Winners of the 2015 Awards
Supreme Award
Winner: Interpret Geospatial Solutions, Technical Excellence
This submission details the development of a geospatial road safety speed modelling and curve risk assessment methodology (the ‘methodology’) and web viewer output (“SignatureNET”) that was developed as part of a NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) Signature Project for the Eastern Bay of Plenty (EBoP) in 2014. The project combines a number of existing technologies, processes and geospatial tools to develop a unique road safety ‘product’ that is now being used by the NZTA, ACC, NZ Police and local road controlling authorities.
Following the success of the EBoP project, the methodology is now being rolled out for a range of road safety applications in New Zealand, including the identification of high risk curves on rural road networks, as training data for a regional road safety workshop, and in support of the ‘safer speeds’ state highway speed limit review. The high technical standard of the work has been praised by all project partners, and was recently awarded the supreme New Zealand road safety prize – the IPENZ Transportation Group “3M Traffic Safety Innovation Award”. Other key successes of the project is it’s potential to reduce fatal and serious road injuries, and how it supports an integrated, inter-agency approach to road safety.
Awards for Organisations
Environment & Sustainability
Winner: Department of Conservation
Title: Battle for our Birds
Innovation & Commercialisation
Winner: Eagle Technology Group
Title: Remote Seismic Survey - A Spatial Approach
People & Community
Winner: Scouts New Zealand
Title: Putting Scouts on the Map
Spatial Enablement
Winner: Network Delivery Alliance
Title: Enabling an Integrated System
Technical Excellence
Winner: Interpret Geospatial Solutions
Title: Vehicle speed and curve risk modelling for road safety
Awards for Individuals
Professional of the Year
Winner: Matti Seikkula, e-Spatial
Title: Matti Seikkula - Growing the spatial pie
Young Professional of the Year
Winner: Natalie Scott, Interpret Geospatial Solutions
Title: Natalie Scott - An Exceptional Professional
Education & Professional Development
Winner: Mairead de Roiste, Victoria University of Wellington
Title: Innovative teacher passionate about building geospatial capability
Postgraduate Student of the Year
Winner: Richard Law, Victoria University of Wellington
Organisation: MetOcean Solutions
Title: Modelling public transport accessibility with RTI
Undergraduate Student of the Year
Winner: Hamish Kingsbury, University of Canterbury
Title: Incorporating Road Safety into a Vehicle Routing Network
