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Research Report 580 Quantifying the likelihood of barrier strike maintenance

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

Recent research both in New Zealand and Australia has identified the benefits associated with the installation of various barrier types and in particular the significant benefits associated with wire rope barriers (WRBs).

Research Report 579 Chipseal cracking

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

The fatigue cracking behaviour of laboratory prepared chipseal beams and beams cut from field samples was studied using a four-point bending test method.

Research Report 578 Removing barriers to the use of crumb rubber in roads

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Category: Activity management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: General, Roading contractors

The purpose of this research was to identify the barriers to using tyre-derived crumb rubber in bitumen binder in New Zealand roading and the methods to remove these barriers to create market demand for New Zealand waste tyre-derived products.

Research Report 577 Criteria and guidance for the design of integral bridges in New Zealand

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Category: Publication Category , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: General, Roading contractors

The use of integral and semi-integral bridges in New Zealand is fairly common practice due to advantages in ease of construction and savings in maintenance and whole-of-life costs.

Research Report 576 Flushing in chipseals

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Category: Activity management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: Road traffic engineers & consultants

This report details research carried out from 2012 to 2015 into chipseal flushing.

Research Report 574 Geosynthetics in basecourse stablisation

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Category: Activity management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: Road controlling authorities, Road traffic engineers & consultants, Roading contractors

The application of geosynthetics (ie geogrids) for the stabilisation of basecourses prepared with a River Run rounded gravel aggregate was investigated.

Research Report 568 Travel time savings and speed: actual and perceived

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Category: Integrated land use and transport systems , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This project aimed to understand time saving as a motivation for New Zealand drivers’ speeding behaviour in the context of other motivations for speeding, and to investigate the effect of education designed to improve participants’ understanding of t…

Research Report 565 Pricing strategies for public transport

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Category: Transport demand management , Research programme , Research & reports

The study looked at the trade-off between price and quality for bus and train users in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington.

Research Report 098 Monetary valuation of intangibles – literature review and pilot surveys

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

Literature on the monetary valuation of the environmental effects of roads and road traffic on adjoining residential land use is reviewed.