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'''Traffic Design Group''' (TDG) is a [[consultancy]] in [[New Zealand]]. The largest<ref name="FIT">[http://www.futureintech.org.nz/AprilNewsletter.pdf Enews April 2004] (Futureintech, Government-funded initiative of [[IPENZ]])</ref> specialist [[traffic engineering]] and [[Transportation planning|transport planning]] consultancy of the country (as opposed to multi-disciplinary consultancies), they have offices in [[Auckland]], [[Tauranga]], [[Wellington]], [[Christchurch]] and [[Hawke's Bay]]<ref name="TDG">[http://www.tdg.co.nz Where transportation and people meet] (Traffic Design Group website)</ref> and are nationally recognised in their field.<ref>[http://archived.ccc.govt.nz/council/agendas/1998/March/CentralCity.asp Council Agenda, Thursday 5 March 1998] ([[Christchurch]] City Council)</ref> The company has been active in the New Zealand transport sector for 33 years (as of 2010).<ref name="JOINT">{{cite web | url = http://www.mfe.govt.nz/rma/call-in-turitea/expert-witnesses-reports/third-joint-statement-of-traffic-eperts.pdf| title = Third Joint Statement Of Traffic Experts, In The Matter Of: Applications by Mighty River Power Limited to Palmerston North City Council, Horizons Regional Council and Tararua District Council for Resource Consents for the Turitea Wind Farm Proposal| author = | date = 2009 | accessdate = 27 January 2011}}</ref> |
'''Traffic Design Group''' (TDG) is a [[consultancy]] in [[New Zealand]]. The largest<ref name="FIT">[http://www.futureintech.org.nz/AprilNewsletter.pdf Enews April 2004] (Futureintech, Government-funded initiative of [[IPENZ]])</ref> specialist [[traffic engineering]] and [[Transportation planning|transport planning]] consultancy of the country (as opposed to multi-disciplinary consultancies), they have offices in [[Auckland]], [[Tauranga]], [[Wellington]], [[Christchurch]] and [[Hawke's Bay]]<ref name="TDG">[http://www.tdg.co.nz Where transportation and people meet] (Traffic Design Group website)</ref> and are nationally recognised in their field.<ref>[http://archived.ccc.govt.nz/council/agendas/1998/March/CentralCity.asp Council Agenda, Thursday 5 March 1998] ([[Christchurch]] City Council)</ref> |
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The company has been active in the New Zealand transport sector for 33 years (as of 2010).<ref name="JOINT">{{cite web | url = http://www.mfe.govt.nz/rma/call-in-turitea/expert-witnesses-reports/third-joint-statement-of-traffic-eperts.pdf| title = Third Joint Statement Of Traffic Experts, In The Matter Of: Applications by Mighty River Power Limited to Palmerston North City Council, Horizons Regional Council and Tararua District Council for Resource Consents for the Turitea Wind Farm Proposal| author = | date = 2009 | accessdate = 27 January 2011}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:04, 27 January 2011
Traffic Design Group (TDG) is a consultancy in New Zealand. The largest[1] specialist traffic engineering and transport planning consultancy of the country (as opposed to multi-disciplinary consultancies), they have offices in Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch and Hawke's Bay[2] and are nationally recognised in their field.[3]
The company has been active in the New Zealand transport sector for 33 years (as of 2010).[4]
Scope and projects
TDG has provided consulting services on number of large projects, including on such projects as new wind farms,[4] event locations like SkyCity Auckland casino[1] or Stadium New Zealand (where they assessed the traffic and parking effects of providing a major new 60,000 seat stadium on the Auckland waterfront, and which they supported as a viable location in terms of traffic).[5][6] TDG has also planned the pedestrian elements of the Westpac Stadium in Wellington.[1]
Other projects the company has worked on include traffic modelling such as for Transit New Zealand on the State Highway 20 Extension in southern Auckland,[7] and research reports for government entities like Transfund New Zealand, such as 'The Ins and Outs of Roundabouts', a safety audit of roundabout research.[8] Another field the company is very active in is traffic survey work, having, for example long produced the traffic volume reports of the New Zealand State Highway network for Transit New Zealand (now NZTA),[9] and having been contracted by Christchurch City Council to gather interview traffic data from more than 25,000 drivers in the Christchurch area, to inform future traffic planning [models] in the area after traffic surveys had not been updated for 17 years.[10]
The company also advises on construction and event traffic management, such as for the APEC meeting in Auckland in 1999.[11]
References
- ^ a b c Enews April 2004 (Futureintech, Government-funded initiative of IPENZ)
- ^ Where transportation and people meet (Traffic Design Group website)
- ^ Council Agenda, Thursday 5 March 1998 (Christchurch City Council)
- ^ a b "Third Joint Statement Of Traffic Experts, In The Matter Of: Applications by Mighty River Power Limited to Palmerston North City Council, Horizons Regional Council and Tararua District Council for Resource Consents for the Turitea Wind Farm Proposal" (PDF). 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ "Stadium decision: Noise 'not a problem' at waterfront". The New Zealand Herald. 22 November 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ Stadium decision: Government defends law changes (New Zealand Herald newspaper)
- ^ SH20 Hillsborough to Richardson Road - Assessment of Effects on the Environment (Auckland City Council)
- ^ Ins and Outs of Roundabouts (Land Transport New Zealand)
- ^ State Highway Traffic Volumes 2001-2005 (Transit New Zealand)
- ^ "Drive-through surveys help future planning". Press Release: Transit New Zealand, Via Scoop.co.nz. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ "Warning! Major blockage ahead". The New Zealand Herald. 8 September 1999. Retrieved 27 January 2011.