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This rule sets out requirements and standards for heavy vehicle safety.

This TAN clarifies issues related to the utilisation of concrete barriers to temporarily detain rockfall/slope debris.

Traffic notes provide traffic safety information and guidance which may apply to all types of roads. They are intended for people/organisations that control, design, build or manage roads in New Zealand.

In New Zealand, premature failure of low volume, low strength state highways and local authority roads has sometimes occurred due to significant changes in heavy commercial vehicle traffic. Current New Zealand pavement deterioration models (eg

The National Traffic Database (NTDB) is a system for storing traffic data on each of approximately 120,000 sections of New Zealand public road network (state highways and local roads). It incorporates data collected by each Road Controlling

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. Heavy vehicle data has

The measurement of traffic volumes on an extensive nationwide network is a very large task. It is not feasible to count all traffic on all roads all of the time. Considerable reduction or effort in the counting process can be achieved by identifying

direct correlation was identified between short throughlane length and associated lane use. Also, short lane use was substantially less than that estimated by an analytical traffic model. Furthermore, graphs indicated that approach lane length and