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 600 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 recently 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 30 papers and remits given.

History

Member for

3 years 26 weeks