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Research Report 370 Promoting sustainability in New Zealand's rail system

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This report presents the findings of research investigating the opportunities and barriers to promoting sustainability in New Zealand’s rail system.

Research Report 469 A wider look at how travellers value the quality and quantity of travel time

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

In the context of transport policy, travel time is widely treated in purely economic terms, with the key aim of 'saving' or reducing what is seen as unproductive travel time.

Research Report 496 Transport corridors and community structures

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This research gives a regional planning and strategic perspective of some New Zealand experience in creating transportation corridors and community structures from a planning perspective.

Research Report 489 The costs of congestion reappraised

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The purpose of this research was to develop improved approaches to assessing the costs of urban traffic congestion and to make corresponding estimates of the costs of congestion in Auckland (New Zealand).

Research Report 458 A social responsibility framework for New Zealand's land transport sector

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

Since the implementation of the Land Transport Management Act 2003, public sector land transport organisations in New Zealand have had the obligation to be socially and environmentally responsible, either as one of their organisational objectives (NZ…

Research report 452 Predicting walkability

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This research provides a number of mathematical formulas for predicting the quality of the walking environment from the perspective of the user using operational and physical variables.

Research report 451 Tools for assessing exposure to land transport emissions

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Exposure to elevated concentrations of road traffic air pollutants mainly occurs within a few hundred metres of major roads, or while travelling in road vehicles.

Research report 440 Reducing pedestrian delay at traffic signals

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

Since 2000, the benefits of walking as a mode of travel have been recognised by the New Zealand government in a raft of policy statements and strategies.