Title: New Zealand: national report: strategic direction session ST1: challenges for the sustainable development of road systems
Abstract: This report focuses on how Transit New Zealand (Transit), the agency responsible for planning, constructing, maintaining and operating the national strategic roading network throughout New Zealand, is the challenges of sustainability. It explains how Transit is aiming to achieve integrated multi-modal transport solutions by developing and implementing a range of initiatives. The legislative framework that Transit operates within has an underlying ethos of sustainable management that is carried through transport, land use planning and environmental legislation. The generally accepted definition of sustainability in New Zealand is meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Transit is addressing sustainability by reviewing its priorities and emphasis, restructuring to better align the organisation with its priorities, revising its strategic plans and undertaking a range of practical initiatives aimed at embedding sustainability throughout the organisation and the services it delivers. This paper provides a background on those initiatives and includes several case studies that illustrate how the initiatives are being implemented.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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