Tauranga joins urban kiwiRAP

Tauranga is one of four New Zealand cities participating in the urban kiwiRAP programme - a risk assessment process for urban road transport.

The programme is a collaboration between the New Zealand Transport Agency, Auckland Transport and the Tauranga, Christchurch, and Dunedin local authorities that begins later this month.


Tauranga risk maps will show the good, the bad and the dangerous places for accidents.

The scheme is a development of the successful highways programme that has used crash data and risk mapping to identify where roading funds are best spent to save lives since 2005.

Since the highways programme was introduced, serious highway accidents have been reduced by 22 per cent, says NZTA chief safety advisor Colin Brodie.

The urban kiwiRAP programme will use the information to produce colour-coded maps illustrating the relative level of risk on sections of the city's road network, says Colin.

The main part of the public launch is to provide the completed risk maps. There are two terminologies in relation to the risk methods used to produce these maps; collective risk and personal risk.

Collective risk measures the number of high-severity crashes that happen per kilometre of road or at a particular intersection each year. Personal risk assesses the likelihood of individual road users being involved in a crash as they travel the road, or through a particular intersection.

Urban KiwiRAP will help target risk areas across the city, ensuring available funding is directed to areas where it will have the biggest impact.

The project provides a tool to identify areas that need attention to address high risk concerns. Detailed analysis can verify the authorisation programmes and where future funding should be targeted.

This tool will be used to deliver effective investment in projects, resulting in efficient outcomes for Council, with the maps providing the public with a useful tool to display road safety risks across the city.

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1 comment

MORE MONEY TO CONSULTANTS

Posted on 21-11-2014 21:41 | By The Caveman

If you are a regular Joe Public careful driver in Tauranga, you already know the BAD traffic places - there is no need to spend 1000's on consultants to work out where they are - just ask the regular drivers.


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