Last week, several of us at Abley were lucky enough to attend the Australasian Road Safety Conference in Adelaide. Adelaide is a beautiful city, being surrounded by parks and with trams bustling through the main city streets. Directly north of the Adelaide Conference Centre is the River Torrens, the riverbanks of which provide excellent views of the city skyline and Adelaide Oval. The city has an easily navigable grid layout, very similar to Christchurch (apparently deigned by the same city planner!). We were lucky enough to experience some of the excellent South Australian wines and cuisine on offer through the various social and networking activities held during the conference.
Our People & Places team hit the streets of Christchurch recently, on a technical tour led by Jeanette Ward, the team’s technical director. The tour looked at the elements that contribute to great places for people in the central city, the following pictures provide a snippet of what we saw.
Earlier this year I was privileged to be invited to take a lecture at Auckland University for the students doing Undergraduate study in Geographic Information Science. Following on from this, on Tuesday 17th September I lectured 60+ students who were enrolled in this course. My role was to talk to them about what its like to work in the spatial industry, what the future looks like and my personal experiences working for a professional services consultancy.
With a theme of ‘leading the way – towards zero’, the Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC) 2019 will showcase the best researchers, practitioners, policy makers and industry experts in the road safety industry from across Australasia. Abley has a strong presence at this year’s conference with the following presentations taking place:
On 12th September, Abley were proud to be announced winners of the "Sustainable Journeys Award" at the Australasia Fleet Safety Awards 2019, for our travel planning programme called "TravelWhiz".
As a Transport Planner, it was interesting to observe the chaos first-hand last weekend at Mount Ruapehu.
This year seven members of our Spatial and Technology team attended the New Zealand Esri User Conference (NZEUC) 2019, held at Auckland’s Sky City.
We extend a warm welcome to Benjamin Walch, who has recently joined our "People and Places" team, and is based in our Auckland office.
Fiona has recently joined Abley as a Principal Project Manager to lead the Community and Commerce Team who focus on the delivery of spatial data analysis and conversion, ArcGIS application configuration and GIS infrastructure management. Fiona is an experienced project manager having qualified and spent eight years in the Health IT industry spanning many successful health information projects. Using software to improve lives has been the main driver of Fiona’s career so far. We welcome Fiona to Abley! She will be based in our Auckland office.
The team at Abley are thrilled to win a Silver ACENZ INNOVATE project award for the Safer Journey’s Risk Assessment Tool (Mega Maps). Winners of the 2019 INNOVATE NZ Awards of Excellence were announced at a Gala Dinner held at the Christchurch Town Hall on Friday 9th August.
