Greater Auckland Launch Party
We would like to invite all friends, family and supporters of the TransportBlog to celebrate the launch of our new organisation Greater Auckland. This is happening Sunday, June 21st at 3pm. There will be nibbles and mulled wine provided followed by a few speeches.…
19 Comments Graduate Opportunity
This is a guest post from behalf of the T² engineers which we’re posting as we know there are a lot of readers who may be interested in working in the industry.…
Drinking the Kool-Aid: IPENZ event tonight
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Upcoming seminar: New ideas in economic evaluation
Next Tuesday, the Government Economics Network and Auckland Council are hosting a seminar entitled “Economic evaluation in Auckland – new ideas and challenges“. It’s on a topic that I personally find very interesting – some readers may also be keen:
Estimating the economic impact of transport interventions using the Gross Value Added approach.…
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone. From everyone hear at TransportBlog I hope you have a great day with friends and family.
I’d also like to say thanks to all the men and women who help to keep our PT system working, especially those bus drivers working today.…
Give Away!
Film distributors Madman Entertainment have kindly sent us four DVDs of the BBC documentary on the London Underground: The Underground: Narrated by Julian Barrett of Mighty Boosh fame, each of the six episodes is an incredibly in-depth and unblinking look at what it takes to keep Four Million people moving under the streets of London everyday.…
Next Generation Transportation Course (On-line)
Here’s an on-line certificate program that may interest some readers. It has been put together by Gordon Price (Pricetags) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. The program is multi-disciplinary and taught by a diverse range of practicing professionals.
Here’s a synoposis of the course:
SFU’s new online Certificate in Next-Generation Transportation is designed to help mid-career professionals use next-generation transportation strategies to advance livable and sustainable cities of the future.…
Website Update
We’re looking at the performance issues that have been affecting the website lately.
We are trying a few different things like adjusting the way caching (WP Super Cache) is done, and we have removed the sidebar from posts once you click on them from the main page.…
IPENZ Transport Debate – The car is so last century
If you’re interested in transport and are looking for something to do tomorrow night then perhaps the annual IPENZ transport debate is just what you’re looking for. I understand that Patrick is also the MC for this and I’m sure he will have lots to say about this this topic along with those debating.…
Watch JSK’s Auckland Conversations talk
If you missed Janette Sadik-Khan’s awesome talk on Monday to an enthralled audience at the Aotea Centre, you can watch it online here. At 90 minutes for the whole thing it’s quite long, but definitely worth it as it was a great presentation.…
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