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Research and guidelines

The RCA Forum wants to identify best practice, particularly where local circumstances might necessitate variation from currently accepted best practice or identify potential improvement.  Any proposal to include new, or major changes to currrent best practice reference documents in the Register of Network Standards and Guidelines will be notified to users and posted on this page.  Feedback from members is sought on any proposal.

Feedback should be provided back to the Research and Guidelines Steering Group.  The Group will consider the feedback.  If necessary, it will report to a meeting of the RCA Forum, but otherwise it will report with a recommendation to the Ratification Group on adoption of the proposal as a Local Status document.

New reference documents or major changes to documents in the Register  will be ratified by a Ratification Group that includes the Convenor of the Research and Guidelines Steering Group and at least two representatives of the National Planning Manager, National Investment Manager , Information Manager and HNO National Manager Professional Services from NZTA. 

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10 November 2011: The following new reference documents or changes to documents in the Register were ratified by the Ratification Group meeting on 13 October and are proposed for Local Status:

 

 

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This is the list of new or significantly altered documents recently added to the Register as approved with State Highway and Funding (Investment) status:

 

Provisional Passing and Overtaking Guidelines; TNZ M/19 Specification - Evaluation of Application for Approval of 6mm OCLYTE Short Stub TM manufactured by CSP Pacific; Archive type column; Impact requirements for Traffic Sign Provisional Advice June 2005; Hinge Mechanism for Signs Mounted on Two or More Breakaway Timber Posts: Provisional Advice: December 2005; Environmental Plan; Urban and Landscape Design Frameworks - Highways and Network Operations Guideline; Urban Design Principles: Underpass Guidance Notes; Urban Design Principles: Noise Walls Guidance Notes; Urban Design Principles: Road Bridge Guidance Notes; Urban Design Principles: Pedestrian Bridge Guidance Notes; Urban Design Professional Services Guide; Social and Environmental Management; Social and Environmental Management Plan - Contractor's; Climate Change Position Statement; Urban Design - Frequently Asked Questions; NZTA Consent Compliance Management System (CS-Vue User Protocol and Guidance); Acoustics - Construction Noise; MfE Good Practice Guide for Assessing Discharges to Air from Land Transport; NIWA Guidance for the Management of Air Quality in Road Tunnels in NZ; NIWA Stocktake of Air Quality in and around State Highway Tunnels; Stormwater Treatment Standard for State Highway Infrastructure; Urban Design Principles: Landscaping Guidance Notes; Landscaping web-based training module; Stormwater web-based training module; Stocktake of Transport Related Air Pollution Research in NZ v2; Guideline for handling environmental complaints; PIARC - Road Tunnels: A Guide to Optimising the Air Quality Impact upon the Environment (2008R04); Interim Guideline for Air Quality inside Road Tunnels; GNS Air Particulate Monitoring in Johnstone's Hill Tunnel, Auckland; Air Quality Monitoring Spatial Viewer Layers; Planning Practice Guidelines; 

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