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This study, carried out in 2004 at the Traffic and Road Safety Research Laboratory, University of Waikato, assessed driver reactions to 16 road hazard warning signs of various formats.

The project was aimed at improving overtaking lane design through a better understanding of driver behaviour during overtaking.

The measurement of traffic volumes on an extensive nationwide network is a very large task.

Most chipsealing in New Zealand is carried out using bitumen cutback (i.e.

This report describes investigating ways of quantifying the severance effects of roads.

This report describes a New Zealand study of the effect of different binders on the rate of chipseal texture loss under traffic.

Freight transportation is one of the key but often overlooked areas of transport policy.

In 2003, Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) and the Cancer Society of New Zealand commissioned a major social marketing survey to segment adult New Zealanders in terms of physical activity and healthy eating habits.

The road transport industry in New Zealand has been lobbying for increases in the allowable mass limits for heavy vehicles on the basis that this would give increased efficiency and benefits to the economy.

Traditionally, treatment of frost, ice and snow on New Zealand roads has involved spreading of mineral grit on the affected areas but this has disadvantages.