Environmental technical areas

Air quality management and monitoring of emissions from vehicles and the effects of land transport infrastructure projects, maintenance and operations.

Biodiversity is the variety of life forms, providing people with the fundamental processes and products needed to survive.

Climate change mitigation and adaptation work at NZTA, as well as climate change related research work and tools available to project teams.

Coastal processes have impacts on infrastructure, as well as infrastructure having impacts on the coastal environment.

Managing contaminants in soil, which could pose a threat to human health or the environment.

Protecting and conserving New Zealand’s heritage and minimising the impacts of our transport system activities on heritage places.

Assessing and mitigating transport-related noise and vibration and its impacts on people and communities.

Minimising resource use and optimising resource recovery, which helps minimise environmental impacts, contributes to reducing carbon emissions and has the potential to cut costs.

Enhancing the positive effects and minimising the negative effects of our activities on people and communities.

Protecting water quality through constructing or maintaining stormwater assets and controlling erosion and sediment.

Infrastructure sustainability rating schemes provide a consistent method of assessing, achieving, and communicating the positive environmental and sustainability outcomes associated with infrastructure projects.

Multi-modal transport planning and design guidance focusing on walking, cycling and public transport.

Ensuring quality urban design principles and landscape principles inform the planning, design, implementation and management of our land transport network.