Managing road safety and efficiency under the Resource Management Act 1991: The way forward

Appendix 3 - reference material

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References

Reference to relevant documents provides a good scope of standards and guideline material. A great deal of work has been undertaken by parties such as Transit New Zealand and Land Transport NZ to assess particular facets of road management. Some of these provide precise examples of useful district plan provisions.

A number of publications have been used in the development of this BPG. Their use is gratefully acknowledged:

Ministry for the Environment, July 2003, Drafting issues, objectives, policies and methods in regional policy statements and district plans, ME No. 482

Ministry for the Environment, June 2001, Effective and enforceable consent conditions

Ministry for the Environment, July 2000, What are the options? A guide to using section 32 of the RMA

Ministry for the Environment, October 1999, Managing vegetation disturbance activities under the RMA: The way forward – forestry and the RMA: Working paper

Ministry for the Environment, March 1999, Auditing assessment of environmental effects – a good practice guide (AEE)

Ministry for the Environment, October 1997, To notify or not to notify under the RMA

Quality planning website, www.qualityplanning.co.nz, Best practice resources

Tonkin and Taylor, May 2003, NZPI Conference – Best practice guidelines for road safety & efficiency information & district plan provisions

Transfund NZ, July 2002, Road safety & efficiency information & district plan provisions, Report No. OG/0207/165

Transfund NZ, June 2003, National land transport programme 2003/4

Transfund NZ, Feb 2000, Scoping study; roading, land use developments and safety audits, report no. RA97/6285

Transfund NZ, August 2003, website

Transit NZ, Dec 2002, Guidelines for highway landscaping

Transit NZ, Nov 1993, Advertising signs and road safety: Design and location guidelines

Transit NZ, Dec 1999, Planning policy manual

Transit New Zealand, Oct 2000, Planning policy manual no. SP/M001

Land Transport Safety Authority, October 1995, Road safety in effects-based planning: Guidelines for districts: Draft discussion document

Other relevant publications

Regional land transport strategies

Individual local state highway strategy studies

Land Transport NZ’s 10-year funding plan

Land Transport NZ guidelines, eg, RAMM manuals

Transit/Ministry of Transport publications, eg:

Guide to cycle facilities (NRB/UTC: 1985)
Guidelines for planting for road safety

Road and Traffic Standard Series:

RTS 3 – Guidelines for establishing rural selling places
RTS 6 – Guidelines for visibility at driveways
RTS 7 – Advertising signs and road safety: Design and location guidelines
RTS 13 – Road safety guidelines for service stations
RTS 17 – Guidelines for setting speed limits

Other

Australian Standard No. 4282 – 1997 control of obtrusive effects of outdoor lighting

 

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