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Over recent years, interest has been increasing, in New Zealand and internationally, in the application of tolling policies to contribute to the funding of major new road infrastructure projects in larger urban areas.

There has been increasing interest by governments in New Zealand in replacing short car trips (<5 km) with trips using other more environmentally friendly modes, such as passenger transport, walking and cycling.

The main purpose of this project is to identify appropriate traffic and loading data for use in RAMM, other pavement management systems (PMS) with treatment selection algorithms and for pavement deterioration models.

The most common form of distress of aged open graded porous asphalt (OGPA) is loss of chip from the surface (fretting and ravelling) caused by embrittlement through reaction with atmospheric oxygen.

This study investigated the potential to define a benefit cost based on the reduction of contaminants provided by a road stormwater run-off treatment device.

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 …

As the demand for a cost-effective and environmentally friendly pavement stabilisation method increases, so has foamed bitumen stabilisation for unbound granular pavement layers started to gain broad acceptance worldwide.

This report presents the results of a 4-year research programme (from 2000 to 2003) involving a combination of field, laboratory based, and statistical modelling studies undertaken to identify critical aggregate properties from the perspective of in-…

This research, (conducted in 2003 on state highways in the upper North Island, New Zealand), aimed to improve safety at passing lanes by examining the influence of lane design on driver behaviour.

An investigation into the application of SASW (seismic analysis of surface waves), to measure the layer thickness and material moduli of pavements to assess pavement strength, was carried out in 2003 on roads in New Zealand.