Mr Wood, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency staff, Dunedin City Council representatives, and others, will tour the city to take in a range of planned transport projects that coincide with the construction of the New Dunedin Hospital.
A focal point for debate in Dunedin at present — the one-way State Highway routes through the city — will be traversed.
"I am looking forward to getting an on-the-ground understanding of how the current one-way system will impact the new hospital and surrounding area, along with the impact of any potential network changes," Mr Wood said yesterday.
"As a Government we are investing significantly in a number of projects around Dunedin.
"I am also interested to hear what future works are a priority for the people of Dunedin."
The transport agency and city council have appeared at odds recently when an agency board decision in favour of the one-way system through Dunedin was fought by the council.
With the new hospital to be situated in the centre of the one-way network, the council has sought a two-way reconfiguring of the roads as the basis for future discussion.
Councillors were, though, split on the issue at the start of the year in a 7-5 vote, with three councillors absent.
Mr Wood and his entourage will drive State Highway88, to visit several locations that are part of the roading changes, including the Roseneath cutting where cyclists and vehicles will be separated along the route.
The tour will carry on through the city to take in the new hospital site and the city centre.
After lunch, the minister will make a stop at the former Caversham railway tunnel where a cycleway is planned.
He will end his visit with a stop at the proposed "park and ride" site at Burnside.
The itinerary his office provided the Otago Daily Times yesterday includes the people he plans to meet and travel with.
From the council, only chief executive Sandy Graham and Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins are specified.
Mr Hawkins said he was looking forward to Mr Wood’s visit "and the varied transport-related discussion we will have".
He would not be drawn on what questions he had for the minister, what he hoped Mr Wood would take away from his visit to the city, nor what he would advocate for.
Cr David Benson-Pope said since the mayor and chief executive were the council’s two most senior representatives they were the appropriate people to convey council policy and concerns to the minister and his staff.
But Cr Andrew Whiley, who in an opinion piece in the ODT on Wednesday argued if the "one-way system isn’t broken, why fix it?", said he had been left in the dark before the visit.
He said it was disappointing Mr Wood would not hear from a wider group of councillors.
Infrastructure services committee chairman Cr Jim O’Malley called it a missed opportunity for the minister.
He said he had made it clear publicly that the Government was underinvesting in transport in Dunedin.
Not being invited to meet the minister was "par for the course", he said, yet he admitted frustration.
Labour’s Taieri MP Ingrid Leary, who will tour the city with the minister tomorrow, said the minister’s time was limited, but she was confident the key issues in Dunedin’s transport system would be covered today.
