NZTA’s Standards and Guidelines framework encompasses a wide range of operational policy and standards. The Standards and Guidelines Catalogue allows you to search for individual resources by title, key words, discipline or using a range of document attributes.

NZTA Standards and Guidelines Catalogue [XLSX, 439 KB]

Note: New standards developed from July 2024 must use the following document types. However, document owners of existing standards that are currently (prior to July 2024) being revised or new standards in development (prior to July 2024) may seek approval to retain the existing document type.

Understanding the framework and document hierarchy

The Our Key Documents Framework (framework) sets out the hierarchy and relationships between Transport Services’ external environment (eg, directional policy set by the Government and wider NZTA strategy such as Arataki: Our 30 year view) and our internal NZTA operational policy and standards. 

Our Key Documents Framework [PDF, 146 KB]

Definitions of standards (operational policy) types for Transport Services [PDF, 151 KB]

Standards (operational policy) hierarchy and relationships [PDF, 282 KB]