The National Fieldays is teaming up with the NZ Transport Agency to make visitors' journeys to Mystery Creek this year safer and easier.

High-tech Bluetooth ‘blip trackers', a dedicated hashtag and a webpage are among the initiatives designed to help people plan and share their Fieldays travels with real-time traffic information.

With thousands of people expected to be turning out for this year's National Fieldays, the organisers have teamed up with the NZ Transport Agency to make travelling to and from the event easier and safer. Photo: Fieldays

A network of units which use Bluetooth technology have been placed at Fieldays and key central North Island towns such as Tauranga, Rotorua, Hamilton and Cambridge.

The devices use Bluetooth technology to record actual travel times for vehicles between the location of the trackers and Mystery Creek.

This information will be regularly updated at drivelive.nz/fieldays and the website will go live on June 9.

NZTA Waikato Highways manager Kaye Clark says social media users heading to Fieldays can share their travel experiences and get live travel information by using the hashtag #Fieldaystravel.

'This hashtag will be monitored by our National Travel Information Service team who will be standing by to answer any queries and let people know about any incidents or flooding on the key routes to and from the Fieldays so they can try another road if need be.

'We will also be looking to share travel information on electronic message boards around the Waikato, as far north as Auckland, and in other areas such as the Bay of Plenty.”

These message boards will help people to make informed decisions about what route to take and how long they might expect to spend on their journey.

NZ National Fieldays Society CEO Jon Calder says Fieldays is happy to work with the Transport Agency to provide a better travel experience to the event.

With thousands of people traveling to Fieldays via State Highways 1 and 3, and associated arterial routes, ensuring people have the most expedient travel time to Fieldays is 'really important”.

'If we experience severe weather, road accidents or high levels of congestion, all factors beyond our control, the traffic flow slows dramatically and impacts travel times to Mystery Creek.

'We acknowledge the massive inconvenience and disruption this causes our customers and we've been working with the Transport Agency to develop solutions to improve this for Fieldays 2015.”

Fieldays will be sharing the link to their website, plus live travel information will be going up on the loud speaker at the event.

Visitors will also be able to get travel and safety information at the agency's new look site on the corner of D Street and O Road, by Kiwi's Best Kitchen.

The NZTA site will also be showcasing its safer journeys approach to road safety, new electronic toll points, plus running two driving simulators where people can test their driving skills.

People who sign up for information on the agency's updated national travel information service OnTheMove will also go in the draw to win one of four TomTom Go50 GPS devices.

The Fieldays Live Traffic Updates website www.drivelive.nz/fieldays will go live on June 9.