axel
Professional Information
- Role
- Director - Christchurch, Senior Traffic Engineer and Transport Planner
- Work Phone
- (03) 343 8221
- Fax
- (03) 363 7603
- Mobile Phone
- 027 2929 810
- Jajah Name
- Axel-Wilke
- Skype Name
- axel.wilke
- Office Locations
- Christchurch
Personal Information
- First name
- Axel
- Last Name
- Wilke
Biography
Axel holds an ME (Civil) from Canterbury University and has been active as a traffic engineer and transport planner in New Zealand since 1998. He specialises in sustainable transportation, urban traffic engineering, traffic signals, road safety and intersection modelling. Axel was on the national management committee of the IPENZ Transportation Group from 2003 to 2006.
Axel is an accredited trainer for the SIDRA INTERSECTION software. He also teaches the Fundamentals of Planning and Design for Cycling workshop, which has been taught to over 700 individuals over recent years. For this work, he won the ‘CAN Cycle-Friendly Award’ for Best Cycling Promotion in 2005. Axel is a guest lecturer at Canterbury University.
He is the author of the Land Transport NZ traffic signal audit handbook “Stops and Goes of Traffic Signals” (2006 revised edition) and was a peer reviewer of the “NZ Supplement to Austroads Guide to Traffic Engineering Practice Part 14 Bicycles” (2004). He has peer reviewed numerous research projects, e.g. ‘Predicting Accident Rates for Cyclists and Pedestrians’ (Beca) and ‘Energy Risk to Activity Systems as a Function of Urban Form’ (University of Canterbury).
Axel has revised the cycling related content of MOTSAM on behalf of the NZ Transport Agency, and was the project director for the Te Okuroa Drive project in Tauranga.
Axel has designed many signalised intersections, urban arterial traffic management schemes, road safety schemes and gets called upon as a safety auditor. He has been involved in the development or review of cycling strategies for several councils, has been the project director for the scheme design of bus priority measures for a Christchurch bus corridor, and is the project director for the traffic engineering changes in central Christchurch for the proposed transport interchange.
Axel is a regular presenter at conferences and workshops, with over 50 papers and remits given.
Related content
- Publication
- Pedestrian LOS at traffic signals (Transportation Conference)
- The Forgotten Transport Modes
- 1999 Traffic Management Workshop review in terms of cycling
- Travel Time Savings or The Way We Fund Transportation Projects
- Cyclists at Wide Intersections: All-Red Time Extension on Demand
- Innovative diagonal cycle crossing solution for busy intersection
- MOTSAM Amendments
- Staged Pedestrian Crossings
- Pedestrian LOS at traffic signals (SNUG)
- Cycle Lane Performance: Road Safety Effects
- Designing Signalised Intersections for Cyclists
- Pedestrian Treatments at Signalised Intersections
- Cyclists at Roundabouts
- Planning & Engineering for Cyclists – Development of a Technical Training Course
- Cyclists at Wide Intersections – Single Detector Loop
- Evaluation of the Paramics Microsimulation Model: Central City Area and Urban Arterial Case Studies
- Traffic Control Devices – Rule Revision
- Cycle Safety at Roundabouts
- Planning and Engineering for Cyclists
- How Safe are Roundabouts for Cyclists?
- PEM Amendments: Simplified Procedures Cycle Facilities
- Professional Training Course: Designing with Cyclists in Mind
- Designing Signalised Intersections for Cyclists
- The Value of Technical Peer Reviews
- Diagonal cycle crossing for signalised intersection
- Fundamentals Course: Development and Delivery of a Technical Training Course
- NZ Supplement to Austroads Part 14: Bicycles
- Impressions from Europe
- Fundamentals of Planning and Design for Cycling: Course Notes
- Cycle Facilities at Traffic Signals
- Stops and Goes of Traffic Signals - SNUG
- Estimating a Cycling AADT
- Stops and Goes of Traffic Signals - TMW
- Accommodating Cyclists at Signalised Intersections
- Writing Submissions: How to be effective?
- Planning and Design for Cycling – Developing Best Practice in New Zealand
- Cycle Paths at Signalised Cross Intersections
- Audit of Signalised Intersections – Recommendations for Practitioners
- Planning for Certainty through Sustainable Transportation
- Building Our Way Out of Congestion
- Making a congested offset signalised T intersection work
- Paramics modelling of congested offset T intersection
- ARTA Cycle Route Network Analysis Tool
- Velocity Conference 2007 - lessons for NZ
- Signalised Roundabout Design for Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety
- Staged Pedestrian Crosswalks at Signalised Cross Intersections
- Right Turn Protection: Christchurch Policy Development
- CAN Cycle Friendly Awards 2009
- Broken Yellow Lines in Kerbside Cycle Lanes
- Harper Ave crossing
- Putting the “e” into Advocate: Online Content Management Systems
- Introducing Bus Priority in Christchurch
- Gemini Cycle Friendly Awards 2008
- Staged Pedestrian Crossings
- SPARC Cycle Friendly Awards 2007
- Cycle counting programme in Hamilton
- Development of an automatic cycle counting programme for Hamilton City
- Green Lights for Bikes presentation
- An Illustrated Lexicon of Cycle Facilities