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Transportation 2024 is Aotearoa New Zealand’s premier forum for the transportation planning, safety, engineering, and design community. The conference is intended to support problem-solving and thought leadership amongst peers within the transportation sector and related professions to stimulate debate and action to improve our transport outcomes.

CONFERENCE KAUPAPA THEME

Tūpuna Pono – Being Good Ancestors
A transport network for future generations

Aotearoa New Zealand will have a revised strategic transportation direction set by the new coalition government, to take effect for the next three-year period beginning July 2024. Our 2024 Transportation Group Conference is ideally timed to allow professionals and advocates to discuss how we respond to the key challenges of our time and move the transport network sustainably forward in this new environment.

Both the natural world and population growth are creating challenges to provide resilient access for all. Growth areas have been focused away from existing urban centers, leading to increasing traffic delays, and storm events are disrupting the lives of many, with funding to address these community frustrations remaining limited.

Whilst we face these short-term challenges, we also need to think about how we can facilitate transport accessibility and reliability in the future as well. The 2024 conference theme is centered around Tūpuna Pono – being a good ancestor.  This strategy centers on considering what is important to the future generations of Te Tauihu and Aotearoa New Zealand – balance and regeneration, leaving a legacy that we can be proud of and contributing to a higher purpose beyond ourselves. This is focused on several intergenerational outcomes that have been used to focus the three conference streams, with topics unique to each stream.

1. Papa Whenua, Pūtea & Te Taiao
   Infrastructure, Economy and the Natural World

   • Resilience and working with the natural world rather than against it

   • Reducing the carbon footprint of our transport network

   • Mode shift to active modes and public transport

   • Sustainable transport and economic outcomes

2. Tangata, Te Rākau Taumata & Te Tauihutanga
   People, Place and Identity

   • Integrating transport and land use

   • Urban design

   • Accessibility

   • Community engagement and connections

   • Equity

   • People focussed outcomes

   • Road safety and health

3. Mātauranga & Rangatiratanga
   Knowledge and Leadership

   • Research

   • Story telling

   • Accountability and taking action

   • Growing the diversity of our profession

   • Leadership

   • Training

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