Conferences

In addition to transport engineering and planning, Flow staff attend and organise conferences and training sessions to enhance their skills.  Part of this involves preparing presentations and papers on a variety of subjects, aiming to spread and influence transport engineering and planning knowledge.

2009 3rd Annual Travel Demand Management Conference


The 3rd Annual TDM Conference was held on 10 and 11 March 2009, at Mercure Hotel, Auckland.  The themes of the conference were:
  • Strategic planning – why its important
  • Social marketing and behaviour change
  • What TDM initiatives have worked (or not worked) in Aotearoa/New Zealand
  • TDM initiatives for rural Aotearoa/New Zealand
  • Why and how were these initiatives applied
  • What could be done to improve results
  • How could other TDM initiatives be implemented in Aotearoa/New Zealand
  • TDM measurement, monitoring, enforcement

More information is available here.


2008 2nd Annual Travel Demand Management Conference


Flow organised and sponsored the 2nd Annual Travel Demand Management Conference, held at the Rendezvous Hotel in Auckland on the 11th of March 2008.  The focus of the day was to discuss the various successes of voluntary versus compulsory travel management plans and also to discuss the realities of TDM in practice.

Papers from this conference can be requested by emailing here.  For a list of papers and other information on the conference, its webpage can be found here.


Flow Conference Papers


In addition to Flow-run conferences, Flow staff prepare papers for national and international transport engineering and planning conferences.  An example of this the paper on Transport Assessment guidelines by Ian Clark, in association with Maree Faid of ARTA, for the AITMP Conference 2007.

"This paper examines the planning and transport situation in Auckland, summarises the contents of the ARTA ITA guidelines, outlines the availability of traffic or transport guidelines through Australia and identifies common ground and inconsistencies across the various regions."

Links to the full paper and to other papers presented by Flow staff are available here.