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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

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Stream 2
Track 3
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Aquamarine 3, First floor

Speaker

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Ms Ellie Craft
Sustainable Mobility Engineer
MRCagney

Low traffic neighbourhoods: a practical interactive workshop

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Abstract

Biography

Ellie is a transport engineer with a focus on street design that supports safe, attractive, and accessible walking and cycling environments, to provide people with travel choices. Ellie has experience in safety audits, spatial and data analytics, street corridor and intersection redesigns for active modes, low-traffic neighbourhood development, station access, active mode research, network planning and traffic assessments. Her most recent projects have included access for Everyone, Henderson town centre Indicative Busines Case and medium-term station access interventions for the Airport to Botany rapid transit project.
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Lukas Adam
Senior Urban Mobility Specialist
MRCagney

Low traffic neighbourhoods: a practical interactive workshop

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Abstract

Biography

Lukas is an urban planner and designer with extensive experience in active transportation, masterplanning, streetscape design and project management. His recent work has focused on cycle network design, cycleway and streetscape design, walking and cycling policy and active modes access to public transport facilities. Key projects include network design for central Auckland's cycling network, cycle network mitigation for City Rail Link construction disruption, Access for Everyone city centre traffic circulation system and station access planning for the Airport to Botany Mass Rapid Transit. Lukas gained valuable experience through work and postgraduate study overseas. He completed a postgraduate research project into cycling policy for dispersed, car-oriented environments in collaboration with policy experts in the Netherlands while working in the United Kingdom. While working in Australia, his work addressed urban design and multi-modal transport integration for large scale public transport, road infrastructure developments and streetscape upgrades. Lukas has developed a broad-based skillset including critical and strategic thinking; spatial analysis, planning and design; quantitative and qualitative research methods, contract administration and project financial control; and graphic and verbal communication. He is an enthusiastic analyst of the interaction between human mobility and urban form and a dedicated proponent of sustainable modes of transportation.

Session chair

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Ellie Craft
Sustainable Mobility Engineer
MRCagney

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