Tickets to the SNUG September 2024 Annual Workshop in Christchurch are now on sale.
Just as a recap, the SNUG workshop will be held on September 5th & 6th, with a tech tour and trade show on the afternoon of Wednesday 4th September.
The venue this year is the Great Hall at The Arts Centre - more details here
Tickets are available now, with earlybird tickets are available until 14 August. Get in early and don't pay more than you have to! Even better, get in and purchase your tickets this financial year!!
Like last year, we also have the option of virtual attendance by Microsoft Teams. You need to acquire a free ticket through the online ticketing system. So please ensure you follow the booking link, and choose the free Virtual Delegate option.
Your ticket will contain the required information to join the workshop remotely.
To see more details, and to book your tickets, please click here. Since 2019, we have used Trybooking for our ticketing, which allows us to do multiple bookings at the same time, along with other ticketing options.
The SNUG workshop is a great opportunity to share what you've been doing with the signals community. If you have something interesting to present, please contact Steve Wright or Alex Lumsdon to show us all what you've been up to.
The annual SNUG workshop is a great chance to get together with other people who work in the signals industry. This includes contractors, consultants, designers, legislators, and RCA staff.
Credit Card payment is the only method of payment for the SNUG workshop. Please have your credit card handy when you book.
From SNUG Chair Jeff Greenough, and the rest of the SNUG committee, we look forward to seeing you in Christchurch in September.
Presentations Available Online
The March annual SNUG workshop and conference in Queenstown was a great success, with presentations from key industry personnel prompting great discussions and workshop outcomes. The industry-wide representation of delegates from traffic signal engineers, local authorities, traffic systems specialists, contractors, consultants and other practitioners allowed for some great networking and knowledge sharing.
Queenstown provided a picturesque location, with the venue and SNUG dinner being exceptional.
The presentations are now available on line from the 'Presentations' tab, for you to review for those extra details you want. Please share the link with any colleagues that you think would be interested in any of the content covered.
The next annual SNUG workshop will be held in Auckland, aiming for a date in March 2022. Prepare your manager now as you evaluate your training and conference opportunities for the next year.
From the chair Jeff Greenough, and the rest of the SNUG committee, we look forward to seeing you at one of our next events.
Tickets to the SNUG March 2021 Annual Workshop in Queenstown are now on sale.
Earlybird tickets are available until 28 February. Get in early and don't pay more than you have to!
To see more details, and to book your tickets, please click here. This year we are using Trybooking for our ticketing, which has allowed us to do multiple bookings at the same time, along with other ticketing options.
We have already had the first call for papers. If you have something interesting to present, please contact Steve Wright to show us all what you've been up to.
The annual SNUG workshop is a great chance to get together with other people who work in the signals industry. This includes contractors, consultants, designers, legislators, and RCA staff.
Credit Card payment is the only method of payment for the SNUG workshop. Please have your credit card handy when you book.
From SNUG Chair Jeff Greenough, and the rest of the SNUG committee, we look forward to seeing you in Queenstown.
The SNUG 2021 Workshop will be held in Queenstown, on March 11 & 12 (Thursday & Friday).
There will be a pre-workshop networking opportunity in the late afternoon of the day before, on Wednesday 10th March.
The final venue will be confirmed shortly, but we have a pick of several locations in Queenstown.
Please support NZ businesses and come and enjoy the second-most beautiful part of New Zealand.
The flight schedules into Queenstown are restrictive, so please get permission from your manager, and book your flights early.
A link to purchase tickets will be shared shortly.
And now - the call for papers!
Have you done anything interesting recently that you would like to share with other signal-related professionals?
As usual, it is people like you who come along and share your experiences which really make this the success that it is each year.
We are now looking for people to supply content to make the 2021 annual workshop the best yet!
If you have anything that you would like to present, please email stephen.wright @ccc.govt.nz with details and a brief outline of what you would like to talk about, and how long you'll need to spill the beans on what you did.
Please have a think about what you've been involved with, and send that email to Steve Wright as soon as you can to secure your presenting spot.
From the SNUG chair Jeff Greenough, myself, and the rest of the SNUG committee, we look forward to seeing you in March, in (fairly) beautiful Queenstown!
In September we in the SNUG committee sent out a link for a SurveyMonkey questionnaire.
We initiated this as we were having issues finding venues for the annual workshop. This venue issue is caused by a combination of hotels becoming isolation venues (and therefore not being available for conferences), and others not providing conference facilities due to uncertainty over the Covid situation.
This has reduced venue options, and pushed up pricing for available venues. The conditions for cancellation are not suitable for us, and increase the financial risk for the committee.
Added to this, is the current uncertainty over attendance, with some organisations still not allowing staff to attend workshops or conferences.
As such, and based on feedback from the questionnaire, the SNUG committee has made the decision to postpone this years workshop.
We are planning to attempt a one-day mini-workshop in Feb or March 2021. However, this will be dependent on some considerable loosening of the current constraints.
Since 2009, we have only missed one annual workshop. This was in 2011 and was caused by the double-whammy of the Christchurch Earthquakes, and the Rugby World Cup.
For those who are interested, the results of the survey can be found here.
If you have any questions, or need clarification on anything, please feel free to contact any member of the SNUG committee.
From SNUG Chair Jeff Greenough, myself, and the rest of the SNUG committee, we look forward to meeting you all in person soon.
Sean Lewis
Presentations Available Online
The December annual SNUG workshop and conference in Dunedin was a great success, with presentations from key industry personnel prompting great discussions and workshop outcomes. The industry-wide representation of delegates from traffic signal engineers, local authorities, traffic systems specialists, contractors, consultants and other practitioners allowed for some great networking and knowledge sharing.
Dunedin put on great weather for us, with the venue for both the technical tour, and the SNUG dinner being exceptional.
The presentations are now available on line from the 'Presentations' tab, for you to review for those extra details you want. Please share the link with any colleagues that you think would be interested in any of the content covered.
The next annual SNUG workshop will be held in Auckland, aiming for a date in early November. Prepare your manager now as you evaluate your training and conference opportunities for the next year.
From the chair Jeff Greenough, and the rest of the SNUG committee, we look forward to seeing you at one of our next events.
Exhibition & Technical Tour - Dunedin 04 December
SNUG Workshop 2019 – Dunedin 05 & 06 December
Following on from the hugely successful SNUG held last year in Hamilton, the SNUG Committee are pleased to announce advance notification of the 2019 SNUG Workshop. The SNUG Committee has elected to hold the event in Dunedin, over two days on the 5th and 6th December, with an industry exhibition and technical tour in the afternoon on the 4th December.
More details of the exhibition, and how to become an exhibitor, will be announced over the next few weeks.
SNUG is a subgroup of the Engineering NZ Transportation Group with the objective of "bringing about the advancement of the fundamental knowledge of the art, science and practice of design, operation and maintenance of traffic signals".
The field of Traffic Signals and Traffic System Control is moving forward rapidly and the SNUG Workshop is an opportunity for traffic signal engineers, local authorities, traffic systems specialists, contractors, consultants and other practitioners to discuss current developments in Traffic Signals and Traffic System Control.
On that note, if you have been involved in anything that you believe will be of interest to the signals community, please consider doing a presentation at the workshop. A call for papers will be made shortly.
Prepare your manager by getting this years SNUG into your Performance Review or Training Plans now!
Look out for further updates on the workshop details, call for papers, programme and registration between now and December 2019 on our website snug.org.nz.
From the chair Jeff Greenough, and the rest of the SNUG committee, we look forward to seeing you at the workshop in the Edinburgh of The South!
JCT Consultancy are offering training in LinSig3.2:SCATS modelling.
For more details, click this link, or the 'More Information' button below.
SNUG has no affiliation with JCT, but support any opportunity to share information and industry related knowledge on training courses.
s and control.
We had a number of polls during the workshop, with the results available on the Presentations page of the SNUG website.
We discussed the existence and use of the SNUG forum. Since then, there are a number of new posts placed on the forum.
Please go to the SNUG forum, review the topics, and contribute with your advice.
Think of the forum as an extension of the annual workshop, where others can view your questions, and you can help others out with your opinions and experience.
The presentations are now available on the SNUG website, along with a collection of photos taken by Sergio of SP Electronics.
Go to www.snug.org.nz, and select 'Presentations' from the menu.
There are a couple of new topics in the forum that we would like to hear your thoughts on.
- Should we allow filter turning through cycleway movements? Megan and Axel have suggested several discussion points plus ViaStrada’s current position – they’d like your input to the forum discussion: http://snug.org.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16
- Should we be keeping the red man lit at all times (except during 'walk' time) -http://snug.org.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=24#p24
We are also extending a special 'thank you' to John Kinghorn, and his team (Brandon, Holly & Dale), for the extra effort they put in as the hosts. We have received a lot of positive feedback form delegates in the last week.
Please remember that these workshops are made possible with the help from our sponsors.
Gold Sponsors -
HMI Technologies,
Spunlite Poles,
Fusion Networks.
Silver Sponsors -
FLIR ITS,
TSL,
CSLi.
And our Bronze Sponsors -
HTS Group,
Traffica
From SNUG Chair, Jeff Greenough, and the rest of the SNUG committee, thank you for your attendance in Hamilton. And if you couldn't come, please take some time to go over the presentations and pre-break videos.
Tickets to the SNUG Nov 2018 Annual Workshop are now available.
Earlybird tickets are available until October.
We will be calling for papers shortly, and be making the programme available after that.
The annual SNUG workshop is a great chance to get together with other people who work in the signals industry.
To see more details, and to book your tickets, please click here.
Please make sure you pay on time. Credit Card payment is the preferred method of payment for the SNUG committee. If you pay by invoice, please pay on time so we don't have to chase you up. The members of the SNUG committee are all volunteers, we don't want to spend our time chasing your accounts team for payment.
From SNUG Chair Jeff Greenough, and the rest of the SNUG committee, we look forward to seeing you in Hamilton.
