Community & Place

The Community & Place team is a passionate and talented team who focus on planning and design that supports communities and encourages active and sustainable travel. We also support delivery of other work including safe system audits and health and safety reviews, especially when they have an element of active travel or community focus.

How we work

The Community & Place team are about making our towns and cities safe, vibrant, and inclusive. We are passionate about street design that allows people of all ages and abilities to walk, cycle, access public transport, and scoot safely. Creating livable cities that reduce the need to travel and increase the opportunity for active travel choices also contributes to reducing carbon emissions.

We work with design teams, schools, councils, and government agencies, prioritizing environmental, social, and economic sustainability across our projects, helping our clients achieve project outcomes while positively impacting our communities.

Our team delivers innovative and pragmatic solutions in active travel/inclusive planning and design; consultation and engagement, travel planning and travel demand management and transport data, monitoring and evaluation.

Active Travel/Inclusive Planning & Design

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Consultation & Engagement

Transport Data, Monitoring & Evaluation

Travel Planning and Travel Demand Management

We work across a range of sectors

We work with organisations to address transport network challenges, unlock data insights, progress transport resource consents, and optimise the use of spatial technology.

Active Travel/Inclusive Planning & Design

Our team has extensive experience developing walking, pedestrian, cycling, and public transport guidance in New Zealand and Australia. Using our research and guidance expertise, we work with clients in updating local guidance and planning documents to reflect best practice.

We assist clients in updating code of practice reviews, standard detail designs, or updating cycle parking district plan requirements. We also provide industry training on good street design, pedestrian network guidance, and installation of tactile indicators to help deliver successful outcomes on the ground.

Our team has experience in developing designs that cater for people with disabilities, young and old people, catering for micro-mobility, and providing safe connections to the public transport network. We combine our experience and expertise to deliver great outcomes.

Transport Data, Monitoring & Evaluation

Understanding how people use the transport network is crucial in informing how we develop and adapt our streets and neighborhoods. Transport surveys, including pedestrian, cycle, scooter, and parking surveys, can help identify existing challenges and recommend design changes and travel solutions. Our team uses various techniques to conduct these surveys, including video, drone survey technology, and on-the-ground surveys. We also gather qualitative data through questionnaires and direct engagement to report on the impact of a project from the community perspective.

We provide before and after evaluation packages to assess the impact of projects and support the design and engagement process, demonstrating project impacts.

Travel Planning and Travel Demand Management

We work with clients to develop travel plans that encourage and support more people to walk, scoot, cycle, and take public transport. Our team of transport and behavior change experts work with councils, schools, and businesses to provide the full suite of travel planning and travel demand solutions. Our services include travel surveys, audit of policies, and facilities to understand current conditions, stakeholder engagement, developing action plans, and monitoring activities. We can support clients to increase cycle parking provision and advise on parking management/car-sharing solutions.

Using our CarbonWise tool, our clients can understand current carbon emissions and we can develop plans to meet emission reduction requirements.

We work with our clients to develop and deliver Travel Demand Management (TDM) programs that are fit for purpose, considering measures and interventions that influence travel choice, to optimize the efficiency of a network and support funding applications.

Featured Project: Supporting organisations to reduce their commuting emissions with a travel plan

TomTom Traffic Analytics

TomTom provides geolocation tech for transport analysis. Our team tailors solutions to your needs.

CarbonWise

CarbonWise offers a simple solution to measure and report carbon emissions stemming from commuting within your organisation.

Get in touch

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We look forward to talking with you.