| Research organisation | Project title | Total NLTA funding ($000) |
Previous NLTA funding ($000) |
2008/09 NLTA ($000) |
2009/10 NLTA ($000) |
2010/11 NLTA ($000) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research | ||||||
| Committed - existing activities | ||||||
| Environmental effects | ||||||
| National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Science Ltd (NIWA) | Enhancing the control of contaminants from New Zealand's roads |
169.7 |
96.5 |
73.2 |
- |
- |
| Sustainable land transport | ||||||
| CJN Technologies | Climate change effects on the land transport network |
250.0 |
150.0 |
100.0 |
- |
- |
| IMISE and Kissling Consulting | Improving commercial vehicle fuel efficiency monitoring |
90.0 |
50.0 |
40.0 |
- |
- |
| Travel behaviour | ||||||
| Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Ltd (TERNZ) | Overcoming barriers to cycling to and from school |
109.3 |
70.5 |
38.9 |
- |
- |
| Safety and personal security | ||||||
| Opus Central Laboratories | Improved delineation: a new method of assessing the effect of better delineation on driving |
143.0 |
127.0 |
16.0 |
- |
- |
| Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Ltd (TERNZ) | School bus safety |
155.0 |
72.0 |
83.0 |
- |
- |
| Beca Infrastructure | Rural crash prediction models - next generation |
165.0 |
109.0 |
56.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Improved effectiveness and innovation for audio tactile profiled roadmarkings |
150.0 |
60.0 |
90.0 |
- |
- |
| Network management | ||||||
| University of Canterbury | Effectiveness of incident management on network reliability - Stage 2 |
170.0 |
90.0 |
80.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Minimum design parameters for cycle connectivity |
134.5 |
89.0 |
45.5 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Improved rate-of-rotation design limits |
110.0 |
60.0 |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| Asset management | ||||||
| Transit New Zealand | What Asphalt Surfacing Should be Used and How to Ensure it Meets its Design Life |
190.0 |
165.0 |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| University of Canterbury | Tyre/road contact stress distributions measured and modeled in three coordinate directions |
129.0 |
104.5 |
24.5 |
- |
- |
| Fulton Hogan Limited | Investigating the Contribution of Sealing Chip Application Rates to the Early Failure of Chip Seals |
78.6 |
56.6 |
22.0 |
- |
- |
| MWH New Zealand Ltd/ University of Auckland | Rationalisation of the strength definition and quantification of NZ roads based on falling weight deflectometer tests (FWD) |
90.0 |
60.0 |
30.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Design moisture condition guidelines for pavement design and material assessment |
75.0 |
60.0 |
15.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Resealing strategies to increase seal life and prevent seal layer instability |
135.0 |
45.0 |
90.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | The influence of binder rise in reducing tyre-road friction |
67.5 |
42.5 |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Long life porous asphalt |
130.0 |
95.0 |
10.0 |
25.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Multi-grade bitumens |
134.0 |
100.0 |
8.0 |
8.0 |
18.0 |
| Pavespec Ltd | Development of a basecourse/sub base design criterion |
100.4 |
75.4 |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| Pavespec Ltd | Pavement thickness design charts derived from rut depth models |
96.0 |
42.0 |
54.0 |
- |
- |
| Category 2 - new activities | ||||||
| Environmental effects | ||||||
| University of Canterbury | Determination of personal exposure to traffic pollution while travelling by different modes |
127.9 |
- |
73.1 |
54.8 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Environmental and financial costs and benefits of warm asphalts |
43.0 |
- |
28.0 |
15.0 |
- |
| Sustainable land transport | ||||||
| University of Otago/University of Auckland/Massey University/Synergia | Health effects of intervening in the trip to work |
20.5 |
- |
8.2 |
8.2 |
4.1 |
| NIWA | Integrated local environmental and health impact analysis of land transport emissions |
135.2 |
- |
82.0 |
53.2 |
- |
| Quigley and Watts/Martin Ward | Applying health impact assessment to land transport studies: how, when and why? |
65.0 |
- |
65.0 |
- |
- |
| Massey University | Public transport network planning: an Australasian guide to best practice |
95.0 |
- |
95.0 |
- |
- |
| Fitzgerald Applied Sociology | Addressing the social impacts of poor access to transport in rural New Zealand |
125.0 |
- |
125.0 |
- |
- |
| TERNZ | Low emission, fuel efficient vehicles |
71.0 |
- |
71.0 |
- |
- |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | Demand-responsiveness passenger transport in low demand situations |
115.0 |
- |
115.0 |
- |
- |
| Massey University | Attitudes and behaviour in relation to public transport: a study of trends in passenger transport usage in New Zealand's non-metropolitan regions |
89.0 |
- |
89.0 |
- |
- |
| Ian Wallis Associates | Appraisal of the effectiveness of increased public transport funding |
88.0 |
- |
88.0 |
- |
- |
| Ian Wallis Associates | Experience with the development of off-peak public transport services |
87.0 |
- |
87.0 |
- |
- |
| Ian Wallis Associates | The costs of congestion reappraised |
98.0 |
- |
98.0 |
- |
- |
| Pinnacle Research and Policy/Capital Research Ltd | Slow zones: their impact on mode choice and travel behaviour |
59.0 |
- |
59.0 |
- |
- |
| Pinnacle Research and Policy/Ian Wallis Associates | How does central city intensification impact on people's travel behaviour? Do people live where they work and play? |
79.0 |
- |
79.0 |
- |
- |
| Pinnacle Research and Policy/Ian Wallis Associates | A wider look at how travellers value the quality and quantity of travel time |
58.0 |
- |
58.0 |
- |
- |
| Travel behaviour | ||||||
| Tau Squared Ltd | Incorporating travel time reliability in the estimation of assignment models |
50.0 |
- |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| University of Canterbury | Travel demand behaviour change with increasing fuel price as a function of affluence for a similar activity cohort |
140.0 |
- |
85.0 |
55.0 |
- |
| University of Canterbury | An assessment of the type of cycle infrastructure required to attract new cyclists |
79.1 |
- |
79.1 |
- |
- |
| Capital Research/Pinnacle Research | Improving evaluation and monitoring through better understanding of kilometres travelled and vehicle occupancy in urban areas |
73.0 |
- |
73.0 |
- |
- |
| Massey University/Otago Polytechnic | "I'll just take the car" - how can the urban environment and bicycle transportation be improved to discourage automobile use for short trips? |
118.0 |
- |
51.4 |
66.6 |
- |
| Ian Wallis Associates | Improving bus service reliability |
95.0 |
- |
95.0 |
- |
- |
| Safety and personal security | ||||||
| NZ Police | Rural drink-driving enforcement in the Southern Police District |
43.5 |
- |
43.5 |
- |
- |
| Opus International Consultants | Effectiveness of transverse road markings on reducing vehicle speeds |
68.5 |
- |
47.5 |
21.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Introduction of improved methods for measurement of the road reflection properties of road surfaces to improve safety |
115.0 |
- |
95.0 |
20.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Determining the mechanisms and types of non-motor vehicle injuries to pedestrians using the transport system, and indicated infrastructural implications |
75.0 |
- |
40.0 |
35.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Investigation of passing lane safety benefits, including upstream and downstream areas |
80.0 |
- |
65.0 |
15.0 |
- |
| TERNZ | Improving transport around schools |
96.0 |
- |
59.0 |
37.0 |
- |
| Beca Infrastructure | Gap acceptance accident prediction models |
85.9 |
- |
85.9 |
- |
- |
| Traffic Engineering Solutions | Evaluation of the C-Roundabout - a new design tool for economically improving safety and capacity at urban road junctions |
46.0 |
- |
46.0 |
- |
- |
| Traffic Engineering Solutions | Improved multi-lane roundabout designs for all road users |
121.0 |
- |
69.0 |
52.0 |
- |
| Risk management | ||||||
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland | Seismic design of NZ highway bridges under non-uniform multiple support ground excitations |
38.5 |
- |
12.9 |
16.0 |
9.6 |
| University of Canterbury | Benchmarking the readiness of Road Controlling Authorities to meet their obligations under the CDEM Act 2002 |
75.6 |
- |
28.4 |
47.1 |
- |
| RIMS Group/NAMS Group | Case studies and best practice guidelines for risk management on road networks |
65.0 |
- |
65.0 |
- |
- |
| Network management | ||||||
| GHD Ltd | Transit lane or bus lane? |
85.0 |
- |
85.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories/Fulton Hogan | Minimising traffic delay during resealing |
80.0 |
- |
65.0 |
15.0 |
- |
| Asset management | ||||||
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland | Decision tool to mitigate prestressed concrete bridge corrosion |
60.0 |
- |
30.0 |
20.0 |
10.0 |
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland | Design of prestressed concrete bridges to resist shear |
42.0 |
- |
28.0 |
4.0 |
10.0 |
| Pavespec Ltd | Development of tensile fatigue pavement design criteria for modified aggregates |
82.0 |
- |
55.5 |
26.5 |
- |
| University of Auckland | Earthquake resistant design of bridges - abutment/backfill influences on response and retrofit decisions |
30.0 |
- |
10.0 |
10.0 |
10.0 |
| University of Auckland | Retrofit assessment of bridge pile foundations |
30.0 |
- |
10.0 |
10.0 |
10.0 |
| University of Auckland/Opus Intl Consultants | Data collection and monitoring strategies for asset management of NZ road bridges |
105.0 |
- |
60.0 |
45.0 |
- |
| Pavement Management Services/R&D Consultants/University of Auckland | Enhancing the application of roughness measurement and deterioration |
130.0 |
- |
55.0 |
75.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Pavement rehabilitation initiation |
105.0 |
- |
46.0 |
59.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Screening bridges for potentially high dynamic loads using profile variance |
59.0 |
- |
59.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Concrete pile durability in South Island bridges |
123.0 |
- |
25.0 |
80.0 |
18.0 |
| Opus Central Laboratories/EDI Works | Asphalt durability |
170.0 |
- |
55.0 |
115.0 |
- |
| Transit NZ/Opus International Consultants/University of Auckland | Are chipseals waterproof enough on high volume roads? |
1,073.0 |
- |
345.0 |
498.0 |
230.0 |
| Research | ||||||
| External delivers | Editing and publishing of research programme newsletters and reports |
- |
- |
146.0 |
- |
- |
| Various | Directed research funding allocation |
- |
- |
259.4 |
- |
- |
| Education | ||||||
| Committed - existing activities | ||||||
| External deliverer | RoadSense - Ata Haere |
- |
- |
2,060.1 |
- |
- |
| Advertising agencies | Advertising for safe use of the land transport system |
- |
- |
15,672.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Advertising for sustainable use of the land transport system |
- |
- |
2,000.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Development of a Walkwise Programme |
- |
- |
250.0 |
- |
- |
| Safe with Age NZ (SWANZ) | Safe with Age Programme |
- |
- |
247.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | “Getting There” Information Centre |
- |
- |
150.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | "Getting There" Implementation Plan |
- |
- |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | "Getting There" Implementation Plan - Share the road |
- |
- |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | "Getting There" Implementation Plan - Neighbourhood travel plans |
- |
- |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Walking & Cycling Model Communities |
- |
- |
200.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Road Controlling Authorities Benchmarking Programme |
- |
- |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Strengthening User Group Networks Programme |
- |
- |
400.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Long-distance Cycle Networks Investigation Project |
- |
- |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Expansion of road user training and education related to pedestrians and cyclists |
- |
- |
180.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Bikewise |
- |
- |
276.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) - website |
- |
- |
150.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Used car assessment programme - Used Car Safety Rating (USCR) |
- |
- |
34.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Used car assessment programme - Vehicle data for website (Red Books) |
- |
- |
20.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Website - Car safety and sustainability information |
- |
- |
35.0 |
- |
- |
| Training | ||||||
| Committed - existing activities | ||||||
| University of Auckland | Masters Degree Programme |
- |
- |
195.0 |
- |
- |
| University of Canterbury | Masters Degree Programme |
- |
- |
195.0 |
- |
- |
| NZIHT | Bachelor Degree Programme |
- |
- |
60.0 |
- |
- |
| InfraTrain | Training in pavement construction |
- |
- |
500.0 |
- |
- |
| Andrew Justice Scholarship | Mechanical Engineering Study (offered every second year commencing 2007/08) |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Universities of Auckland and Canterbury | Engineering scholarships/awards to Universities |
- |
- |
30.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Foundation Certificate in Injury Prevention |
- |
- |
37.5 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Professional development for Co-ordinators |
- |
- |
20.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Implementing Land Transport NZ's Training Strategy |
- |
- |
20.0 |
- |
- |
