Transport Modelling

Wynyard Quarter Development: Planning Phase

This Wynyard Quarter site and planned development is unique in Auckland, in terms of its size, its proximity to the city centre and its prime waterfront location. It is surrounded by water on three sides, with a major arterial route and the final leg of the Northern Busway on the fourth side. These situational advantages make the area very attractive for intensive use but also present very significant challenges in terms of accessibility.

Auckland Light Rail (ALR) was to provide a modern rapid transit system for Auckland, between Auckland city centre and the Airport. Additional routes were planned to the Auckland’s Northwest and to the North Shore to create an integrated, high speed, high capacity reliable network, serving a large proportion of Auckland’s existing and future population.

Let’s Get Wellington Moving

Flow is proud of its involvement in the consultant team between early 2020 and late 2023, with involvement specifically in terms of the strategic and detailed transport modelling and the assessment of a range of options against the project’s transport objectives, focussing in particular on the contribution of the options to transport mode change.

The Northern Corridor Improvements Project
Flow was responsible for the transport planning and transport modelling of the project from the assessment of a range of options in 2013, through to the provision of expert evidence to the public hearings in 2017, and we provided ongoing advice to Waka Kotahi during the construction stage.

Flow was recently responsible for developing a Speed Management Plan for Auckland Transport, in 2023. We undertook considerable research on the effects of lower speed limits, looking at international examples of changing limits from 50 to 30 km/h (or from 30 to 20 mph).

The City Rail Link is a proposed 3.4 km underground passenger railway, running between the Britomart Station and the North Auckland railway lines.

Flow’s transport assessments of the City Rail Link considered both the long term (beneficial) effects of the project, and the short term (adverse) effects during construction. The long term effects included identifying the ability to dedicate more space within the Auckland City centre streets for buses, walking and cycling, for people to travel to/from and within the city centre by public transport.

Flow and Jacobs are currently developing the detailed business case for Carrington Road Improvements. Flow has supported the development of all aspects of the business case process, focusing on transport planning, modelling, and economic assessments.

Flow has been fronting the transport modelling and economic evaluation to support Waka Kotahi’s SH16 Brigham Creek to Waimauku project.

Wynyard Quarter Development

Auckland Light Rail

Let’s Get Wellington Moving

Northern Corridor Improvements Project

Auckland Speed Management Plan

City Rail Link (CRL)

Carrington Road Improvements Detailed Business Case

SH16 Brigham Creek to Waimauku safety improvements