E3: Designing for Active & Inclusive Travel
Tracks
Track 3
| Wednesday, March 11, 2026 |
| 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM |
Details
Creating environments that deliver real mode shift
Speaker
Mr Michael Jongeneel
Technical Director
Flow Transportation Specialists
Manurewa active modes project - putting our best foot forward for walking in Manurewa
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Michael is a Technical Director at Flow Transportation Specialists, and walks a fine line between Transport Engineer and Transport Planner. His particular area of expertise is in walking, cycling and micromobility, and he endeavours to create healthier, more active and better-connected communities through all his projects.
His background in transport engineering, multi-modal transport modelling, and active modes planning and design gives him a unique set of skills, covering both the technical and the human drivers and levers that affect mode choice in our cities.
Louise Baker
Technical Director
Resolve Group
Co presenting: Manurewa active modes project - putting our best foot forward for walking in Manurewa
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Louise Baker is a transport planner at Resolve Group with over 20 years' experience in transport planning across New Zealand and the UK. She brings a collaborative, systems-based approach to designing resilient, people-centred transport solutions. In 2024, Louise received the Biennial Transport Planner Award from the Transport Planning Society NZ.
Louise is passionate about helping cities to find their place in Nature. Last year, she led a project team that designed a Nature-based Solutions trial on Auckland’s motorway network, a project funded through NZTA's Crown Resilience Programme.
Ms Ella Davis
Active Modes Infrastructure & Planning Manager
Auckland Transport
Co presenting: Manurewa active modes project - putting our best foot forward for walking in Manurewa
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Ella is a Principal Transport Planner in Auckland Transport’s Active Modes Infrastructure and Planning team. She was the active modes planning lead and co-author of AT's Cycle & Micromobility Programme Business Case, leading the development and application of a prioritisation framework to inform AT's 10-year cycling investment programme.
With a passion for sustainable transport and urban development and a diverse background in economics, infrastructure advisory and transport planning, Ella is interested in driving transformational change and contributing to better outcomes for communities and the planet. Outside of work, she enjoys being out in nature with her daughter and husband (often exploring by bike!), playing indoor netball and a weekly pub quiz with friends.
Mr Cameron Inder
Traffic & Transportation Engineering Manager
Bloxam Burnett And Olliver Ltd
Cambridge Pathway
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Cameron has extensive experience in transportation planning, modelling and design of urban and rural transport corridors, public transport facilities and priority measures, walking and cycling design, urban intersection design, Safe System audits and presenting expert witness evidence on transport matters. Cameron is an innovative thinker with strong design skills from conceptual to detailed design, and impressive experience on projects with major transportation implications.
Amir Kayal
Principal Urban Design Specialist Capital Projects Accessibility Group Chair
Auckland Transport
Dr Elliot Fishman
Director
Institute for Sensible Transport
Increasing active transport in NZ – what are the most effective interventions?
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
Dr Elliot Fishman has 20 years’ experience as a sustainable mobility specialist. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety on the topic of shared micromobility. He is ranked by Stanford University in the top 2% of scientists globally for his contributions to transport. His work has been published in the top-ranking industry journals including the British Medical Journal and the Journal of Transport Geography. He has advised the Australian Prime Minister’s Office on sustainable mobility as well as the New York City Department of Transport and Transport for London regarding bike share. Since 2005 has been the Director at the Institute for Sensible Transport.
Steven Jiang
Transportation Engineer
Stantec
Leveraging pedestrian-focused best practice guidance in a private context
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Steven is a Transportation Engineer in Stantec’s Christchurch team and has solid foundational knowledge of transportation planning (including economic analysis), transportation engineering, road safety, and transport design. The breadth of his interests allows Steven to be versatile and apply problem-solving techniques on a wide variety of transport projects.
His experience in all facets of transportation is expansive. It ranges across the following fields: economic evaluations, road safety engineering, traffic engineering, transportation design, cost estimations, and data analysis. Since the start of his career, Steven has developed a reputation for being a quick learner and has rapidly grown as a transportation engineer.
Mr Sam Wrightson
Project Analyst & Coordinator
Mackie Research
Bike theft in Auckland: an inhibitor of cycling trips
12:30 PM - 12:45 PMBiography
Sam is a Project Analyst and Coordinator at Mackie Research. His background is in public health, particularly focused on the relationship between urban environments and health. During his time at Mackie Research, Sam has contributed to a wide range of projects primarily focused on road safety and sustainable transport.
Dr Hamish Mackie
Director
Mackie Research
Co-presenting: Bike theft in Auckland: an inhibitor of cycling trips
12:30 PM - 12:45 PMBiography
Hamish is Co-Director of Mackie Research and has 24 years of research and consultancy experience in various areas of human factors and ergonomics, with the last 18 years spent mostly in the transport sector.
As a certified Human Factors professional, all of Hamish's work has the underlying theme of more human focussed systems and he has a particular focus on road safety and sustainable transport.
Questions and answers
E3: Designing for Active & Inclusive Travel Q&A
12:45 PM - 1:00 PMBiography