Hamilton Southern Links

Hamilton Southern Links is a partnership between Hamilton City Council and the New Zealand Transport Agency to investigate and plan for the long term transportation and integrated land use infrastructure needs of the southern area of Hamilton in the Waikato. The Southern Links project involves 32 kilometres of future transport network, including 21km of State Highway (straddling Waipa District, Hamilton City, and Waikato District) and 11km of urban arterial roads located within Hamilton City. This was a unique and complex investigation because the evaluation requires multiple considerations of economic, environmental, social and cultural elements for each link in a very large transport network that impacts various projects and land use activities. Through extensive consultation, collaboration and working together as a community, the investigation confirmed the preferred route network which was typically 400 metres wide including a new crossing over the Waikato River. This was then refined to approximately 100m. Provision for providing smarter, more resilient and safer transport infrastructure is essential for future generations. The Southern Links road network has been developed using a robust and comprehensive approach, the results of which have been publicly consulted to ensure stakeholder issues are understood and incorporated into the preferred option wherever practicable. Protecting the corridor for the preferred network is important to allow Hamilton to grow and cater for future demands.

• Record URL:
  http://conf.hardingconsultants.co.nz/ipenztg2015/presenters/
• Authors:
  • Lion-Cachet, S
  • O'Halloran, M
• Conference:
  • Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Transportation Conference, 2015, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Publication Date: 2015-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: World class transport: smarter, stronger, safer: IPENZ Transportation Group Conference, Christchurch, 22-24 March 2015

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway planning; Intermodal transportation; Land use; Planning; Route choice; Transportation corridors; Types of roads by network
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road design and asset management; Road networks
• Geographic Terms: Hamilton, New Zealand; New Zealand
• ATRI Terms: Integrated transport; Road network; Road planning; Route choice; Transport corridor
• ITRD Terms: 1116: Corridor (transp); 1176: Integration (transport)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01566614
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 18 2015 11:01AM