Published: May 2025 | Category: Planning, design, funding, building, maintenance of the transport network , Guidance for specialists , Environment & resource planning | Audiences: Road controlling authorities, Road traffic engineers & consultants, Roading contractors
The Carbon reduction opportunities for road infrastructure – visual guide contributes to NZTA’s commitments to deliver land transport infrastructure in a resource-efficient manner, which helps minimise environmental impacts, and supports wider efforts to integrate resource efficiency into project delivery decision making processes to drive resource efficient, cost-effective and low-carbon design.
This guide supports the implementation and integration of NZTA’s policies and strategies relating to resource efficiency and decarbonisation of the New Zealand road network, and the government’s emissions reduction and land transport legislation and policies.
The guide supports designers involved in capital and maintenance roading projects in New Zealand to integrate resource efficiency and carbon reduction into the project lifecycle. It contains potential carbon and cost reduction opportunities currently available in New Zealand in a simple, visual format for designers to navigate. It aims to support the roading sector to implement practical, cost-effective embodied carbon reduction strategies, fostering industry collaboration and accelerating New Zealand’s transition toward a net-zero future.
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Climate change mitigation
Resource efficiency and waste minimisation
Carbon reduction opportunities for road infrastructure – visual guide [PDF, 5.8 MB]
This presentation by Beca and NZTA gives an insight into the purpose and background to this guide, talks through the methodology and how the guide was developed, and gives an overview of what’s in the guide, including specific examples of initiatives and case studies.
