Start date:
| 15 Sep 2025, 8.30AM |
duration: |
32 hrs 30 mins |
Venue: |
Rydges Latimer Christchurch |
Address: |
30 Latimer Street Christchurch |
Cost: |
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2025-09-15 08:30:00
2025-09-16 17:00:00
Pacific/Auckland
2025 NZMUGS Conference
Rydges Latimer Christchurch
Engineering New Zealand
hello@engineeringnz.org
To cover what NZMUGS perceives as a growing area of transport planning and modelling interest in New Zealand and Australia, the conference will cover the following theme:
Should we model what decision makers/people think they want, or what we think they need?
- Should modellers respond to decision makers desires to ensure engagement and solutions that conform with political realities?
- Or should we stick with our expertise and aim for what we can demonstrate is appropriate, though maybe unpopular?
- Productivity is high on the agenda, is it our role to ensure that factors other than travel times (safety, environment, connectivity etc) are assessed? And how do we account for them?
- How much room is there for innovative/bolder solutions that decision makers and the public may not have envisaged? And how do we create and promote these opportunities.
Early bird registration will close 29th August 2025. If you have any questions, please contact zoe.chen@beca.com
The 18th annual NZMUGS Conference will be held on the 15th and 16th September 2025 at Rydges Latimer in Christchurch. The NZMUGS Conference provides a great opportunity for customers, researchers, engineers, modellers and other practitioners in the transport planning and modelling fraternity to discuss current developments across a wide range of projects and interests.
To cover what NZMUGS perceives as a growing area of transport planning and modelling interest in New Zealand and Australia, the conference will cover the following theme:
Should we model what decision makers/people think they want, or what we think they need?
- Should modellers respond to decision makers desires to ensure engagement and solutions that conform with political realities?
- Or should we stick with our expertise and aim for what we can demonstrate is appropriate, though maybe unpopular?
- Productivity is high on the agenda, is it our role to ensure that factors other than travel times (safety, environment, connectivity etc) are assessed? And how do we account for them?
- How much room is there for innovative/bolder solutions that decision makers and the public may not have envisaged? And how do we create and promote these opportunities.
Early bird registration will close 29th August 2025. If you have any questions, please contact zoe.chen@beca.com
