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NLTP - National Land Transport Programme
Research, education and training | June 2008
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Introduction
Land Transport NZ’s statutory functions include the promoting of land transport sustainability, promoting safe transport, and funding research, education and training (RET) activities, as provided for by section 69 the Land Transport Management Act 2003 (LTMA). In addition, section 21 of the Act provides for Land Transport NZ to approve funding for RET activities up to a maximum amount that has been approved by the Minister of Transport for the programme.
In accordance with these legislative provisions, Land Transport NZ has developed a full RET programme for the
2008/09 year.
All of the activities in the RET programme have been planned by Land Transport NZ, are in alignment with
strategies already developed or being developed, and are to be delivered by external parties under contract to
Land Transport NZ.
The LTMA specifies that the programme must be approved by the Minster of Transport, that it must be published
in the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP), and that it is subject to compliance with the procurement
procedures specified in Section 25.
A summary of the allocation for the RET programme for 2007/08 is contained in table 1 below.
Table 1: 2008/09 research, education and training (RET) programme
| RET category | 2008/09 funding |
|---|---|
| Research | $4,646,000 |
| 2008/09 new initiatives | $3,239,547 |
| Committed funding | $1,001,045 |
| Directed research | $259,408 |
| Research programme management | $146,000 |
| Education | $21,874,145 |
| Training | $1,057,500 |
| 2008/09 RET programme total | $27,577,625 |
Research
The research aspect of the RET programme has a strong strategic context and programming history. It is the research programme through which Land Transport NZ commissions innovative research that contributes to making New Zealand’s land transport system more integrated, safer, more responsive and sustainable. The research is contracted out to external researchers in accordance with Land Transport NZ’s research strategy under the key topic areas of environmental effects, sustainable land transport, travel behaviour, safety and personal security, risk management, traffic management and asset management.
Research programme funding allocations are made against these seven key topic areas. A target allocation for each is determined by the Land Transport NZ Board and published in Land Transport NZ’s research strategy.
Allocations for the 2008/09 year against the targets are provided in table 2 on page 158. Directed research funding will target gaps in the key topic areas.
Table 2: 2008/09 research programme allocations against target allocations
| Key topic area Target allocation | (% of funding) |
2008/09 funding allocations (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental effects | 15-20 |
4 |
| Sustainable land transport | 10-25 |
30 |
| Travel behaviour | 10-25 |
11 |
| Safety and personal security | 5-15 |
19 |
| Risk management | 1-5 |
3 |
| Network management | 5-15 |
8 |
| Asset management | 30-40 |
26 |
Land Transport NZ’s research strategy can be viewed at: www.landtransport.govt.nz/research/strategy.html and the research funding process can be viewed at: www.landtransport.govt.nz/research/funding-process.html.
Education and training
The education and training components of the RET programme are a collection of activities from a range of other programmes along with some new initiatives to address the wider objectives of the NZTS. These activities are managed by Land Transport NZ, are national, and are contracted out to external service deliverers. They include national advertising on land transport-related issues, national promotion of walking and cycling and other land transport related issues, nationally managed school-based education on land transport issues, and other land transport education and training eg, professional development support associated with community-focused activities, bursaries for post-graduate studies, and support of land transport-related academic programmes. (Community programmes, which are managed and delivered at the local level by approved organisations, are now included in the main NLTP.)
Land Transport NZ’s Programme, planning and
funding manual RET work categories
Work category 811 provides for research activities managed by Land Transport NZ and conducted in the following
areas in accordance with Land Transport NZ’s research strategy: environmental effects, sustainable land transport,
safety and personal security, travel behaviour change, risk management, network management and asset
management.
Work category 812 provides for national education and training activities managed by Land Transport NZ. The
activities, which are contracted out to external service deliverers, include national advertising on land transportrelated
issues, national promotion of walking and cycling and other land transport related issues, nationally
managed school-based education on land transport issues, and other land transport education and training eg,
professional development support associated with community-focused activities, bursaries for post-graduate
studies, and support of land transport related academic programmes.
Education and training activities managed and delivered at the local level are included in the NLTP under the community programmes work category rather than in the research, education and training activity class. Advice and assistance to approved organisations is part of the Land Transport NZ programme management activity class rather than the research, education and training activity class. And internal training is part of Land Transport NZ’s costs and expenses.
| Research organisation | Project title | Total NLTA funding ($000) |
Previous NLTA funding ($000) |
2008/09 NLTA ($000) |
2009/10 NLTA ($000) |
2010/11 NLTA ($000) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research | ||||||
| Committed - existing activities | ||||||
| Environmental effects | ||||||
| National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Science Ltd (NIWA) | Enhancing the control of contaminants from New Zealand's roads |
169.7 |
96.5 |
73.2 |
- |
- |
| Sustainable land transport | ||||||
| CJN Technologies | Climate change effects on the land transport network |
250.0 |
150.0 |
100.0 |
- |
- |
| IMISE and Kissling Consulting | Improving commercial vehicle fuel efficiency monitoring |
90.0 |
50.0 |
40.0 |
- |
- |
| Travel behaviour | ||||||
| Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Ltd (TERNZ) | Overcoming barriers to cycling to and from school |
109.3 |
70.5 |
38.9 |
- |
- |
| Safety and personal security | ||||||
| Opus Central Laboratories | Improved delineation: a new method of assessing the effect of better delineation on driving |
143.0 |
127.0 |
16.0 |
- |
- |
| Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Ltd (TERNZ) | School bus safety |
155.0 |
72.0 |
83.0 |
- |
- |
| Beca Infrastructure | Rural crash prediction models - next generation |
165.0 |
109.0 |
56.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Improved effectiveness and innovation for audio tactile profiled roadmarkings |
150.0 |
60.0 |
90.0 |
- |
- |
| Network management | ||||||
| University of Canterbury | Effectiveness of incident management on network reliability - Stage 2 |
170.0 |
90.0 |
80.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Minimum design parameters for cycle connectivity |
134.5 |
89.0 |
45.5 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Improved rate-of-rotation design limits |
110.0 |
60.0 |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| Asset management | ||||||
| Transit New Zealand | What Asphalt Surfacing Should be Used and How to Ensure it Meets its Design Life |
190.0 |
165.0 |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| University of Canterbury | Tyre/road contact stress distributions measured and modeled in three coordinate directions |
129.0 |
104.5 |
24.5 |
- |
- |
| Fulton Hogan Limited | Investigating the Contribution of Sealing Chip Application Rates to the Early Failure of Chip Seals |
78.6 |
56.6 |
22.0 |
- |
- |
| MWH New Zealand Ltd/ University of Auckland | Rationalisation of the strength definition and quantification of NZ roads based on falling weight deflectometer tests (FWD) |
90.0 |
60.0 |
30.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Design moisture condition guidelines for pavement design and material assessment |
75.0 |
60.0 |
15.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Resealing strategies to increase seal life and prevent seal layer instability |
135.0 |
45.0 |
90.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | The influence of binder rise in reducing tyre-road friction |
67.5 |
42.5 |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Long life porous asphalt |
130.0 |
95.0 |
10.0 |
25.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Multi-grade bitumens |
134.0 |
100.0 |
8.0 |
8.0 |
18.0 |
| Pavespec Ltd | Development of a basecourse/sub base design criterion |
100.4 |
75.4 |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| Pavespec Ltd | Pavement thickness design charts derived from rut depth models |
96.0 |
42.0 |
54.0 |
- |
- |
| Category 2 - new activities | ||||||
| Environmental effects | ||||||
| University of Canterbury | Determination of personal exposure to traffic pollution while travelling by different modes |
127.9 |
- |
73.1 |
54.8 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Environmental and financial costs and benefits of warm asphalts |
43.0 |
- |
28.0 |
15.0 |
- |
| Sustainable land transport | ||||||
| University of Otago/University of Auckland/Massey University/Synergia | Health effects of intervening in the trip to work |
20.5 |
- |
8.2 |
8.2 |
4.1 |
| NIWA | Integrated local environmental and health impact analysis of land transport emissions |
135.2 |
- |
82.0 |
53.2 |
- |
| Quigley and Watts/Martin Ward | Applying health impact assessment to land transport studies: how, when and why? |
65.0 |
- |
65.0 |
- |
- |
| Massey University | Public transport network planning: an Australasian guide to best practice |
95.0 |
- |
95.0 |
- |
- |
| Fitzgerald Applied Sociology | Addressing the social impacts of poor access to transport in rural New Zealand |
125.0 |
- |
125.0 |
- |
- |
| TERNZ | Low emission, fuel efficient vehicles |
71.0 |
- |
71.0 |
- |
- |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | Demand-responsiveness passenger transport in low demand situations |
115.0 |
- |
115.0 |
- |
- |
| Massey University | Attitudes and behaviour in relation to public transport: a study of trends in passenger transport usage in New Zealand's non-metropolitan regions |
89.0 |
- |
89.0 |
- |
- |
| Ian Wallis Associates | Appraisal of the effectiveness of increased public transport funding |
88.0 |
- |
88.0 |
- |
- |
| Ian Wallis Associates | Experience with the development of off-peak public transport services |
87.0 |
- |
87.0 |
- |
- |
| Ian Wallis Associates | The costs of congestion reappraised |
98.0 |
- |
98.0 |
- |
- |
| Pinnacle Research and Policy/Capital Research Ltd | Slow zones: their impact on mode choice and travel behaviour |
59.0 |
- |
59.0 |
- |
- |
| Pinnacle Research and Policy/Ian Wallis Associates | How does central city intensification impact on people's travel behaviour? Do people live where they work and play? |
79.0 |
- |
79.0 |
- |
- |
| Pinnacle Research and Policy/Ian Wallis Associates | A wider look at how travellers value the quality and quantity of travel time |
58.0 |
- |
58.0 |
- |
- |
| Travel behaviour | ||||||
| Tau Squared Ltd | Incorporating travel time reliability in the estimation of assignment models |
50.0 |
- |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| University of Canterbury | Travel demand behaviour change with increasing fuel price as a function of affluence for a similar activity cohort |
140.0 |
- |
85.0 |
55.0 |
- |
| University of Canterbury | An assessment of the type of cycle infrastructure required to attract new cyclists |
79.1 |
- |
79.1 |
- |
- |
| Capital Research/Pinnacle Research | Improving evaluation and monitoring through better understanding of kilometres travelled and vehicle occupancy in urban areas |
73.0 |
- |
73.0 |
- |
- |
| Massey University/Otago Polytechnic | "I'll just take the car" - how can the urban environment and bicycle transportation be improved to discourage automobile use for short trips? |
118.0 |
- |
51.4 |
66.6 |
- |
| Ian Wallis Associates | Improving bus service reliability |
95.0 |
- |
95.0 |
- |
- |
| Safety and personal security | ||||||
| NZ Police | Rural drink-driving enforcement in the Southern Police District |
43.5 |
- |
43.5 |
- |
- |
| Opus International Consultants | Effectiveness of transverse road markings on reducing vehicle speeds |
68.5 |
- |
47.5 |
21.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Introduction of improved methods for measurement of the road reflection properties of road surfaces to improve safety |
115.0 |
- |
95.0 |
20.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Determining the mechanisms and types of non-motor vehicle injuries to pedestrians using the transport system, and indicated infrastructural implications |
75.0 |
- |
40.0 |
35.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Investigation of passing lane safety benefits, including upstream and downstream areas |
80.0 |
- |
65.0 |
15.0 |
- |
| TERNZ | Improving transport around schools |
96.0 |
- |
59.0 |
37.0 |
- |
| Beca Infrastructure | Gap acceptance accident prediction models |
85.9 |
- |
85.9 |
- |
- |
| Traffic Engineering Solutions | Evaluation of the C-Roundabout - a new design tool for economically improving safety and capacity at urban road junctions |
46.0 |
- |
46.0 |
- |
- |
| Traffic Engineering Solutions | Improved multi-lane roundabout designs for all road users |
121.0 |
- |
69.0 |
52.0 |
- |
| Risk management | ||||||
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland | Seismic design of NZ highway bridges under non-uniform multiple support ground excitations |
38.5 |
- |
12.9 |
16.0 |
9.6 |
| University of Canterbury | Benchmarking the readiness of Road Controlling Authorities to meet their obligations under the CDEM Act 2002 |
75.6 |
- |
28.4 |
47.1 |
- |
| RIMS Group/NAMS Group | Case studies and best practice guidelines for risk management on road networks |
65.0 |
- |
65.0 |
- |
- |
| Network management | ||||||
| GHD Ltd | Transit lane or bus lane? |
85.0 |
- |
85.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories/Fulton Hogan | Minimising traffic delay during resealing |
80.0 |
- |
65.0 |
15.0 |
- |
| Asset management | ||||||
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland | Decision tool to mitigate prestressed concrete bridge corrosion |
60.0 |
- |
30.0 |
20.0 |
10.0 |
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland | Design of prestressed concrete bridges to resist shear |
42.0 |
- |
28.0 |
4.0 |
10.0 |
| Pavespec Ltd | Development of tensile fatigue pavement design criteria for modified aggregates |
82.0 |
- |
55.5 |
26.5 |
- |
| University of Auckland | Earthquake resistant design of bridges - abutment/backfill influences on response and retrofit decisions |
30.0 |
- |
10.0 |
10.0 |
10.0 |
| University of Auckland | Retrofit assessment of bridge pile foundations |
30.0 |
- |
10.0 |
10.0 |
10.0 |
| University of Auckland/Opus Intl Consultants | Data collection and monitoring strategies for asset management of NZ road bridges |
105.0 |
- |
60.0 |
45.0 |
- |
| Pavement Management Services/R&D Consultants/University of Auckland | Enhancing the application of roughness measurement and deterioration |
130.0 |
- |
55.0 |
75.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Pavement rehabilitation initiation |
105.0 |
- |
46.0 |
59.0 |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Screening bridges for potentially high dynamic loads using profile variance |
59.0 |
- |
59.0 |
- |
- |
| Opus Central Laboratories | Concrete pile durability in South Island bridges |
123.0 |
- |
25.0 |
80.0 |
18.0 |
| Opus Central Laboratories/EDI Works | Asphalt durability |
170.0 |
- |
55.0 |
115.0 |
- |
| Transit NZ/Opus International Consultants/University of Auckland | Are chipseals waterproof enough on high volume roads? |
1,073.0 |
- |
345.0 |
498.0 |
230.0 |
| Research | ||||||
| External delivers | Editing and publishing of research programme newsletters and reports |
- |
- |
146.0 |
- |
- |
| Various | Directed research funding allocation |
- |
- |
259.4 |
- |
- |
| Education | ||||||
| Committed - existing activities | ||||||
| External deliverer | RoadSense - Ata Haere |
- |
- |
2,060.1 |
- |
- |
| Advertising agencies | Advertising for safe use of the land transport system |
- |
- |
15,672.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Advertising for sustainable use of the land transport system |
- |
- |
2,000.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Development of a Walkwise Programme |
- |
- |
250.0 |
- |
- |
| Safe with Age NZ (SWANZ) | Safe with Age Programme |
- |
- |
247.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | “Getting There” Information Centre |
- |
- |
150.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | "Getting There" Implementation Plan |
- |
- |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | "Getting There" Implementation Plan - Share the road |
- |
- |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | "Getting There" Implementation Plan - Neighbourhood travel plans |
- |
- |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Walking & Cycling Model Communities |
- |
- |
200.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Road Controlling Authorities Benchmarking Programme |
- |
- |
50.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Strengthening User Group Networks Programme |
- |
- |
400.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Long-distance Cycle Networks Investigation Project |
- |
- |
25.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Expansion of road user training and education related to pedestrians and cyclists |
- |
- |
180.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Bikewise |
- |
- |
276.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) - website |
- |
- |
150.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Used car assessment programme - Used Car Safety Rating (USCR) |
- |
- |
34.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Used car assessment programme - Vehicle data for website (Red Books) |
- |
- |
20.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Website - Car safety and sustainability information |
- |
- |
35.0 |
- |
- |
| Training | ||||||
| Committed - existing activities | ||||||
| University of Auckland | Masters Degree Programme |
- |
- |
195.0 |
- |
- |
| University of Canterbury | Masters Degree Programme |
- |
- |
195.0 |
- |
- |
| NZIHT | Bachelor Degree Programme |
- |
- |
60.0 |
- |
- |
| InfraTrain | Training in pavement construction |
- |
- |
500.0 |
- |
- |
| Andrew Justice Scholarship | Mechanical Engineering Study (offered every second year commencing 2007/08) |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Universities of Auckland and Canterbury | Engineering scholarships/awards to Universities |
- |
- |
30.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Foundation Certificate in Injury Prevention |
- |
- |
37.5 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Professional development for Co-ordinators |
- |
- |
20.0 |
- |
- |
| External deliverer | Implementing Land Transport NZ's Training Strategy |
- |
- |
20.0 |
- |
- |
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