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Research Report 016 Economic disbenefits of dust from unsealed roads

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

Potential economic disbenefits of dust emission from unsealed roads impact on crop production, animal food supply and health, accident potential, property values and maintenance costs, vehicle operating costs and personal health.

Research Report 188 Thin bituminous surfacings for stabilised pavements

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

This report presents a state-of-the-art review of the use of thin surfacings over bound (cementitiously stabilised) pavement layers and develops a test protocol for future research, based on field evaluations of in-service trial pavements.

Research Report 187 Characterisation of some New Zealand subgrades

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

The current AUSTROADS (1992) pavement design procedure used in New Zealand uses a basic assumption that suggests that a vertical compressive strain applied to any subgrade will cause the same amount of plastic strain to occur irrespective of the type…

Research Report 185 Methods to establish design traffic loading

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The report describes the collection and analysis of heavy vehicle data with the objectives of developing appropriate procedures for establishing the design traffic parameter and determining traffic distribution design factors.

Research Report 184 Valuation of public transport attributes

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

A research project was undertaken in 1999/2000 to review international evidence on user valuations of the individual components of public transport journeys, for use in forecasting the demand for and evaluating user benefits of public transport impro…

Research Report 175 Effects of multiple presence & monitoring period on bridge health monitoring

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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 174 Health monitoring of superstructures of New Zealand road bridges: Tuakopai Bridge, Bay of Plenty

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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 122 Flushing processes in chipseals: effects of trafficking

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

Flushed and unflushed chipseal samples were taken in 1997–98, near sites where flushing had occurred on state highways in the Wairarapa, New Zealand.

Research Report 172 Health monitoring of superstructures of New Zealand road bridges: Whanganui Bridge, Whanganui

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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 017 Aggregates for road pavements

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

A review has been made of literature describing the results of research into the properties and performance of unbound mineral aggregate used in the construction of road pavements.