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The development of a benchmarking tool for monitoring progress towards sustainable transportation in New Zealand

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  • Henning, Theunis F.P.
  • Muruvan, Sugandree
  • Feng, Wanhua A.
  • Dunn, Roger C.

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Creating and maintaining a safe and sustainable transport system is a common challenge for road authorities around the world. The New Zealand government has taken this challenge one step further by incorporating it into country's legislation. As a consequence all road land transport authorities are committed to implementing initiatives to respond to both the challenge and the legislation. A benchmarking process for the transport sector is one of these initiatives on a national level. Benchmarking is a well known and utilised technology for the measuring of performance for infrastructure, for example within the water provision sector in England. This paper presents the development of a national benchmarking process for the transport sector of New Zealand. This development is part of a strategy to encourage road land transport authorities to improve the performance of transport in achieving sustainability and environmental targets. The development involved a literature review, proof of concept and the full implementation stage. A total of nine key performance indicators were developed to indicate the status of transport sector performance. The project and its outcomes are considered to be of benefit to road land transport authorities across the world who wish to develop a benchmark process of their own.

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  • Henning, Theunis F.P. & Muruvan, Sugandree & Feng, Wanhua A. & Dunn, Roger C., 2011. "The development of a benchmarking tool for monitoring progress towards sustainable transportation in New Zealand," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 480-488, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:trapol:v:18:y:2011:i:2:p:480-488
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