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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.

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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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