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This research report examines how benefit and cost appraisals for road operations, maintenance and renewal, and minor work improvements could be undertaken in a manner comparable with the appraisal framework for capital investments.

This report reviews the major approaches for assessing national and regional economic benefits, as well as the potential distributional implications of transport induced benefits.

Cycling for transport in New Zealand is a minority activity, yet the recreational cycling market is growing.

Roading projects may have adverse effects on indigenous wildlife.

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 …

Demand responsive services (DRT) are seen as a cure for high-cost bus services in low-demand areas.

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.

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

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).

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.