LEARNZ: Share the road - design thinking

The future of travel, the design of roads, how to make journeys safer and the speeds we drive at are all topics supported by a virtual field trip in Term 3.

The LEARNZ team of professional educators will take an in-depth look at the design thinking that underpins our transport system.

To prepare for this field trip, LEARNZ content will support inquiry into:

• New Zealand roads
• people as road users
• roads and roadside design
• vehicles on our roads
• the speeds we drive at
• road safety
• a holistic safe system approach to designing roads
• the effects of technology
• the Waikato Expressway
• the future of travel on our roads

During this field trip you will:

• follow Shelley's tweets on twitter
• unpack typical journeys - getting to school, commuting to work, going to the beach
• visit Putaruru College and get the back story to their award-winning road safety video
• inspect the Waikato Expressway, designed with a safe system approach
• inspect an existing road that has been upgraded to make it safer and find out how local citizens influenced the solutions
• explore Hamilton's safe speed zones demonstration project
• put questions to experts about traffic psychology
• use the driving simulator at Waikato University
• find out how research informs roading design
• meet a transport engineer
• explore the implications of future vehicle technology

After the field trip, challenge yourself to:

• look at your local roads with a safe system view
• keep informed about self-driving vehicles
• investigate study options and careers in the transport industry

For further information and to register: http://rata.learnz.org.nz/summary.php?vft=sharetheroad183

This is the second of LEARNZ’s transport-related field trips. You might also be interested in LEARNZ: Land, sky and space - accurate satellite positioning takes off!