Resources

A GIS-based screening tool is described for identifying and ranking sensitive receiving environments (SREs) at risk from road runoff from state highways and local roads in New Zealand.

This research, carried out in 2003–2004, aimed to facilitate the recycling of asphalt mix, recycled asphalt pavement (RAP), and crumb rubber (CR) from waste tyres into New Zealand roads.

Reliable techniques have been used in a number of countries throughout the world for some years now for the prediction, measurement, assessment and control of road traffic noise.

The noise from road traffic affects large numbers of people living in the vicinity of State Highways and arterial roads.

In 2006–2007, 35 road-derived sediments (RDS) consisting of street sweepings and catchpit (ie sump) sediments, were collected from three cities in New Zealand; namely Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch.

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is widely used in transport policy development and planning in Europe and North America.

A study, carried out in 1998–2000, investigated if a traffic noise lvel of 55dBA, the level allowed in the 1994 Transit New Zealand Road traffic noise guidelines, was an acceptable limit in New Zealand for areas that previously had low traffic noise.

These guidelines for integrated stormwater management provide guidance on a range of issues relating to the management of stormwater run-off from state highways and local roads in New Zealand, including: the legal framework within which stormwater ma…

This project examines the costs and benefits of, and alternatives to, the resource consent process of the Resource Management Act 1991 in circumstances where the process has been applied to routine maintenance works on New Zealand state highways.

Vehicular traffic on road asphalt generates a variety of inorganic and organic contaminants.