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Research Report 491 Factors influencing the decision to rehabilitate a pavement

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Category: Activity management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The objective of this research, undertaken in 2008–11, was the development of an improved method of modelling the decision to rehabilitate a typical New Zealand thin-surfaced unbound granular pavement.

Research Report 488 Crash risk relationships for improved road safety management

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Category: Safety, security and public health , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This report presents the results of a first attempt to combine detailed road geometry, road surface condition, carriageway characteristics and crash data information to develop a statistical crash prediction model for application to rural New Zealand…

Research Report 487 Experience with the development of off-peak bus services

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This research was undertaken in 2010–11 to appraise evidence from three New Zealand cities (Auckland, Dunedin, Hamilton) and four Australian cities (Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth) on the market impacts of improvements in urban bus services at …

Research report 485 Ground vibration from road construction

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

There is an increasing requirement to control and manage ground vibrations generated by road construction and maintenance activities through project specific construction management plans.

Research Report 482 Fleet management commitment to fuel efficiency

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Category: Economic development , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The aim of this research, undertaken in 2009-2011, was to identify ways of overcoming the barriers faced by managers of New Zealand's light and heavy vehicle fleets in attempting to implement fuel efficiency as part of their normal way of doing …

Research Report 481 Demand for transport services: impact on networks of older persons' travel as the population of New Zealand ages

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This research, undertaken in 2010, aimed to provide predictions of older persons' (age 65+) demand for transport until the mid-21st century in New Zealand, and how this will affect our networks.

Research report 480 Gap acceptance road safety modelling: pilot study

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Category: Safety, security and public health , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

A key problem for local authorities is the lack of robust techniques for evaluating crash risk at high-volume, urban, priority-controlled intersections.

Research Report 479 The economic and land use impacts of transformational transport investment

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Category: Economic development , Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The purpose of this research, which was undertaken between July 2010 and June 2011, was to develop, test and recommend additional methodologies that could be used to quantify the economic productivity and land use impacts when assessing transformatio…