Traffic Design Group
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 like URS), they have offices in Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch and Hawke's Bay[2] and are nationally recognised in their field.[3]
Scope and projects
The company has been active in the New Zealand transport sector for 33 years (as of 2010), and has provided consulting services on a number of large projects, most recently on 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.[4][5] TDG has also planned the pedestrian elements of the Westpac Stadium in Wellington and undertaken the traffic design for the SkyCity Auckland casino.[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,[6] and research reports for government entities like Transfund New Zealand, such as 'The Ins and Outs of Roundabouts', a safety audit of roundabout research.[7] 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,[8] 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.[9]
The company also advises on construction and event traffic management, such as for the APEC meeting in Auckland in 1999.[10]
References
- ^ a b 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)
- ^ "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.