Peter Siemensma

Peter works as the Principal Strategic Transport Planner for Tauranga City Council, within the Strategy & Growth team. He worked in the field of transport planning in the Netherlands, England and Scotland for over ten years before making the move to New Zealand in early 2019. In his current role, Peter’s role involves leading on policy and infrastructure solutions to cater for the growth of Tauranga; to enable further intensification as well as greenfield developments. Delivering more efficient ways to use Tauranga’s roading network will be key to enabling this growth, primarily through enabling mode shift and better managing peak demand. He primarily works on the City’s transport strategies, infrastructure business cases, plan changes and scheme design. Since 2023, Peter has been involved in Tauranga’s initial investigations into road user charging, and will present the key findings from this study and community engagement at this ITS NZ event.