Mid-block Design - Module 3

Following on from an award winning Fundamentals course on Planning and Design for Cycling, an Advanced course was developed in 2009 in conjunction with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to meet the needs of the NZ transportation industry. Module 3 mid-block design. Lectures are complemented with hands-on exercises.

Axel enjoying teaching

Tim Hughes (Senior Engineer, NZTA) says about the Fundamentals course: "When I travel around New Zealand, I can see the basic skills taught in this training course being applied to an increasing number of projects". The Advanced course modules now intend to lift the industry's performance to the next level of professional competence.

ViaStrada directors Axel Wilke and Andrew Macbeth teach most of the courses. Course content is continuously revised by ViaStrada to keep abreast of the evolving field of cycle planning and design.

Please see our training pages for upcoming professional development opportunities to either attend a Fundamentals or an Advanced course.

To enable practitioners to study the material, even if they haven't attended the course yet, the PowerPoint presentations are made available on our training course material page.

In addition, we hand out the following materials at the courses:

• a copy of the NZ Supplement to Austroads Part 14,
• the recently updated cycling-related MOTSAM pages, and
• a chart outlining how the content of Austroads Part 14 (1999) has been distributed across the various new Austroads Guides.