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Wellington Regional Freight Background Report Wellington Regional Freight Background Report March 2011 Table of contents TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................................................... I 1. GOAL ........................................................................................................................................................................1 2. OBJECTIVES...........................................................................................................................................................1 3. METHODOLOGY ...................................................................................................................................................1 4. BACKGROUND.......................................................................................................................................................2 4.1 STUDIES .............................................................................................................................................................4 4.1.1 National Freight Demands Study (September 2008)....................................................................................4 4.1.2 Freight Analysis for the Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough and Tasman regions (June 2009)....................5 4.1.3 High Productivity Motor-Vehicle route studies (On-going).........................................................................5 4.1.4 Freight futures – long term sea freight scenarios (September 2010) ...........................................................6 4.1.5 The Question of Bigger Ships (August 2010) ...............................................................................................7 4.2 NATIONAL LEGISLATION , STRATEGIES AND PLANS.............................................................................................7 4.2.1 Land Transport Management Act 2003........................................................................................................7 4.2.2 Road User Charges ......................................................................................................................................8 4.2.3 National Infrastructure Plan ........................................................................................................................9 4.2.4 New Zealand Transport Strategy 2008.........................................................................................................9 4.2.5 Government Policy Statement on land transport funding 2009 ...................................................................9 4.2.6 KiwiRail Turnaround Plan.........................................................................................................................10 4.3 REGIONAL STRATEGIES AND PLANS .................................................................................................................11 4.3.1 Regional Land Transport Strategy 2010 – 2040 ........................................................................................11 4.3.2 Wellington Regional Strategy.....................................................................................................................14 4.3.3 Wellington Regional Rail Plan...................................................................................................................15 4.4 PERFORMANCE OF CURRENT REGIONAL FREIGHT PLAN 2007..........................................................................16 4.4.1 Facilitate rail based transfer of logs to CentrePort ...................................................................................16 4.4.2 Protect short haul rail freight.....................................................................................................................16 4.4.3 Improve long haul rail freight efficiency....................................................................................................16 5. INFRASTRUCTURE AND LAND USE ..............................................................................................................16 5.1 STRATEGIC TRANSPORT NETWORK ...................................................................................................................16 5.1.1 Strategic rail network.................................................................................................................................17 5.1.2 Strategic road network ...............................................................................................................................17 5.2 REGIONAL CENTRES AND IMPORTANT DESTINATIONS ......................................................................................17 5.2.1 Key regional centres...................................................................................................................................17 5.2.2 CentrePort..................................................................................................................................................18 5.2.3 Ferry Terminal ...........................................................................................................................................19 5.2.4 Wellington International Airport................................................................................................................19 5.3 LAND USES .......................................................................................................................................................19 5.3.1 Industrial land............................................................................................................................................19 5.3.2 Integration of land use and transport planning..........................................................................................21 WGN_DOCS-#902458-V1 i 6. CURRENT FREIGHT MOVEMENTS................................................................................................................23 6.1 OVERALL FREIGHT MOVEMENTS ......................................................................................................................23 6.2 MODAL BREAKDOWN .......................................................................................................................................24 6.2.1 Road ...........................................................................................................................................................26 6.2.2 Rail .............................................................................................................................................................29 6.2.3 Sea freight ..................................................................................................................................................29 6.2.4 Summary.....................................................................................................................................................31 6.3 COMMODITIES ..................................................................................................................................................32 6.3.1 Projected growth ........................................................................................................................................34 7. ISSUES AND LIMITATIONS ..............................................................................................................................34 7.1 CONGESTION ....................................................................................................................................................34 7.2 ROAD FREIGHT TRAVEL TIME BETWEEN KEY DESTINATIONS ............................................................................36 7.3 TRAVEL TIME VARIABILITY BY ROAD ...............................................................................................................39 7.4 EMPTY RUNNING ..............................................................................................................................................41 7.5 RAIL CONSTRAINTS ..........................................................................................................................................41 7.6 NETWORK RELIABILITY ...................................................................................................................................42 7.7 FERRY CAPACITY .............................................................................................................................................43 7.8 ACCESS TO CENTRE PORT .................................................................................................................................44 7.9 PORT CAPACITY ...............................................................................................................................................45 7.10 AIRPORT CAPACITY ..........................................................................................................................................46 7.11 SAFETY AND PERSONAL SECURITY ...................................................................................................................46 7.12 ENVIRONMENT .................................................................................................................................................47 7.13 AFFORDABILITY ...............................................................................................................................................48 7.14 PEAK OIL ..........................................................................................................................................................48
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