Training and capability

Application of the Pedestrian Network Guidance course

These one-day courses focus on planning and design for pedestrians. Course material is based on the Pedestrian Network Guidance and includes the practical application of real-world examples.

Email multimodal@nzta.govt.nz to register your interest and preferred location.

To be advised

Urban Street Design Workshops

This workshop focuses on the design of good streets and is run over two days. It is an interactive session with groups assigned a street design project that they progress over the two days.

To be advised

This webinar takes a deep dive into the relevant national design guidance for public transport, cycling and walking particularly near bus stops. We look at applied examples to workshop, and set you up to successfully apply best practice design guidance on the ground. 

This webinar is designed to inform the industry on best practice for managing and maintaining urban streets and path facilities. It introduces different processes to assess the state of transport networks and determine low-cost measures for improving them.

One Network Framework and the Urban Street Guide webinar(external link) (video)

This webinar is designed to help the industry put the ONF and the Urban Street Guide into action!
Some of the topics covered include:

• Movement and place
• Understanding the ONF network function and the urban street guide street form
• ONF and urban street categories
• Putting the ONF and the Urban Street Guide into action

Multi-modal intersections webinar(external link) (video)

This webinar is designed to inform the industry on the latest New Zealand guidance on intersection planning and design particularly for people walking, cycling and using public transport.

Bus stop planning and design webinar(external link) (video)

This webinar is designed to inform the industry on the latest New Zealand guidance on the planning and design of bus stops.

December 2022

Pedestrian planning and design webinar(external link)
(video)

This webinar is designed to introduce the transport industry on the latest guidance in New Zealand on planning for pedestrians.

Introduction to multi-modal guidance training(external link) (video)

This webinar introduces the suite of multi-modal guidance available in New Zealand including any recent updates, and how they fit with other guides and frameworks such as the One Network Framework. The multi-modal guidance include: 

• Aotearoa Urban Street Planning and Design Guide 
• Pedestrian Network Guidance (PNG) 
• Public Transport Design Guidance (PTDG) 
• Cycling Network Guidance (CNG) 

Pedestrian planning and design update

This webinar provided an update on the development of the PNG, and training on the following: 

• Disability sector collaboration for inclusive design 
• Safe obvious step free: principles for inclusive places

October 2020 

Tactile indicator installation webinar(external link) (video)

This webinar provides recommended practice to designers and contractors carrying out the installation of tactile pavers. It features insights from a blind person in terms of how important the tactile pavers are.

October 2020 

Urban mobility and liveable cities - webinar series

NZTA partnered with LGNZ to deliver Urban Mobility and Liveable Cities – a webinar course for elected officials in urban areas. The course was designed to introduce some of the fundamental principles of urban mobility for safer, cleaner and healthier towns and cities. Sessions include guest speakers sharing their perspectives on leading change in this area.

August 2020 

How to talk about urban mobility and transport shift

This webinar provided a theoretically driven, evidence-led framework so we can understand how to: improve people’s understanding, based on best evidence, of why a shift in transport modalities towards active and public transport is needed, help people designing and leading the shift to have better conversations with the public and motivate people to act in support of these shifts.

April 2020 

Safe walking and cycling treatments for intersections and crossings

This webinar introduced some of the current state-of-the-art thinking around these safety measures for active modes. 

Lessons learned through recent case studies of intersection/crossing treatments around New Zealand were also presented.

December 2019 

Monitoring walking and cycling

This webinar introduced tools and techniques for monitoring walking and cycling that are rapidly evolving. Many councils still rely on basic counting technologies or manual methods, but these methods can have high error rates or collection durations that are insufficient for year-on-year trend analysis.

August 2019