This report focuses on how Transit New Zealand (Transit), the agency responsible for planning, constructing, maintaining and operating the nationalstrategic road network throughout New Zealand, is meeting the challenges of sustainability. It explains how Transit is aiming to achieve integratedmulti-modal transport solutions by developing and implementing a range ofinitiatives. The legislative framework that Transit operates within has an underlying ethos of sustainable management that is carried through transport, land use planning and environmental legislation. The generally accepted definition of sustainability in New Zealand is "meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Transit is addressing sustainability by reviewing its priorities and emphasis, restructuring to better align the organisation with its priorities, revising its strategic plans and undertaking arange of practical initiatives aimed at embedding sustainability throughout the organisation and the services it delivers. This paper provides a background on those initiatives and includes several case studies that illustrate how the initiatives are being implemented. For the covering abstractsee ITRD E139491.
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