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Research Report 629 System dynamics investigation of freight flows, economic development and network performance

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Category: Performance monitoring , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: General, Road traffic engineers & consultants

The purpose of this research was to investigate if and how systems dynamic (SD) modelling could be used for understanding traffic flows at an inter-regional (state highway) level, in the context of improving understanding of the relationship between …

Research Report 627 Data standards for the NZ transport network

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Category: Transport demand management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: General, Road traffic engineers & consultants

As transport network operations become more and more time critical the requirement for knowledge of the performance and state of the network becomes more significant for decision support.

Research Report 424 Design moisture condition guidelines for pavement design and material assessment

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

A pavement design model developed in the USA is used to estimate the equilibrium degree of saturation in pavement subgrade and basecourse materials.

Research Report 626 The long-term acoustic performance of New Zealand standard porous asphalt

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Category: Activity management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: General, Road traffic engineers & consultants, Roading contractors

Research was commissioned to investigate the long-term acoustic performance of New Zealand standard porous asphalt made to TNZ P/11 Specification for open graded porous asphalt (OGPA).

Research report 423 Effectiveness of transverse road markings on reducing vehicle speeds

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

Transverse road markings as a speed mitigation device may be a cost-effective method of reducing fatal and serious injury crashes as a consequence of speeding on a high-speed hazard approach.

Research Report 625 Use of technology to measure and improve freight movements

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

The advance of technology has created several rich sources of data to analyse road network performance and freight patterns.

Research report 420 Improving school travel systems

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

The purpose of this research, carried out between 2008 and 2010, was to investigate the evidence for prioritising school travel initiatives, and to develop an evidence-based toolkit for the design of school travel systems, to supplement existing scho…

Research Report 042 The bonding of new to old concrete bridge decks as affected by vehicular traffic

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

This project, undertaken in 1992, simulated the situation when a bridge is widened with a new concrete extension and then, after a delay period, traffic continues to use the existing old concrete bridge while the extension is curing.

Research report 419 Attitudes and behaviour in relation to public transport in New Zealand's non-metropolitan regions

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

During the last decade, New Zealand's non-metropolitan regions have undergone significant demographic and economic changes as a result of migration and changing employment trends.