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Research Report 389 Cycle safety: reducing the crash risk

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Category: Safety, security and public health , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

Cycling is a sustainable mode of travel and an alternative to motor vehicle trips, particularly for shorter trips. However, the risk of crashing while cycling is typically higher than while travelling in a motor vehicle. To create a safer

#17-20 Updated Risk management practice guide (minimum standard Z/44)

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Category: Technical advice note | Audiences: Road controlling authorities, Road traffic engineers & consultants, Roading contractors

This practice guide (which also serves as a minimum standard for outsourced contracts) has been developed to promote a consistent and uniform approach to risk management services, the NZ Transport Agency and our contracts. It has been revised by the Risk and Assurance team in consultation with the Enterprise PMO to reflect the current Transport Agency approach to risk.

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

assessing relative risks to receiving waterbodies using estimates of copper and zinc from road traffic and nonroad (urban) sources. Risk levels are evaluated using contaminant strength and receiving environment sensitivity scores with streams/rivers

Research Report 148 Risk assessment methods in road network evaluation

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Category: Natural hazard risk management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

will optimise the risk reduction attained for a given expenditure, is also described. Keywords: accidents, ashfall, earthquake, evaluation, ice, lahar, mitigation, modelling, natural hazards, New Zealand, risk, risk assessment, roads, road closure, snow, traffic, volcanic events

#23-05 Geotechnical slope risk assessments, remedial design, and maintenance guidance

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Category: Technical advice note | Audiences: Road traffic engineers & consultants, Roading contractors

This note is to advise the release of New Zealand Country Amendment to NSW RMS Guide to Slope Risk Analysis and the Rockfall Protection Structures design and maintenance guidance documents.

#22-11 Safe System audit guidelines

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Category: Technical advice note | Audiences: Road controlling authorities, Road traffic engineers & consultants, Roading contractors

This note is to advise that the Safe System audit guidelines have been updated.