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Research Report 365 The usability and safety of audio tactile profiled road markings

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

Audio tactile profiled (ATP) road markings (also known by road users as rumble strips) have been used at selected locations on New Zealand roads in recent years.

Research Report 363 Accessibility planning methods

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

This research investigated the applicability of accessibility planning in New Zealand as a tool for assessing and improving personal access to essential services for all New Zealanders.

Research Report 362 Incorporating sustainable land transport into district plans: discussion document and best practice guidance

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

This report is a discussion document introducing the concept of sustainable land transport, discussing the interaction between land use planning and sustainable transport, and introducing some guidance to incorporating sustainable land transport into…

Research Report 357 Managing transport challenges when oil prices rise

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

This report provides practical guidance to central, regional, and local government agencies on how to manage the transport challenges associated with rising oil prices.

Research Report 355 Engineering lifelines and transport – should New Zealand be doing it better?

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

This project examined New Zealand engineering lifelines activity, its level of integration in road controlling authority management practices, and its relationship to the resilience of roading networks to natural hazards.

Research Report 354 Better integration of land use and transport at a regional level: scoping of regional guidelines

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

The integration of land use and transport is considered to be a key priority in delivering a sustainable transport system, yet its implementation remains problematic.

Research Report 353 National travel profiles – part A: description of daily travel patterns

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

Gaining a thorough understanding of daily travel for all trip purposes and by all modes of travel is essential to policy and planning.

Research Report 352 Using road profile variance to identify sites that promote poor truck ride quality

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

The relationships between measured truck response data and road profile variance values derived from raw road profiles for short, long and medium wavelengths were examined.

Research Report 045 Tourism benefits from sealing roads: user survey of Milford Sound road

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

The benefits from sealing roads on the level of tourism activity and on gross tourism expenditure in New Zealand using, as a case study, the effects of sealing the Milford Sound road are reported.

Research Report 449 Assessment of the type of cycling infrastructure required to attract new cyclists

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

This research, which was conducted from July 2008 to January 2010, investigated what type of cycling infrastructure would encourage 'new cyclists' (ie people who either do not currently cycle at all, or people who do not currently cycle for…