Dr Ranjan Pant has a PhD degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany. Dr Pant is currently based in NZTA’s Auckland office and work for System Optimisation Team. He has more than 18-years transport and traffic planning experience particularly in the planning, designing and implementations of urban and metropolitan transport system and infrastructure engineering projects. He also has research background, especially in the areas like development of future reliable town and traffic planning concepts; concept and implementation of sustainable transport development, traffic generation and flow analysis; public transport improvement; environmental impact analysis of transport development.

I have been working in Highways for 28 years. I ran my own traffic signal section working for a Unitary Local Authority in the UK, where I operated, designed, managed and optimised traffic control for a decade. Safety was an essential component and I still have personal legal liability for my work. I have been working in New Zealand for the NZ Transport Agency for nearly twelve years. During this time, I have delivered millions of dollars of ITS onto the Auckland Motorway Network and have advised many of the major projects around the country regarding their ITS requirements (as ITS is an operational tool). I have updated numerous ITS Standards into draft form which are with others to develop. More recently, Connected Journeys Solutions has taken over much of the responsibility for ITS, so I am now settling into a safety-biased role, with particular emphasis on Active Modes and the Mobility Impaired. Bus shoulder running has been deployed on the motorway network for many years and there is even a section in MOTSAM which covers the topic (see if you can spot the error in the guidance?). I work with Ranjan in the System Performance Team and together we have developed Ranjan’s idea of improving journey time reliability by allowing buses to run through interchanges rather than merge into and diverge out of the left lane of the motorway at every ramp.

Terry has 19 years’ experience and is a recognised leader in the transportation planning, modelling and economic evaluation field within New Zealand. Terry has been responsible for a number of traffic and transportation projects for a variety of clients covering local authorities, central government agencies and private concerns. Through these roles, he has a very balanced understanding of differing stakeholder expectations. Terry has been responsible for leading transport assessments and for carrying out economic evaluations of large transport business cases.

Andrew has worked as a manager, traffic engineer and transport planner, including for city and regional councils in New Zealand (14 years), Toronto (nine years) and Brisbane (two years), plus as a consultant in New Zealand for 14 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Canterbury and a master’s degree in traffic engineering and transportation planning from the University of Toronto. He was recognised by Engineering New Zealand for services to sustainable transport, becoming a Fellow of ENZ in 2007. He currently works for Greater Wellington Regional Council as a senior policy advisor in public transport.

Reza is an environmental and land use planner. He worked as a planner and policy advisor in public and private sectors outside New Zealand for over 15 years. He moved to New Zealand in 2012, and joined the Greater Wellington Regional Council a year later. Since then he has been working with the regional council as a Public Transport Policy Advisor. His focus for the last few years has been on public transport fares policy and transition planning. He studied agriculture and environmental planning.

Daniel is an experienced transport planner and engineer at Auckland Transport, having worked for 20 years on a wide range of public transport and network planning projects.

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