NLTP - National Land Transport Programme

Research, education and training | June 2007

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Introduction

Land Transport NZ’s statutory functions include the promoting of land transport sustainability, promoting safe transport, and funding research, education and training (RET) activities, as provided for by section 69 the Land Transport Management Act 2003 (LTMA). In addition, section 21 of the LTMA provides for Land Transport NZ to approve funding for RET activities up to a maximum amount that has been approved by the Minister of Transport for the programme.

In accordance with these legislative provisions, Land Transport NZ has, for the first time, developed a full RET programme for the 2007/08 year.

All of the activities in the RET programme have been planned by Land Transport NZ, are in alignment with strategies already developed or being developed, and are to be delivered by external parties under contract to Land Transport NZ.

The LTMA specifies that the programme must be approved by the Minster of Transport, that it must be published in the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP), and that it is subject to compliance with the procurement procedures specified in Section 25.

A summary of the allocation for the RET programme for 2007/08 is contained in table 1 below.

Table 1: 2007/08 research, education and training programme

RET category	2007/08 funding
Research	$4,470,000
2007/08 new projects	$2,025,165
Committed funding	$1,353,150
RIMS group	$150,000
Directed research	$771,685
Research programme management	$170,000
Education	$20,189,100
Existing activities	$17,093,100
New activities	$3,096,000
Training	$1,052,500
Existing activities	$410,000
New activities	$642,500
2007/08 RET programme total	$25,711,600

Research

The research aspect of the RET programme has a strong strategic context and programming history. It is the research programme through which Land Transport NZ commissions innovative research that contributes towards making New Zealand’s land transport system more integrated, safer, more responsive and sustainable. The research is contracted out to external researchers in accordance with Land Transport NZ’s Research Strategy under the key topic areas of asset management, natural hazard risk management, safety and personal security, environmental effects, travel behaviour change, traffic management and sustainable land transport.

Research programme funding allocations are made against these seven key topic areas. A target allocation for each is determined by the Land Transport NZ Board and published in Land Transport NZ’s Research Strategy. Allocations for the 2007/08 year against the targets are provided in table 2 below. Directed research funding will target gaps in the key topic areas.

Table 2: 2007/08 research programme allocations against target allocations

Key topic area	Target allocation (% of funding)	2007/08 funding allocations (%)
Asset management	30-40	39
Risk management	1-5	6
Safety and personal security	5-15	15
Environmental effects	15-20	8
Travel behaviour	10-25	15
Network management	5-15	8
Sustainable land transport	10-25	9

Land Transport NZ’s Research Strategy can be viewed at: http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/research/strategy.html and the research funding process can be viewed at: http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/research/funding-process.html.

Education and training

The education and training components of the RET programme are a collection of activities from a range of other programmes along with some new initiatives to address the wider objectives of the NZTS. These activities are managed by Land Transport NZ, are national, and are contracted out to external service deliverers. They include national advertising on land transport-related issues, national promotion of walking and cycling and other land transport-related issues, nationally managed school-based education on land transport issues, and other land transport education and training eg, professional development support associated with community-focused activities, bursaries for post-graduate studies, and support of land transport-related academic programmes. (Community programmes, which are managed and delivered at the local level by approved organisations, are now included in the main NLTP.)

Some education and training activities in the RET programme, such as the University Masters and Bachelor degree programmes, were historically funded as part of the research programme, and some, such as TV advertising for road safety, were historically funded as part of the Safety Administration Programme or through Land Transport NZ’s or the Authority’s LTP. Other education and training activities in the RET programme are new, particularly those addressing sustainable land transport issues.

Land Transport NZ’s Programme and funding manual RET work categories

Work category 811 provides for research activities managed by Land Transport NZ and conducted in the following areas in accordance with Land Transport NZ’s research strategy: asset management, natural hazard risk management, safety and personal security, environmental effects, travel behaviour change, traffic management and sustainable land transport.

Work category 812 provides for national education and training activities managed by Land Transport NZ. The activities, which are contracted out to external service deliverers, include national advertising on land transport-related issues, national promotion of walking and cycling and other land transport-related issues, nationally managed school-based education on land transport issues, and other land transport education and training eg, professional development support associated with community-focused activities, bursaries for postgraduate studies, and support of land transport-related academic programmes.

Education and training activities managed and delivered at the local level are included in the NLTP under the community programmes work category rather than in the research, education and training activity class (apart from some transitional activities for the 2007/08 year). Advice and assistance to approved organisations is part of the Land Transport NZ programme management activity class rather than the research, education and training activity class. And internal training is part of Land Transport NZ’s costs and expenses.

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Organisation	Project title	Total NLTA funding ($000)	Previous NLTA funding ($000)	2007/08 NLTA ($000)	2008/09 NLTA ($000)	2009/10 NLTA ($000)
Research
Committed - existing actvities
Asset management
Transit New Zealand	The Design of Stabilised Pavements in New Zealand	711.0	347.0	364.0	-	-
Transit New Zealand	Compliance Testing using the Falling Weight Deflectometer for Pavement Construction, Rehabilitation and Area Wide Treatments	102.0	67.0	35.0	-	-
Transit New Zealand	What Asphalt Surfacing Should be Used and How to Ensure it Meets its Design Life	190.0	95.0	70.0	25.0	-
University of Canterbury	Tyre/road contact stress distributions measured and modeled in three coordinate directions	129.0	82.0	47.0	-	-
Opus Central Laboratories	The use of risk analysis to optimise pavement design	65.0	35.0	30.0	-	-
Fulton Hogan Limited	Investigating the Contribution of Sealing Chip Application Rates to the Early Failure of Chip Seals	78.6	28.0	28.6	22.0	-
Risk management
Opus Central Laboratories	More effective anti-icing treatments using risk analysis	70.0	7.0	63.0	-	-
Under procurement	Disaster preparedness and land transport planning: quantifying the impacts on the community	120.0	40.0	80.0	-	-
Safety and personal security
Opus Central Laboratories	Crash Rate Relationships for Quantifying the Safety Improvement Potential of Road Networks	118.6	88.8	29.8	-	-
ARRB	Fatigue Engineering Countermeasures in New Zealand	74.0	47.0	27.0	-	-
TERNZ Ltd	Distractive Effects of Cellphone Use	76.0	38.0	38.0	-	-
Opus Central Laboratories	Improved delineation: A new method of assessing the effect of better delineation on driving	143.0	27.0	100.0	16.0	-
Environmental effects
Fulton Hogan Limited	Long Term Dust Suppression using the OTTA Seal Technique	143.6	106.2	37.4	-	-
Transit New Zealand	The affect of adding recycled glass on the performance of basecourse aggregate	65.0	45.0	20.0	-	-
Opus Central Laboratories	Environmental Effects of Emulsions	95.0	77.0	18.0	-	-
NZTPDB	New Zealand Transport Assessment guidelines	45.0	30.0	15.0	-	-
Travel behaviour
Beca Infrastructure	Before and After Studies - implementation new/improved pedestrian facilities	151.0	98.5	52.5	-	-
MWH New Zealand Ltd	Reliability of Use Predictions for New Cycling Facilities	102.0	72.0	30.0	-	-
Pinnacle Research	Exploring methods of building sustained participation in cycle commuting	203.0	100.5	102.5	-	-
Network management
Opus Central Laboratories	Evidential Based Guidelines for Temporary Speed Limits	80.0	60.0	20.0	-	-
Hyder Consulting	Framework for a national ITS architecture	107.5	72.0	35.5	-	-
Sustainable land transport
Steer Davies Gleave	Agglomeration benefits for New Zealand transport appraisal	98.8	49.0	49.8	-	-
Under procurement	Urban design for sustainable land transport	100.0	40.0	60.0	-	-
Cat 2 - new activities
Asset management
MWH/ University of Auckland	Rationalisation of the strength definition and quantification of NZ roads based on falling weight deflectometer tests (FWD)	90.0	-	60.0	30.0	-
Bartley Consultants Ltd	Abrasion resistance of aggregates in asphalt	68.5	-	68.5	-	-
Opus Central Laboratories	Design moisture condition guidelines for pavement design and material assessment	75.0	-	60.0	15.0	-
Opus International Consultants, Central Laboratories	Resealing strategies to increase seal life and prevent seal layer instability	135.0	-	45.0	90.0	-
Opus Central Laboratories	The influence of binder rise in reducing typre-road friction	67.5	-	42.5	25.0	-
Opus Central Laboratories	Long life porous asphalt	130.0	-	95.0	10.0	25.0
Opus Central Laboratories	Multi-grade bitumens	115.0	-	100.0	15.0	-
Opus Central Laboratories	Influence of surface treatments on the service lives of concrete bridges	40.0	-	40.0	-	-
Pavespec Ltd	Development of a basecourse/sub base design criterion	100.4	-	75.4	25.0	-
Pavespec Ltd	Pavement thickness design charts derived from rut depth models	96.0	-	70.0	26.0	-
RIMS Group	Funding allocation to RIMS Group	-	-	150.0	-	-
Risk management
Opus International Consultants	Earthquake performance of long span arch culverts (stage 2)	80.0	-	80.0	-	-
Safety and personal security
TERNZ Ltd	School bus safety	155.0	-	72.0	83.0	-
TERNZ Ltd	The usability and safety of audio tactile profiled roadmarkings	71.0	-	71.0	-	-
Beca Infrastructure	Rural crash prediction models - next generation	135.0	-	135.0	-	-
Opus Central Laboratories	Improved effectiveness and innovation for audio tactile profiled roadmarkings	120.0	-	60.0	60.0	-
Environmental effects
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Science Ltd	Enhancing the control of contaminants from New Zealand’s roads	169.7	-	96.5	73.2	-
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Science Ltd	Cold in-situ recycling of PAH-contaminated roads using foam bitumen/cement stabilisation methods	90.5	-	90.5	-	-
Travel behaviour
TERNZ Ltd	Overcoming barriers to cycling to and from school	79.7	-	76.0	3.7	-
NZTPDB	National travel profiling - (a) Description of daily travel patterns	45.0	-	45.0	-	-
Pinnacle Research and Policy Ltd	Auditing public transport accessibility in New Zealand	91.0	-	91.0	-	-
Booz Allen Hamilton	Appraisal of factors influencing public transport patronage	116.0	-	116.0	-	-
Network management
University of Canterbury	Effectiveness of incident management on network reliability - Stage 2	170.0	-	90.0	80.0	-
Opus International, Central Laboratories	Minimum design parameters for cycle connectivity	134.5	-	89.0	45.5	-
Opus Central Laboratories	Improved rate-of-rotation design limits	110.0	-	60.0	50.0	-
Sustainable land transport
MWH New Zealand Ltd	Integrated and sustainable transportation and urban planning : How to solve the gap between ‘best practice’ and ‘business as usual’?	85.0	-	85.0	-	-
Hyder Consulting	The implications of discount rate reductions on transport investments and sustainable transport futures	111.8	-	111.8	-	-
Research
External deliverers	Editing and publishing of research programme newsletters and reports	-	-	170.0	-	-
Various	Directed research funding allocation	-	-	771.7	-	-
Education
Committed - existing actvities
Education
External deliverer	RoadSense - Ata Haere	-	-	2,000.0	-	-
Advertising agencies	Advertising for safe use of the land transport system	-	-	13,982.0	-	-
External deliverer	Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP)	-	-	120.0	-	-
External deliverer	Used car assessment programme – Used Car Safety Rating (UCSR)	-	-	30.0	-	-
External deliverer	Used car assessment programme – Vehicle data for website (Red Books)	-	-	20.0	-	-
External deliverer	Website – Car safety and sustainability information	-	-	150.0	-	-
Various community groups	Transitional Community Programme Funding	-	-	544.1	-	-
Safe with Age NZ	Safe with Age Programme	-	-	247.0	-	-
Cat 2 - new activities
Education
External deliverer	Advertising for sustainable use of the land transport system	-	-	1,500.0	-	-
External deliverer	Development of a Walkwise Programme	-	-	250.0	-	-
External deliverer	“Getting There” Information Centre	-	-	150.0	-	-
External deliverer	“Getting There”Workforce Development Action Plan	-	-	100.0	-	-
External deliverer	Walking & Cycling Model Communities	-	-	150.0	-	-
External deliverer	Road Controlling Authorities Benchmarking Programme	-	-	125.0	-	-
External deliverer	Strengthening User Group Networks Programme	-	-	320.0	-	-
External deliverer	Long-distance Cycle Networks Investigation Project	-	-	25.0	-	-
External deliverer	Expansion of road user training and education related to pedestrians and cyclists	-	-	200.0	-	-
External deliverer	Bikewise	-	-	276.0	-	-
Training
Committed - existing actvities
Training
University of Auckland	Masters Degree Programme	-	-	160.0	-	-
University of Canterbury	Masters Degree Programme	-	-	160.0	-	-
NZIHT	Bachelor Degree Programme	-	-	60.0	-	-
Universities of Auckland and Canterbury	Engineering scholarships/awards to Universities	-	-	30.0	-	-
Cat 2 - new activities
Training
InfraTrain	Training in pavement construction	-	-	500.0	-	-
Andrew Justice Scholarship	Mechanical Engineering Study	-	-	65.0	-	-
External deliverer	Foundation Certificate in Injury Prevention	-	-	37.5	-	-
External deliverer	Professional development for Co-ordinators	-	-	20.0	-	-
External deliverer	Implementing Land Transport NZ’s Training Strategy	-	-	20.0	-	-

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