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The C-roundabout (cyclist roundabout) is a new multi-lane roundabout design (developed as part of a 2006 Land Transport NZ research project Improved multi-lane roundabout designs for cyclists) that aims to improve the safety of cyclists at multi-lane…

This report presents a suggested procedure for selecting the economically optimum treatment for restoring the skid resistance of an existing road surface when it is found to be deficient.

This report presents the results of a research programme involving both laboratory and on-road investigations that has been carried out in 1996–97 with the aims of: improved understanding of the Polished Stone Value (PSV) test and its application to …

A number of alternative intersection layouts are used around the country to reduce traffic delays and to improve road safety.

Audio tactile profiled (ATP) road markings (also known by road users as rumble strips) have been used at selected locations on New Zealand roads in recent years.

Since about 1997 the brightness of roadmarkings on a number of New Zealand state highways has been increased.

The transport industry in New Zealand has requested that the maximum speed of transporters and mobile power cranes be increased from the present 50 km/h to the legal speed limit of 100 km/h.

In the 21 years from 1987 to 2007 inclusive, 22 children were killed, 45 seriously injured and 91 received minor injuries when crossing the road to or from a school bus.

The aim of this research, carried out in 2004, is to improve safety for children on their home to school journey.

The primary objective of this study, done between July 2003 and June 2004, was to determine relationships between road cross-sectional geometry and heavy vehicle performance and then to use these relationships to estimate the effect of road geometry …