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Research Report 625 Use of technology to measure and improve freight movements

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The advance of technology has created several rich sources of data to analyse road network performance and freight patterns.

Research Report 596 Understanding trends in roadside air quality

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The primary aim of this research was to improve the understanding of how vehicle emissions are trending over time in New Zealand and how this relates to observed trends in local air quality.

Research Report 585 Risk assessment of road stormwater run-off

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This report describes a GIS-based road stormwater screening (RSS) model developed to upgrade and widen application of the NZ Transport Agency’s 2007 vehicle kilometres travelled screening tool.

Research Report 503 A natural environment and cultural asset management system for New Zealands state highway network: towards a practical concept and application

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

Internationally there is an increasing expectation for roadways to have a minimal environmental footprint, to express local environmental and cultural context, and to protect or respect natural, historical and landscape assets – in addition to being …

Research Report 515 The effect of rainfall and contaminants on road pavement skid resistance

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audiences: Communities, General

This research project, which was undertaken between 2003 and 2006, aimed to improve the understanding of the effect that environmental factors (eg rainfall and detritus) have on the variation of measured skid resistance, both in the short and longer …

Research report 493 Field evaluation of media filtration stormwater treatment devices

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This study evaluated the performance of media filtration stormwater treatment devices for removing suspended solids, copper and zinc from road runoff.

Research Report 457 Determination of personal exposure to traffic pollution while travelling by different modes

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This purpose of this project is to assess the comparative risk associated with exposure to traffic pollution when travelling via different transport modes in New Zealand cities.