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ITE Australia New Zealand - Student Award Announced

By Mr. Donald McKenzie P.E posted 02-15-2015 02:22 AM

  

The ITEANZ undergraduate award is made on the basis of the most outstanding piece of individual work or clearly identified individual contribution to group work on traffic or transport engineering. The award is generously supported by GHD.

ITEANZ is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2014 ITEANZ Student Award is Mr Sahan Wijayaratna from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. The presentation was made to Sahan at the ITEANZ Annual Breakfast Meeting and AGM held in Melbourne on 4 February 2015.

Sahan did his final year project on the impacts of on-street parking and access adjacent to land uses on road capacity. The study utilised field surveys to measure the time taken to complete parking and access manoeuvres and the resulting queues that occur on metropolitan roads in Sydney. Statistical analysis of these surveys was then conducted and a relationship was derived to measure the impact of these interruptions on road capacity. The results of the study clearly indicate that the reduction in capacity of the lane adjacent to a parking lane is greater when the time restriction of an on-street parking zone is short.

Congratulation Sahan.

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