Senior Advisor within GHD’s Digital Strategy and Transformation Practice in the Asia Pacific region, with a focus on urban transport, planning and digital advisory. His professional experience has involved working closely with clients, including transport authorities to deliver strategic transport planning and advisory services, on how initiatives, projects and programmes can help deliver better network wide transport and urban outcomes. Aaron enjoys working, engaging and co-creating together with stakeholders and clients to adopt an customer led approach to tackling and solving problems, and this approach has helped immensely in planning and working on projects in response to the changing customer needs, especially within a digitally enabled world.

Rebecca joined Abley as a graduate transportation engineer at the start of 2018, after completing a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury. Since joining Abley, Rebecca has gained broad experience in traffic engineering, planning and designing for pedestrians, strategy development and safety analysis. Rebecca co-authored the Waka Kotahi Research Report 667, entitled 'Developing methodologies for improving customer levels of service for walking'. She has a keen interest in enabling climate friendly transport.

Benjamin is a Senior Transportation Planner and Sustainability Practitioner at Abley. He provides analysis for transport strategies, international literature reviews, and research pieces, with a focus on walking, cycling, and micro-mobility (e.g. e-scooters). He has also successfully helped clients obtain government funding through his business case writing skills. His passion for the environment has seen him develop expertise in measuring and forecasting transportation carbon emissions. Benjamin has Master’s degrees in Political Science from Sciences Po Rennes (France) and in Regional & Urban Planning from the London School of Economics (UK). This education gave him an ability to grasp how cities and regions function on a social, economic, and political level. He was a transport Planner in the UK working for a coalition of five west London Boroughs. There, he helped companies and developers promote alternatives to car use (active travel, public transport). He also delivered cycle parking infrastructure projects on residential roads and managed a behaviour change cycling programme and on a university campus. Benjamin brings a unique combination of public sector and start-up experience to the Abley team. He founded an early stage parking start-up in London and joined Lime’s operations in Melbourne and Auckland, handling both deployment/retrieval and repairs of the e-scooters. What Benjamin loves is a beautiful streetscape where people walk, cycle, and scoot safely around each other, and stop to enjoy the atmosphere. He believes in a future with climate-resilient communities and without the need for fossil fuels.

Karen Witten is a geographer and psychologist with research interests in neighbourhood design and how housing, transport, amenity access and social environments influence the everyday mobility, health and wellbeing of residents. She is a Professor of Public Health at the SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, Massey University, Auckland.

Gang is a Chartered Professional Engineer and International Professional Engineer. He is working as Principal Asset Engineer with Auckland Transport. Gang has a PhD in structural engineering. Experienced from the successful track record of civil infrastructure projects, he has been involved in all the stages of infrastructures from planning, design, construction to the lifetime maintenance. He is using his structural knowledge, project management, asset management and team leadership skills to support the healthy operation of structural assets in Auckland transportation networks.

Matiul is a Civil Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in Infrastructure Asset Management within the transport infrastructure environment across New Zealand and United Kingdom. As Asset Manager for Structures and Public Transport at Auckland Transport, he leaders the asset management and engineering of an asset portfolio that includes roading structures and public transport assets. His previous experiences across management consultancy and public sector saw him lead business units, advise asset owners on the management of infrastructure assets; design and deliver of projects to time, quality and budget; and resolve engineering problems by thinking laterally, conceptually and creatively.