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Programme and Presenters

Prior to the seminar participants will be provided with abstracts of the main pre­sentations and also a list of propositions and questions circulated for discussion on the day.

Click here to download the programme.

To download a pdf version of all the presentations, please click on the presenter name below.

Presentation 1    Michelle Lewis

Presentation 2    Steve Abley and Andy Milne

Presentation 3    Steve Abley

Presentation 3b  Steve Abley

Presentation 4    Ian Clark

Presentation 5    Peter McCombs

Presentation 6    Phil Jones

Presentation 7    Kenneth Hollyoak

Presentation 8    Ryan Rolston

Presentation 9    Terry Church

­Presenters

Phil Jones– Director, BSc CEng MICE MIHT FIHIE (Hons)

Phil has 25 years’ experience in the planning and design of development infrastructure, with particular expertise in traffic analysis, transport planning and highway design. Phil specialises in achieving synergy between highway and urban design, with the aim of creating places and spaces that meet aesthetic, social and functional aims. Phil advises a large number of private and public sector clients on transportation and infrastructure matters. Phil is an acknowledged expert on Home Zones, and was part of the team that produced Manual for Streets, the DfT’s recent technical advice on the design of urban streets. He has carried out research into residential parking for DCLG and is leading further research in this area for several local authorities. Phil is also a member of the CABE Space Enabling Panel and the Institution of Highways and Transportation’s Urban Design Group.

Ken Hollyoak

Ken has 28 years of experience in the highways / transportation field.  He is a chartered professional engineer and is a Fellow of the Institution of Highways & Transportation.  He worked as an Associate Director at Pinnacle whom he joined in 2002 and an Associate at Parkman Ltd for whom he worked from 1989 to 2001.  Prior to this, he worked for Gloucestershire County Council.

His work has historically involved work on developer funded infrastructure projects often as a participant in multi-disciplinary teams.  This involved undertaking preliminary /detailed highway design and preparing transport / traffic impact assessments primarily for developers.  He has extensive knowledge of the UK TRICS traffic generation database and historically made use of the West Midlands “Generate” database.
He moved full time to Australia in 2006 since when he has been the Traffic Manager for the $175M RTA Alliance “Inner West Busway” scheme in Sydney and was also traffic manager on the $750M Royal North Shore Hospital Project in Sydney.
In 2009, Ken undertook a study for the RTA investigating trip generation characteristics of two land uses – Retirement Homes and Bulky Goods/Hardware Stores.   It is this study on which his talk will be based.

David Gamble

David is a Fellow of IPENZ, Life Member of ITE (USA), Associate Fellow of NZIM, past local Chair of the Southern Branch of the Transportation Group of IPENZ for over ten years and the National Committee of the Transportation Group of IPENZ for six years and is Chairman of the Board of Trips Database Bureau.

David has been involved in TRAFINZ since 1972, a Past Vice President and a Life Member since 1997. David held a range of senior technical and management positions with the Dunedin City Council over nearly four decades and has managed TrafficPlan Ltd for twelve years.

His Dunedin based consultancy provides professional services in innovative traffic engineering, road safety & auditing and transportation planning projects, including peer reviews, for local and central government, as well as private and public organisations.

In 2005 David was in Europe as part of a four-person validation team from New Zealand examining road safety culture, with official meetings in the Netherlands, England and Sweden.

Malcolm Douglass (MSc (Birm), BE (Civil), Dip TP, FIPENZ, FNZPI, SOLGM).

Malcolm Douglass is Director of Douglass Consulting Services Ltd. Christchurch, he has been professionally and actively associated with transportation planning, traffic engineering and town planning, for over a long career in local government as both an officer and a consultant. He was the author of both the Trips and Parking Research Reports 1972 ( NRB /RRU Research Bulletin No 15), and also the review report in 2001 (Transfund Report No 209). His work has covered a wide rang of Regional and District Planning and also extensive comprehensive Transportation Planning. Since the TDB was formed in 2002 he has been its contract Administrator.

Steve Abley BE(Hons) NZCE MIPENZ CPEng MICE CEng(UK) IntPE(NZ) MInstD

Steve is the Managing Director of Abley Transportation Consultants. 

He has been involved in the engineering community for the last 20 years and is an IPENZ National Board Member.  Steve presents at national and international conferences and lectures at the University of Canterbury. The firm undertakes private and public commissions and Steve

has a particular interest in furthering the knowledge of the profession through applied research, including research work through the Trips Database Bureau.  He has co-authored the national guidance on best practice regarding Integrated Transportation Assessments and has undertaken numerous studies on quantifying travel behaviour. Steve is the TDB Data Advisory Group (DAG) member for Christchurch.

Ian Clark (BA, MSc Lond, DIC)

Ian is a Director of Flow Transportation Specialists Limited. He has over eighteen years experience in transport planning and modelling, in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Over the past eight yearshis work in New Zealand has involved the project management of many different types of traffic and transportation projects, predominantly for local authorities and central government agencies. Ian’s experience includes strategic transportation planning, transport and traffic modelling using a variety of modelling suites, traffic operational assessments, bus, cycle and pedestrian projects. Ian is the TDB Data Advisory Group (DAG) member for Auckland.

Peter McCombs

Peter McCombs is a Director and Chairman of Traffic Design Group Ltd which is New Zealand’s largest specialist traffic and transport planning consultancy.  He has a substantial background of experience leading and working with multidisciplinary teams in all aspects of traffic engineering and transport planning ranging across public agencies, retail and commercial developments, integrated transport studies, and regional and district centre planning.  Peter has provided expert testimony before many public and judicial hearings, and has been appointed to provide expert technical advice in particular major enquiries.

Stuart Woods (BE, ME, MIPENZ)

Stuart is a Group Manager at MWH (NZ) Ltd.  Previously he was the Principal Transport Planner / Team Leader to the Christchurch City Council. He is a qualified professional engineer having graduated from Canterbury University in the mid 1980s. Since then, he has worked in a wide variety of transport planning and engineering roles. He has been involved in traffic modelling, public transport planning, central city concept plans and developing the Regional Land Transport Strategy. Since July he has held the post of contract Executive Officer for TDB.