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Contact Shane to talk about appraisal, assessment and evaluation at the strategic, program and project levels in road safety. Shane has access to a range of Abley and external tools and methods, both applied and academic, that can be used/developed to improve road safety outcomes. He also regularly develops new road safety tools for clients.
Shane Turner
Technical Director, Road Safety
PHD BE (Hons), CMEngNZ, CPEng, IntPE (NZ)
Shane helps clients in New Zealand, Australia, USA and Asia in developing and evaluating road safety programs.
Shane is passionate about reducing road trauma. He applies best practice methods and tools from New Zealand, Australia and the USA to target and address trauma crash risk.
About Shane
Shane has a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Canterbury. His transportation thesis focused on road safety, and more specifically crash prediction modelling.
He has over 30 years’ experience working in the consulting industry in New Zealand and Australia. Shane joined Abley in early 2019. At Abley he works in New Zealand’s preeminent road safety team and a diverse technology team, working across digital engineering, geospatial analysis and software development.
Shane is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury where he teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels in road safety. Shane has also undertaken capacity building training in Fiji, Indonesian and Brunei. He is also an experienced researcher having completed over 20 projects for the NZ Transport Agency and Austroads and having written over 70 conference and journal papers.
He is active internationally through the USA Transport Research Board. He has also delivered presentations at universities and conferences across the USA and Australia. Through these forums he is exposed to best practice in road safety globally and he uses this experience and his international contacts to bring best practice to his consulting work.
Shane is motivated by the safe system approach, especially in terms of improving safety for vulnerable road users (VRU – pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists). He is of the view that moving toward zero crashes for VRUs requires a combination of infrastructure improvements, speed management, vehicle technology and changing driver behaviour.