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Research Report 167 Health monitoring of superstructures of New Zealand road bridges: Rakaia Bridge, Canterbury

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

Bridge health monitoring is a method of evaluating the ability of a bridge to perform its required task (also called fitness for purpose) by monitoring the response of the bridge to the traffic loads it has to withstand.

Research report 403 The influence of surface treatments on the service lives of concrete bridges

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

The corrosion of reinforcing bars and prestressing steel is the most significant risk to the durability of concrete road bridges in New Zealand.

Research report 401 Rationalisation of the structural capacity definition and quantification of roads based on falling weight deflectometer tests

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

Pavement performance modelling for New Zealand roading networks, currently relies on an adjusted structural number (SNP) which is a single parameter intended to describe the performance of a multi-layered pavement structure in terms of its rate of de…

Research Report 159 The effect of link reliability on benefit/cost ratios

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Category: Natural hazard risk management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This report develops project evaluation procedures to incorporate risk assessment of road link reliabilities.

Research Report 004 A road lighting survey method for accident sites

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

A rapid method has been developed to evaluate the night lighting conditions at a road site in terms of the performance values of the Road Lighting Code.

Research Report 396 Public transport network planning: a guide to best practice in NZ cities

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

This research explores the potential for the ‘network-planning’ approach to the design of public transport to improve patronage of public transport services in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Research Report 395 Enhancing the control of contaminants from New Zealand's roads: results of a road runoff sampling programme

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

This study provides guidance on vehicle emission factors (VEFs) for loads of copper and zinc discharged in road runoff, and the performance of stormwater treatment devices for removing these metals and total suspended sediments (TSS).

Research Report 157 Measuring and enhancing roadside biodiversity

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

A new method of biodiversity assessment is developed to characterise the biodiversity values of roads across New Zealand.

Research Report 156 Flushing processes in chipseals: effects of water

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

A study was made of proposed means by which water can enter chipseals surfaces and induce flushing.