The release of the New Zealand Transport Strategy and the enactment of the Land Transport Management Act 2003 (“LTMA”) represent a fundamental change in the funding and management of land transport in New Zealand. Under the new statutory regime of the LTMA, Transit New Zealand (‘Transit’) will play a greater role in processes that relate to land use proposals which have the potential to adversely affect the integration, safety, responsiveness or sustainability of the transport system, particularly in regard to state highways. Transit aims to take a more strategic approach to state highway planning to consider economic, environmental and social issues. This will require a stronger focus on working collaboratively with territorial authorities in particular to ensure an integrated and consistent approach to land transport management. The issues that will be discussed in this paper include: 1.integrated transport planning; 2. roading hierarchy; 3. access management; 4. travel demand management; 5. reverse sensitivity. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E213684.
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