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Pedestrian planning and design guide

Published: | Category: Walking & cycling , Planning, design, funding, building, maintenance of the transport network , Guidance for specialists | Audiences: Road traffic engineers & consultants, Walkers & cyclists

The Pedestrian planning and design guide is New Zealand's comprehensive official guide to planning and design for walking. It sets out ways to improve New Zealand’s walking environment.

Pedestrian Network Guidance 2021

The new Pedestrian Network Guidance is coming soon, until then please continue using our Pedestrian planning and design guide.

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  • Published: October 2009

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  1. Pedestrian planning guide
  2. Pedestrian planning and design guide — 188 pages, 9.1 MB
  3. Introduction — 11 pages, 917 KB
  4. The planning and policy context — 8 pages, 1.1 MB
  5. Pedestrian characteristics, preferences and activity — 14 pages, 1.6 MB
  6. Community walkability — 6 pages, 1.8 MB
  7. Approaches to providing for pedestrians — 6 pages, 1.1 MB
  8. Pedestrian network components — 26 pages, 4.8 MB
  9. The pedestrian network planning process — 28 pages, 2.1 MB
  10. Footpaths — 24 pages, 5 MB
  11. Crossings — 30 pages, 5.3 MB
  12. Measures to guide pedestrians — 8 pages, 1.8 MB
  13. Lighting the pedestrian network — 4 pages, 750 KB
  14. Maintaining the pedestrian network — 6 pages, 1.2 MB
  15. Post-design issues — 8 pages, 545 KB
  16. Appendices — 22 pages, 360 KB
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