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

Preface

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The need for this guideline was identified by a number of local authority engineers who approached Land Transport New Zealand (Land Transport NZ) for assistance. They complained that their district plans did not contain the appropriate provisions to allow them to adequately manage road safety on their networks.

As detailed in section 2.1 of this guideline, Land Transport NZ undertook a project to identify whether there was a problem, and given the problem, what was the best solution. An industry working group determined that there was a problem and that a guideline was the best way forward.

During the course of the development of the guideline, the working group realised that the guideline should cover all the objectives of the New Zealand Transport Strategy (NZTS), not just one component of one of its objectives. However, the working group noted that there are a lot of data available on road safety effects but there are very little data available on the other objectives of the NZTS.

Therefore, the working group made a tactical decision to complete this guideline in the knowledge that it is only part of the equation. It may be some considerable time before a body of research has been developed around the other objectives of the NZTS. When that has happened, then a complete guideline will be written, and this present guideline will form just one chapter of that complete guideline.

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