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Research Report 528 Improvement of visual road condition data

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

The objective of this research, which was carried out between 2010 and 2012, was to investigate the effectiveness of the current road condition rating system with a view to improving the accuracy and confidence in the data collected.

Research Report 556 Survey methods for driver mobile phone use

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Category: Safety, security and public health , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: Advice and assistance, General

Reducing driver distraction, including distraction resulting from mobile phone use, is an aim of New Zealand’s Safer Journeys programme.

Research Report 527 Improving bus service reliability

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Category: Integrated land use and transport systems , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The objective of this research (undertaken in 2010–12) was to provide urban bus operators and public transport contracting authorities in New Zealand with practical guidance on methods for diagnosis of urban bus service (un)reliability, the causes of…

Research Report 525 Steel-concrete composite bridge design guide

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

This report provides guidance on the design of steel-concrete composite bridges, which consist of steel girders and reinforced concrete slabs on top.

Research Report 555 Optimising drainage maintenance for pavement performance

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Category: Activity management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: Advice and assistance, General, Roading contractors

This project was designed to investigate the importance of drainage maintenance for pavement performance and to recommend a maintenance strategy.

Research Report 551 Car passenger valuations of quantity and quality of time savings

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

The objective of this research project was to undertake primary market research in New Zealand, at an exploratory level, to gain greater understanding of car passengers’ valuations of travel time savings in a range of situations (including passenger …

Research Report 055 A model to predict logging traffic and associated pavement loading from New Zealand forests

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

A computer model was devised in 1993 to predict heavy traffic flows generated by the operations arising from the 30-year planning period of a production forest (from planting to harvest) in New Zealand, for an area served by a road network.

Research Report 516 Detailed observations and validated modelling of the impact of traffic on the air quality of roadside communities

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

Detailed observations of air quality and local meteorology were conducted on either side of a stretch of the Auckland southern motorway, and in the surrounding residential neighbourhood.

Research Report 054B National traffic database – Quality plan

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Category: Transport demand management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The National Traffic Database (NTDB) is a system for storing traffic data on each of approximately 120,000 sections of New Zealand public road network (state highways and local roads).