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Crash Trend Analysis

DaVinci Research is undertaking crash trend analysis for DSi crashes in New Zealand. Our cutting-edge trend forecasting model provides unparalleled insights into the underlying drivers for DSi-type crashes. While many road safety policies have focused on the same issues for the past two decades with no discernable effect, we are uncovering the underlying causes of the crash trend, and using our model we can evaluate the effectiveness of existing and future policies. Join us on this journey towards a safer future on the roads. View Details

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Resource Consent Hearings

Our simple goal is to demystify transport and traffic-related societal issues.

If you struggle to obtain resource consent due to bureaucratic red tape, we can help you overcome officials’ biases using a sound scientific examination of the facts and present compelling arguments supporting your resource consent.

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Innovative Solutions for Safer Roads

We have also developed a new methodology that uses the traditional methods employed by engineers but incorporates driver behaviour and psychology with Monte Carlo methods.

The resulting output provides clients with solid science-based evidence of the relative risks for each of the proposed solutions to select the optimal one. This method also has been used to counter any subjectiveness by those opposing the project proposals.

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Design and Planning of Infrastructure Projects

Transport and urban planning go hand-in-hand. We have developed integrated solutions for town centres where active modes predominate people’s movement.

Often, an urban design solution can cause unintended consequences, where the risk of injury is not well understood. Our machine vision analysis to produce visual saliency comparisons shows how these designs can mask, or camouflage vulnerable road users.

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Developer Traffic Impact Reports

For those developments requiring resource consent, our early engagement with the client development team will save time and money by minimising design iterations to optimise the layout.

Being part of the team from the outset will highlight the constraints posed by traffic, the location of the vehicle crossing, and the physical constraints that the particular site presents.

We are experienced in solving constrained sites, optimising parking layouts, and on-site manoeuvring using AutoTurn software to analyse the swept paths of design vehicles.

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Digital Billboards Evaluation

Dr Urie Bezuidenhout (PhD) specialises in evaluating sites where Digital Billboards are either proposed or require evaluation as part of the post-installation monitoring conditions.

He undertook a state-of-the-art literature review (2019, 2021) of the research into driver behaviour and the potential for distraction. He has appeared numerous times as an expert witness in consent hearings, drawing on his extensive consultancy experience and his academic career over two decades. He is a Professional Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland, lecturing on Transport Safety, Geometric Design, and Traffic Modelling, Dr Bezuidenhout is active in researching driver behaviour and accident analysis

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Analysis and Master Planning of Parking Areas

We have over 20 years of experience working with organisations such as Auckland Council and the Ministry of Education in surveying, analysing and developing master plans for designing and operating their car park facilities at recreational parks or schools.

Using graphical insights, we can communicate where the inefficiencies and risk areas are and then provide practical solutions.

We now utilise video-based analysis to speed up data collection, analysing parking area use, and evaluating pinch-points where the risk of collision between users is high.

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