Displaying 1 - 10 results of 97 for "noise sensitive"
Published: September 2015
Category:
Planning, design, funding, building, maintenance of the transport network
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Guidance for specialists
| Audiences:
General,
Road traffic engineers & consultants
Noise sensitive activities such as a new residential building near to an existing state highway can potentially be affected by roadtraffic noise. This could cause annoyance and sleep disturbance potentially resulting in adverse health effects. In
Published: 22 October 2015
Category:
Technical advice note
| Audiences:
Road controlling authorities,
Road traffic engineers & consultants,
Roading contractors
Release of the Guide to the management of effects on noise sensitive land use near to the state highway network.
Published: March 2016
Category:
Planning, design, funding, building, maintenance of the transport network
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Guidance for specialists
| Audience:
Road traffic engineers & consultants
state highway may be affected by traffic noise. Other noise sensitive activities such as schools, hospitals, hotels, places of worship, motels and offices can also be similarly affected. Managing the effects of road traffic noise reduces sleep and
Published: August 2007
Category:
Environment & resource planning
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Manuals
| Audiences:
Land owners,
Road traffic engineers & consultants,
Roading contractors
The Planning policy manual (PPM) sets out Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency's policy and approach to integrated planning.
Published: May 2008
Category:
Vehicles
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Specifications
| Audiences:
Certifiers,
Vehicle inspectors & inspecting organisations
These specifications must be met where a vehicle inspector chooses to use a noise meter to assess exhaust noise as part of the WoF inspection. This form can now be found on the NZ Transport Agencys vehicle inspection portal.
Published: 2001
Category:
Environmental impacts of land transport
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Research programme
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Research & reports
| Audience:
General
A study, carried out in 1998–2000, investigated if a traffic noise lvel of 55dBA, the level allowed in the 1994 Transit New Zealand Road traffic noise guidelines , was an acceptable limit in New Zealand for areas that previously had low traffic
Published: 29 November 2022
Category:
Technical advice note
| Audiences:
Road controlling authorities,
Road traffic engineers & consultants,
Roading contractors
This note is to advise that the Guideline for preparing an environmental management plan (EMP) has been published.
Published: 1991
Category:
Environmental impacts of land transport
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Research programme
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Research & reports
| Audience:
General
Reliable techniques have been used in a number of countries throughout the world for some years now for the prediction, measurement, assessment and control of road traffic noise. Techniques for the prediction of traffic noise are all based on the
Published: November 2011
Category:
Environmental impacts of land transport
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Research programme
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Research & reports
| Audience:
General
Many road designations have conditions with respect to noise that require that when the road is completed, measurements will be undertaken to prove that the performance standards of those conditions have been fulfilled. However all measurements are
Part of the ‘Urban design’ resource.
Urban design involves the arrangement and design of buildings, public spaces, transports, systems, services, and amenities.
