Wellington is a compact, hilly city with complex movement patterns, multiple transport modes, and intense peak-time pressure on its central corridors. Understanding how people and goods move, whether by foot, bike, bus, car, or freight, is critical to making better planning decisions.

Watch Danial Jahanshahi, Senior Transport Data Innovation Advisor at Wellington City Council, share how the city has transitioned from traditional, manual cordon counts to a smarter, continuous, multimodal data approach using VivaCity solutions, and what that shift has unlocked for transport planning, project evaluation, and long-term strategy.

Learn about:

👉  How Wellington approaches transport data collection today, and how the city's geography and modal mix make it both interesting and complex to measure

👉 How the city has managed their cordon count program, its challenges and limitations, what the data was used for, and how VivaCity has been a game changer

👉 Wellington's strategy behind rolling out VivaCity sensors across the city, and how to decide on which intersections and corridors to prioritise

👉 The before-and-after impact the VivaCity data has had on projects and interventions

👉 How VivaCity data is being used to evolve its cordon count methodology and how the wider council teams are using the data

👉 What is next for Wellington in terms of their data strategy 

Don’t miss this fascinating look at how data and innovation are shaping one of New Zealand’s most loved destinations.

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