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Road safety hardware system testing

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Category: Road safety hardware and practice , Technical memoranda | Audience: Road controlling authorities

To advise of the compliance testing requirements for road safety hardware systems.

Wire rope safety barrier (WRSB) transitions

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Category: Road safety hardware and practice , Technical memoranda | Audience: Road traffic engineers & consultants

This technical memorandum provides advice on the recommended practice for the design and installation of transitions between wire rope safety barriers (WRSB) and semi-rigid and rigid barrier systems. The barrier configurations in the memo are generic…

Use of reclaimed tyre rubber in asphalt

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Category: Surfacings & asphalt , Technical memoranda | Audiences: Road controlling authorities, Road traffic engineers & consultants

This report identifies possible methods and constraints on the use of waste tyre rubber in asphalt in New Zealand.

Revisions to TNZ P/24 and the RSMA compliance standard

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Category: Structures (bridges, culverts & geotechnical) , Technical memoranda | Audience: Road traffic engineers & consultants

This memo provides details of revisions to Transit New Zealand specification P/24: 2008 and the NZ Transport Agency Endorsed RSMA compliance standard for traffic signs that were implemented on 1 July 2008.

Superelevation calculations

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Category: Structures (bridges, culverts & geotechnical) , Technical memoranda | Audience: Road traffic engineers & consultants

This memorandum provides information for practitioners on the calculation of road superelevation appropriate for a vehicle speed and curve radius.

Using low strength concrete around guardrail posts

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Category: Road safety hardware and practice , Technical memoranda | Audience: Road traffic engineers & consultants

To advise on the recommended practice for using low strength concrete around guardrail posts that are installed in hard surfaces such as concrete footpaths.

Procedure for assessing bitumens for acceptance by the penetration test

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Category: Surfacings & asphalt , Technical memoranda | Audiences: Road traffic engineers & consultants, Roading contractors

The procedure for assessing bitumens for acceptance by the penetration test shows the calculations used to set the acceptance limits shown in table 1 of M1 notes:2010.

Road safety barrier: ground beam

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Category: Road safety hardware and practice , Technical memoranda | Audience: Road traffic engineers & consultants

To advise on the recommended practice for the design and installation of a ground beam for the support of semi-rigid road safety barrier systems. This design applies to public domain systems only.