Technical information

Passing and overtaking documents

• Passing and overtaking policy as appendix 3E within the NZ Transport Agency's Planning policy manual

• NZ Transport Agency's Provisional passing and overtaking guidelines

• Background technical report for NZ Transport Agency's New Zealand passing & overtaking policy

• Long-term framework for overtaking sight distance within Regional passing and overtaking plans: A bridge between high-level policy and localised solutions.

• Long-term framework for passing and overtaking treatments (p.162) within appendix 3E of the NZ Transport Agency's Planning policy manual.

• Toolkit of options (p.163) within appendix 3E of the NZ Transport Agency's Planning policy manual.

Research

NZ Transport Agency commissioned technical reports

• Simple screening method for slow vehicle bays, June 2008 – report and June 2009 – screening tool.

• Operational evaluation of representative passing lanes against proposed guidelines, October 2008 – report.

• Pilot study to assess passing/overtaking demand using TMS, July 2007 – report.

• SH29 Kaimai slow vehicle bays safety review – report. (available on request).

• ITS-assisted merging at passing lanes, June 2010 – report.

• Review of Economic evaluation manual’s passing lane length factors, December 2010 – report.

  • Passing lane length factors within Transport Agency's Economic evaluation manual [PDF, 95 KB] 

  • Passing lane length factors within Transport Agency's Economic evaluation manual – appendix A [PDF, 60 KB]

  • Passing lane length factors within Transport Agency's Economic evaluation manual – appendix B [PDF, 63 KB]

  • Passing lane length factors within Transport Agency's Economic evaluation manual – appendix C [XLS, 100 KB]

  • Passing lane length factors within Transport Agency's Economic evaluation manual - appendix D [XLS, 332 KB]

• NZ Transport Agency passing lane research, April 2011 – report.

NZ Transport Agency Research Programme

These reports are not downloadable from this web page. Please contact the Transport Agency Library Services directly for prices on these reports or arrange for a copy through the library inter-loan system.

• NZ Transport Agency Research Report 60: Assessing passing opportunities – literature review.

• NZ Transport Agency Research Report 89: Typical accident rates for rural passing lanes and unsealed roads.

• NZ Transport Agency Research Report 146: Assessing passing opportunities – stage 2.

• NZ Transport Agency Research Report 220: Assessing passing opportunities – stage 3.

• NZ Transport Agency Research Report 245: Assessment of rural road simulation modelling tools.

• NZ Transport Agency Research Report 255: Impact on driver behaviour of overtaking lane design for NZ conditions.

Conference publications

• Passing & overtaking behaviour on New Zealand two-lane state highways: policy to practice – Paper, 23rd ARRB Conference Adelaide, Australia, 2006.

• Regional passing and overtaking plans: A bridge between high-level policy and localised solutions – Paper, NZIHT Conference, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2011.

• Preliminary investigations into ITS-assisted merging to improve the capacity of 2+1 lanes and high-volume passing lanes. Paper, 25th ARRB Conference, Perth, Australia, 2012.