Christchurch Active Design Symposium 2013

Christchurch Active Design Symposium 2013

The Healthy Christchurch Champions sponsored Todd Litman to present and lead this Active Design Symposium for transport planners and engineers, in conjunction with Abley Transportation Consultants.

Todd is a world-renowned expert in transportation design and is the founding director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. His special areas of interest include looking at the economic and social benefits of transportation options for the public and private sectors, with experiences and evidence of best practice examples from New Zealand and overseas.

Todd lead a panel of speakers during the morning session on various transport issues and providing examples of active and universal design concepts in use in New Zealand and overseas. Other speakers included in order:

  • Nigel Millar (Canterbury DHB Chief Medical Officer) on economic costs of inactivity in the health sector.
  • Jeanette Ward (Abley Transport) on overseas best practice
  • Michael Ferigo (Transport Planner for Christchurch City Council) about implementing the $60m cycle way network.
  • Laurence Sheriff (Environmental Challenge Limited) discussed how systems and network thinking benefits design (and vice versa); and the critical success factors to enable the consideration of accessible networks and design simultaneously.

Download a copy of Todd Litman's keynote presentation [PDF].

View footage from the Active Design Symposium

View the Accessibility video featured at the Active Design Symposium [14 minutes].

Part 1 has the first part of the keynote address from Todd Litman [17 minutes].

Part 2 is the conclusion of Todd Litman's keynote address and the first part of Nigel Millar's presentation [17 minutes].

Part 3 is the conclusion of Nigel Millar's presentation [19 minutes].

Part 4 features Jeanette Ward's presentation and the first part of Michael Ferigo's talk [16 minutes].

Part 5 features the conclusion of Michael Ferigo's talk, and the first part of Laurence Sheriff's presentation [19 minutes].

Part 6 is the conclusion of Laurence Sheriff's presentation [17 minutes].

Part 7 includes the presentation from Ben Lucas [15 minutes].