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Abley Transportation Consultants is a specialised consultancy providing high level transportation engineering services. The company has a core staff of transportation professionals supported by ancillary staff. We pride ourselves on our independence, strategic thinking and high quality client deliverables.
Steve Abley - Managing Director
Paul Durdin - Principal Transportation Engineer
Andy Milne - Principal Transportation Engineer
Michael Chou - Transportation Engineer
Paul Barr - Senior GIS Consultant
Cynthia Edmonds - Transportation Engineer
Jayde Drumm - Senior Graphic Consultant
Denise Knowles - Project Administrator
Brian Finlay - Finance Manager
Managing Director
BE(Hons) NZCE MIPENZ CPEng MICE CEng(UK) IntPE(NZ) MInstD
Steve is a specialist transportation and traffic engineer with extensive consultancy and contracting experience. He has the ability to combine theoretical knowledge and practical expertise to complex traffic and transportation issues, and has had a wide range of experience working with both private companies and public authorities alike.
| Direct: +64(0)3 367 9003 Mobile: 021 556 864 Email: steve@abley.com |
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Principal Transportation Engineer
BE(Hons) MIPENZ CPEng
Paul is a specialist traffic and transportation engineer. He has effective management and communication skills proven through numerous good client relationships, project management and workload management for teams of other engineers. He is experienced and apt at understanding local authority and regional council transportation aspirations and understands strategic visions, policy and rules based outcomes.
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Direct: +64(0)3 367 9004 |

Principal Transportation Engineer
BEng(Hons) MSc(Transportation Planning and Management) GIPENZ
Andy is a specialist traffic and transportation engineer. With over 13 years of transport engineering Andy has competent project management skills assisted by strong technical abilities. He has the ability to take a strategic perspective whilst also applying great attention to detail that is appropriate to individual situations. Having worked on a variety of projects for and on behalf of private consultants and Local Planning in both New Zealand and the UK Andy has valuable work experience.
| Direct: +64(0)3 367 9007 Mobile: 021 864 461 Email: andy@abley.com |
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Transportation Engineer
BE(Hons) ME(Transportation) GIPENZ
Michael recently graduated with a ME in Transportation from the University of Canterbury. Since joining Abley Transportation Consultants in May 2007, he has worked with both private clients and local authorities and provided high quality transport assessments. Due to his strong theoretical background, he has the ability to solve complex transportation problems, and has recently had the results of his masters project involving international crash experience comparisons using accident predication models published in the Transportation Research Board Journal.
| Direct: +64(0)3 367 9005 Email: michael@abley.com |
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Senior GIS Consultant
B.Sc(Hons)(Geography)
Paul specialises in the use of GIS to deliver simple solutions to complex problems. Examples include the use of GIS to analyse transportation networks to determine the shortest route between two locations or determining the spatial variability in access to services across a city. His role also includes spatial and tabular data analysis, cartographic presentation, graphical manipulation and website development. His specalised skill sets include cartography, database design, GPS field surveying and scripting in various computer languages.
| Direct: +64(0)3 367 9008 Email: paulb@abley.com |
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Transportation Engineer
BSc(Civil) GIPENZ EIT(New York)
Cynthia has experience in safety assessments and micro simulation modelling using VISSIM and PARAMICS. She is especially experienced with computer modelling programs to assist with complex, unique and congested highway systems as well as local street networks for existing/future operations, capacity analysis, traffic impact studies and alternative assessments.
| Direct: +64(0)3 377 4703 ext 712 Email: cynthia@abley.com |
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Senior Graphic Consultant
Jayde is a graphic designer specialising in print and web formats. Her experience with corporate and public clients, including working for major strategy and design consultants, means transportation concepts are attractive and well presented. Jayde's ability to photograph, represent and weave complex transportation into different medium formats makes her skills immensely valuable when conveying ideas visually.
Email: jayde@abley.com

Project Administrator
Direct: +64(0)3 367 9002
Mobile: 021 864 772
Email: denise@abley.com

Finance Manager
Brian has over 25 years experience in accounting and adminstration. He has a wealth of knowledge and a high level of understanding in how to effectively manage accounts. He specialises in accounting for time-based consultancy projects.
Direct: +64(0)3 367 9006
Email: brian@abley.com
