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Register of Network Standards and Guidelines
For recently added or amended reference documents, see the list here.
Significant changes have been to the State Highway section of the Register Process Manual. No significant changes have been made to the Funding and Local sections. Register Process Manual V3.0 July 2011 is now available at the existing link.
The Register has also been significantly changed. The layout has been changed from MS-WORD to MS-EXCEL 2003 to increase its usefulness. Also, NZTA Specifications have been added, along with recently developed guidelines, and a Planning and Investment knowledge base section has been added under Network funding standard documents. Joanna Towler and Miranda Wood, in particular, have made a significant contribution to this revision of the Register.
The spreadsheet format now contains four worksheets:
- About this Register
- Register management plan
- Full Register
- Record of amendments
The Register and the associated Register Process Manual were developed by NZTA in November 2009 with support from the RCA Forum and the wider industry. Reference documents were automatically transferred to the Register if they were included in the previous State Highway or Land Transport NZ standards and guidelines manuals, with the previous Status of the documents.
The Register provides, in one place, a definitive list of all relevant NZTA State Highway Network Operation and Investment policies, commonly adopted manuals and technical documents. It also provides a simple, easy to access and manipulate repository of reference documents for local road controlling authorities. Local road networks need to support the reference documents as providing current best practice. They should be willing to adopt the standard solutions in the Register and, where necessary, vary those standard solutions to respond to local circumstances appropriately.
Where a local variation has been adopted and proven successful, details of the local variation should be provided to the approriate NZTA technical expert for noting as a local solution in the Register.