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Research and Guidelines Steering Group

 The Research and Guidelines Steering Group has the mandate to be the acknowledged source for industry research and development of guidelines relating to road asset ownership.  There are three key result areas:

  1. Review and update user requirements;
  2. Prioritise and manage development of research and guidelines; and
  3. Improve use of RCA Forum meetings and best practice guidelines by practitioners.

The comprises representatives from the stakeholders of the RCA Forum and the convenors of the current working groups.  The Steering Group convenor is Peter Bailey of Porirua City Council (contact at pbailey@pcc.govt.nz).  The other members are: Fiona Vessey of Kaipara District Council, James Hughes and Bill Greenwood of the New Zealand Transport Agency, Kaye Clark, also of NZTA and the convenor of the Asset Performance Monitoring Working Group, Fiona Knight of Cresmere Consulting, convenor of the National Stock Effluent Working Group, and Wayne Newman, also of Cresmere Consulting and convenor of the Stormwater Working Group.  Wayne Newman is also the administrator of the Steering Group (contact at wayne@cresmere.co.nz).

The Group provides regular update reports or presentations to the RCA Forum.  These reports are included in the reports of each Forum meeting, but copies of briefing notes for recent reports are available below.  See also the Group's Meetings page.

Current Topics

 The Group is working closely with NZTA to ensure that research will be relevant and applicable, and guidelines will reflect both national and local best practice.  The Group is represented on the NZTA Network Standards and Guidelines Ratification Group and is responsible for ensuring that newly approved reference documents are published here for member comment and feedback prior to being adopted as Local Guidelines.

The Group is also working to coordinate sector representation in new initiatives.  This has included the identification of sector representatives for the reference group working with NZTA to develop a High Risk Motorcycle Routes Guide (ToR can be downloaded here) and input into the development of specifications for optical fibre cable deployment - known as the Deployment Standards Initiative.  See www.deploymentstandardsinitiative.com

Meetings & Workshops

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