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Roundabout 135 Mar 2013 Roundabout NRewsletter of theoIPENZ Turansportatnion Group dabout Take me to DDUUNNEEGrouDDp ConfereIInce 20NN13 Preview Allternate modes: Legall iimplliicatiions of transportatiion deciisiions Viiew of the iindustry from the perspectiive of the 20­ somethiings Group Research IIssue 135 Commiittee update MMar1ch 2013 Roundabout Issue 135 March 2013 CCOONNTTEENNTTSS CCHHAAIIRR''SS CCHHAATT Chair's Chat 3 Editorial 5 Letters & News 6 pp77 Member Notices 6 Alternate Modes Proposed RMA Changes: Ho8w will they affect your transportation assessments? Member Contribution A Quantum Theory of Hierarchies 11 Greenfields 12 pp1122 Young Beca Engineers Conference Preview 14 Branch Updates 19 Transportation Group Research Committee Update 23 Transport Guy 26 Group Contacts 27 pp1144 Cover image: Dunedin Railway Station ISSN 011 3-9053 Roundabout Issue 135 March 2013 2 CCOONNTTEENNTTSS CCHHAAIIRR''SS CCHHAATT It’s two years since the to increase the engineering (and the Walk2Ride pedestrian devastating 22 February science) tertiary student intake, shelters programme, $60 million Christchurch earthquake and a there appears to be a real for fitting pedestrian overbridges number of structural and chance of our current (and with lifts, and $290 million for geotechnical engineers have future) members being made rail noise barriers. Considering been busy ever since. redundant or put on a shorter the size of Singapore with a Transportation professionals are working week as occurred in the planned 6½ (previously 5½) increasingly engaged in the relatively recent GFC induced million permanent residents planning and operational recession. (and considering the low cost of environment of the rebuild. The umbrellas), this is quite westward shift in traffic has I have heard it said that the impressive. caused noticeable problems majority of consulting with changed traffic patterns professionals moving overseas Conference Autumn 201 4 straining traffic light operations, for employment would be The Central branch has formally especially those without right unlikely to return to NZ should kicked off organising the turn arrows, more of which the there be in due course an conference to be held in authorities appear to be upsurge in demand for their Wellington (IPENZ centenary, installing in response to delays talents. It is therefore to be ‘Prosperity through ingenuity’ and resident comments. hoped that organisations such theme). I have been liaising with as ACENZ (with whom IPENZ our sub­groups and other The delayed census this month often collaborates), Ingenium (a industry representative bodies will help show changed Collaborating Technical Society re them holding a parallel population patterns in of IPENZ) and other institutions session to augment their annual Christchurch and elsewhere. In will raise (again?) with the conference/seminar/workshop. many areas it will confirm Government the impacts of the This might be by way of a third declining population and current fiscal and other day and we will be seeking associated decline in traffic constraints, in order to provide feedback from the Dunedin growth and lessen the need for stability in the transport conference about the reduced major new transport projects. professional services industry two day programme and before the expected upsurge canvassing the idea of the good Opportunities eventuates. With councils cutting back on infrastructure expenditure due to Singapore rail expansion the need for earthquake plans strengthening of public facilities, The Singapore Land increased insurance premiums Transport Masterplan (2013) and leaky home liabilities, the aims to double the existing future of transport and roading rail network to bring 80% of consultants is looking households within a 10­ increasingly challenging. This minute walk of a rail station situation is worsened in many by 2030, costing a mere parts of the country by the lack NZD70­100 billion. Plus of NZ Transport Agency within the next 5­7 years a spending outside of the Roads further NZD670 million is of National Significance and planned for other schemes, while the Government is funding comprising $320 million for 3 Roundabout Issue 135 March 2013 part of one day being held over It is pleasing to that the above draft April 2011, consultation EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL the weekend, as some are pretty well up to date but draft Mar 2012) update plans, conferences and company what about the other three in their Tuesday afternoon training courses regularly Parts? session report at our 2013 arrange. http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resourc Conference. I thank them in es/traffic­control­devices­ advance for doing so and for I hope that our ~80 current manual/tcd.html informs that informing how, as a overseas members will Parts 4 and 5 pertaining to professional body representing consider coming back for general use at intersections around 1200 members, we can Autumn 2014 to attend and and mid­block were planned for be a constructive part in the present at the conference, and 2012 and Part 6 Speed continual improvement and that our 80+ students will make Management for 2013. In updating processes within a short trip to the “coolest little addition there are three NZTA. capital in the world” (actually specifications: Signs (Aug it’s been an amazingly hot 2009), Traffic signals (planned Lastly, I always welcome summer). for 2011), and Markings (under feedback on any matters you consideration). might wish to raise, either Design and Planning Guides indirectly via our excellent We are a small country and With respect to planning, the branch chairs and secretaries, rely heavily on a few selective current Planning Policy Manual or directly to me in confidence. guides and standards, (PPM) as confirmed in NZTA’s I am hopeful to get the predominantly from NZ and/or register of network Australia, with NZTA being the standards and guidelines, "I always welcome main New Zealand wide is still version 1, August repository along with local 2007 although I recollect feedback on any Council engineering standards an update planned for matters you might and district plan requirements. 2011 (App 5E cost sharing amendment Oct 2008), wish to raise" My recent Saturday exploration The Planning & of the NZTA website pertaining Investment Knowledge to the Traffic Control Devices Base (August 2011) replaced opportunities to present to our (TCD) manual revealed some the Planning, programming and branches on suitable topics as interesting information: funding manual (Aug 2008). the opportunity arises – any • Part 1 General requirements NZTA provide a good service topic suggestions are for traffic signs, 1st ed, Oct for anyone to sign up to receive welcomed! Look forward to 2010 email updates about specific catching up with you at the • Part 2 Direction, service and documents (Austroads also Dunedin confeDave Wanty, general guide signs,1st ed, Jan provide a RoadWatch service Group Chairrence. 2011 https://www.onlinepublications. • Part 3 Advertising signs, 1st austroads.com.au/member/lists David Wanty, Chair` ed, Jan 2011 and update to Austroads IPENZ Transportation Group • Part 8 COPTTM, 4th ed, Nov Guides). 2012 • Part 9 Level crossings, 2nd I am confident that NZTA will ed, amend.1, Dec 2012 take the opportunity to mention • Part 10 Motorways and the above, plus their EEM, expressways, Jun 2009 & Feb State Highway Geometric 2010 Design Manual (draft Dec • Part 13 (to become Part 7) 2000) and High Risk Parking control, Dec 2007 Intersection Guide (interim Roundabout Issue 135 March 2013 4 EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL Perhaps it's the nature of our 200 feet either side of a road calling as transportation carriageway ­ but not to help professionals to be looking errant horses recover their always to improve, and path. The decree was to therefore to be constantly mitigate against the threat of pesimistic in our hunt for ambush by brigands who liked system failures. There's not to lurk in the bushes. much that's interesting about a safe, free­flowing piece of road We don't need to design Roundabout is the newsletter of the ­ at least not much worthy of against roadside brigands any IPENZ Transportation Group, published fee­paying investigation. more. There are advances in quarterly. It features topical articles and engineering and society other relevant tid­bits from the traffic This problem­based outlook happening all the time, that can engineering and transport planning can lead us to ignore, or at best be ignored in our leap from world, as well as details on the latest underacknowledge, the happenings in the NZ transportation advances that have scene. All contributions, including been made and the articles, letters to the editor, amusing improvements in traffic­related images and anecdotes are objectives that have welcome. been realised in the course of our work. It Many thanks are due to Opus doesn't take much International Consultants (see their looking back to note advertisement on p34), who sponsor the that over the last few printing of Roundabout for those decades, road safety members who prefer to receive a hard has improved however copy. it is measured; that (by and problem to problem. Just as it is Correspondence welcome, to large) public transport is more useful in research to study the [email protected] frequent, more reliable and effects of an intervention after Or c/o TDG, PO Box 1261, Hamilton more attractive; that our streets its implementation, so too 3240 are increasingly seen as places would it be useful for our road Roundabout is published around the 15th as much as thoroughfares, and controlling authorities to invest of March, June, September and that walking and cycling are an a little of their project budgets in December each year. increasingly valued mode in a a happy analysis of the realised Contributions are due by the 5th of each healthy transport system. benefits of their funding. publication month. To join the IPENZ Transportation Group, If we go back even further, the Perhaps you could add value to fill in an application form, available from greenness of our grass is even your next project by providing the Group website: more apparent.
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