The management and benefits of automated survey data collection

The New Zealand Transport Agency manages a state highway network of about 11,000 kilometres, valued at twenty five billion dollars. This network is vital for the transportation and freight demands of New Zealanders and New Zealand businesses. The Transport Agency's Highways and Network Operations business group has a direct responsibility to provide safe, efficient and reliable journeys for our customers. The business activities we undertake to achieve this are reflected in our customer service targets. One of the key service targets is pavement condition, which in turn impacts on safety performance rating, road safety improvements and maintenance intervention. In order to fulfil the measurement and analysis requirements to identify any gaps in performance level, the Transport Agency's national performance management team procure high quality survey data for the entire network on an annual basis. Having a national survey, repeated annually, serves to standardise the performance framework across twenty four network management areas that make up the entire national network. As a result, long term trends can be analysed, national technical specifications can be developed and learning can be disseminated to support decision makers who have local knowledge of network conditions and customer expectations. This paper will describe the survey contracts used and how they are managed to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of the data. The result from the survey is an annual snapshot of the condition of our national state highway network, loaded into the Transport Agency's asset information database. This includes: skid resistance, texture, roughness, rutting, geometry, GPS and also network video. The paper will describe how the information from the survey is used to provide annual trends enabling better management of the state highway asset.

• Record URL:
  http://saferroadsconference.com/conference-papers-2014/
• Authors:
  • Ball, P
• Conference:
  • International Safer Roads Conference, 4th, 2014, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2014-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: Safer Roads 2014: 4th International Safer Roads Conference: 18-21 May 2014, Cheltenham, United Kingdom [papers]

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Highway traffic control; Traffic surveillance; Transportation planning; Travel behavior
• Uncontrolled Terms: Policy and planning; Road design and asset management
• Geographic Terms: New Zealand
• ATRI Terms: Data collection; Traffic management; Traffic monitoring; Transport planning; Travel behaviour
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01540205
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 14 2014 10:40AM