IPENZ TRANSPORTATION GROUP

New Zealand Sites

• Ministry of Transport
  - Info about Govt policy and reports 
• Transit New Zealand
  - Info about State Highways (incl. maps) and highway projects
• Land Transport NZ
  - Govt agency responsible for land transport funding, safety and sustainability.
• Trafinz
  - group for local government traffic & parking issues
• Signals NZ User Group (SNUG)
  - IPENZ-TG sub-group for those designing and managing traffic signals
• NZ Trips & Parking Database Bureau (NZTPDB)
  - IPENZ-TG sub-group that maintains a database for reliable trip and parking demand data
• NZ Police
  - unfortunately not much on transport 
• NZ Government
  - an index to other Government sites 
• NZ Automobile Association (AA)
  - national organisation for private motorists, lots of info 
• NZ Road Transport Forum (RTF)
  - national body for promotion of trucking interests 
• NZ Cycling Advocates Network (CAN)
  - a national body for the promotion of cycling and cycle facilities 
• Living Streets Aotearoa (LSA)
  - national pedestrian/walking advocates 
• Bus & Coach Association (BCA)
  - national body for bus operators & suppliers 
• EECA's Travel Planning Programme
  - useful info and contacts on alternatives to motor vehicle transport
• NZ RoadMarkers Federation
  - for those involved/interested in road marking / delineation 
• NZ Utilities Advisory Group
  - for information on Working Together in the Road - Best Practice for the Way Forward 

New Zealand Consultants

• Beca
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• City Design
(now part of GHD)
• City Solutions (Christchurch)
• Connell Wagner
• Gabites Porter
• GHD
• Maunsell
• Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH) NZ
• Opus International Consultants
• Sigma Consultants
• Sinclair Knight Merz
• Steve Abley
• Traffic Design Group
• URS Consultants
• Wes Edwards Consulting

New Zealand Contractors & Suppliers

• 3M NZ
• Fulton Hogan
• HTS Group (Traffic Signals)
• Scott Technical Instruments Ltd
• Map Data Sciences NZ

New Zealand Training Institutions

• NZ Institute of Highway Technology
• University of Auckland, Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• University of Canterbury, Dept of Civil Engineering
• The Open Polytechnic of NZ

Other Sites

• Cycling technical issues
  - Relevant local info on cycle facility planning, design, and research
• "Surfing the net" articles
  - Dave's articles in New Zealand Roadmarking News
• Previous Roundabout website articles
  - Recent Roundabout links
• Road Safety links
  - Our update of a list of links originally appearing in the ITE Transportation Safety Council Newsletter, July 1999

Other Worldwide Sites - Directories

• roads.co.nz
  - Sponsored by REAAA, provides a "one stop shop" for all topical roading matters in NZ
• The Princeton Site

- the most comprehensive on the web.  A definitive directory of transportation resources, albeit with a strong US bias.
• RoadSource

- a one stop web site containing information relating to all aspects of road and traffic engineering, including conferences, institutions, individuals plus suppliers of equipment 
• Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at Leeds 

- a very extensive list of worldwide links 
• Traffic Network
  - a new site, similar to RoadSource, containing information on News, Events, Experts, Research, and so on. 
• Transport Web
  - an extensive site, covering all forms of transport
• Traffic-related links
  - a new list created by WebGuy@TrafficEngineering.com from the ITE Traffic Engineering Council email discussion group.

Other Worldwide Sites - Organisations

• CARRS-Q, Qld Univ of Technology
  - Australian road safety and accident research centre, based in Queensland
• ARRB Transport Research
  - Details about ARRB's resources
• Austroads
  - Australasia's Association for State Roading Authorities
• Australian Institute for Traffic Planning & Management (AITPM)

- the Oz equivalent of the IPENZ Transportation Group
• Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), US
  - the closest US equivalent of the IPENZ Transportation Group
• Institution of Highways and Transportation, UK
  - the closest UK equivalent of the IPENZ Transportation Group
• AASHTO

- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
• Chartered Insitute of Transport, UK
  - probably the largest body of transport professionals in the world
• Transportation Research Board, US
  - "Encouraging research and innovation in transportation for more than 75 years"
• VicRoads
  - find out more about a leading road safety organisation

Questions?

• ITE Traffic Engineering Council's email discussion group archive
  - search the archive of posts to this email discussion group.
• 7 ITE Council's email discussion groups
  - or join the discussion group. There are also discussion groups for transportation safety, traffic calming, transportation planning....
• ITE Florida Section TIPS (Traffic Information Program Series)
  - A document of over 80 traffic topics written in plain english to help the profession answer public enquiries.