Transportation Group NZ

03/03/2025

This will be of interest to TG members, as part of celebrating International Women's Day the NZ Urban Design Forum is hosting a free webinar.

To mark International Women’s Day 2025, the Urban Design Forum is proud to offer a lunch-time opportunity on Thursday 6 March 12:30pm - 1:30pm to collectively

03/03/2025

‘Transport Successes’ & Canterbury Branch AGM
The Transportation Group is pleased to present this upcoming national event with speakers Glenn Lyons (CIHT president, Professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol, Mott MacDonald) and Tim Cheeseborough (Senior Transport Planner, Christchurch City Council).

Who: TG Members Only
When: Tuesday 11 March
Time: 5:00 pm Arrival | 5:30 pm Presentations start | 6:30 pm Q&A | 7:00 pm Canterbury Branch AGM (in person; members welcome)
Where: Christchurch and Online

Glenn will speak about successful applications of adopting a ‘Decide and Provide’ transport planning approach and Triple Access Planning.
Tim will speak to the success of Christchurch’s post-earthquake ‘An Accessible City – Christchurch Central City Recovery Plan’ transport planning, noteworthy transport outcomes, and the lessons from the journey – which was not straightforward!
This event will aim to sharing inspiring examples of long-term transport planning approaches and remind us of the successes we’ve had so far.

This is a hybrid event – held in person in Christchurch and also online. See website for more details: https://www.transportationgroup.nz/event/transport-successes-canterbury-branch-agm

10/08/2022

Canterbury branch - Annual Quiz Night
The theme for this year's annual Quiz Night is "Humans, Nature, and Human nature". We welcome all Transportation Group members and colleagues, in teams of up to six or arrive as you are and we'll help you find a team. A variety of food will be served so most dietary needs should be met but, please let us know if you have particular needs. We look forward to seeing you there!
When: Thursday 25 August, 5.30– 8.30PM
Where: 12 Bar, 342 Saint Asaph Street, Christchurch
Register: please email Aini Fayaz Mansoor

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02/08/2021

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - DUE TO ALERT LEVEL ESCALATION
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Canterbury Members, please SAVE THE DATE
for the ANNUAL TRANSPORTATION GROUP QUIZ NIGHT!

When: Wednesday 18 August, 5:30pm

Where: Space Academy, 371 St Asaph Street

What: Theme is THE WORLD

Who: We welcome all TG Members and colleagues, in teams of up to six or arrive as you are and we’ll help you find a team.

Please RSVP your team with likely numbers, organisation, and any particular dietary requirements to Grace Ryan ([email protected]).

19/05/2021

Thanks to all who attended, presented at, and supported the 2021 Transportation Group conference and a special thank you to our 2021 sponsors and exhibitors Stantec 3M Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Aurecon Beam Doppelmayr Garaventa Engineering New Zealand Matrix Traffic and Transport and Vanguard Group NZ
Stay tuned for official 2021 conference photos soon

12/05/2021

The Canterbury Branch Transportation Group invites all members to come to a social event at the Pegasus Arms. Get acquainted with your fellow TG members over some drinks and snacks, provided by the Transportation Group!

We will kick off with a brief industry update from Jeanine Foster, the Waka Kotahi Local Road Programme Lead for the Road to Zero Speed and Infrastructure Programme.

Jeanine leads the national Road to Zero local road partnership programme; co-designing, evidencing and investing in safe system road infrastructure and speed management. She is immersed in multi-agency government response strategy to reduce the unacceptable rate of death and serious injuries on our roads. She'll outline the challenges and milestones of this important work, to get your conversations started, with plenty of time for networking. (More about Jeanine here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanine-foster/)

Thursday 20th May, 5 - 8pm, for a 5:30pm presentation start
Pegasus Arms Function Room (upstairs)
14 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch Central City

Please RSVP here: https://www.engineeringnz.org/courses-events/event/road-to-zero-speed-infrastructure-programme-update/

The Canterbury Branch Transportation Group invites all members to come to a social event at the Pegasus Arms. Get acquainted with your fellow TG members over some drinks and snacks, provided by the Transportation Group!

07/05/2021

We are so excited to see you all at the Transportation Group Conference on Monday morning! For all those attending, we have an informal networking function at Coops Corner Pub (pictured below) from 5:30pm on Sunday. This is a self-funded event however there will be snacks provided. There is still a bit of time to sign up, just visit https://www.tgconference.co.nz/registration-2021 for details!

20/04/2021

We're looking forward to welcoming you in 3 weeks’ time to Transportation 2021.

A conference highlight will undoubtedly be the interactive workshops on Wednesday morning, don’t miss the conversation!

For more on our workshops visit: https://www.tgconference.co.nz/workshops
Register today at https://www.tgconference.co.nz/registration-2021

12/04/2021

We're on the countdown to Transportation Group 2021! Check out the fabulous keynote speakers we'll be hearing from in exactly four weeks’ time! Register today at https://www.tgconference.co.nz/registration-2021

29/03/2021

Make sure you are registered for this Wednesday's webinar: Assessing the environmental impacts of a development

California has recently enacted legislation to shift the metric of measurement of environmental impacts from developments. This panel event will examine how general traffic level of service (LOS) and vehicle-kilometres travelled (VKT) can be used as metrics of measurement of environmental impacts from New Zealand land and transport developments. We aim to foster a discussion on the benefits and disbenefits of using VKT as an alternative to LOS in order for the assessment outcomes to better align with high-level strategic goals of the Ministry of Transport, Waka Kotahi, Councils and Council Controlled Organisations.

When: Wednesday 31 March, 5PM - 6PM
Where:
Auckland - MRCagney, Level 4, 12 O'Connell Street
Wellington - WSP, Level 10, Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street
Christchurch - GHD, Level 3, 138 Victoria Street
Online Via Adobe Connect

Join the Transportation Group for a panel discussion on assessing the environmental impacts of a development, presented by Lewis Thorwaldson, Mark Apeldoorn and more.

26/03/2021

A reminder that early bird registration closes next Friday 2nd April. With an outstanding line up of keynote speakers, the fantastic Greg Ellis as MC, so many awesome presentations, there's no shortage of reasons to attend Transportation Group conference 2021.
See you there!
https://www.tgconference.co.nz/registration-2021

11/03/2021

Transportation 2021 Conference programme and registration is now available! Visit: https://www.tgconference.co.nz/ to register and view the exciting programme!

Registration options include both in-person or virtual attendance and early bird pricing is available up to 2nd April 2021!