Transcript Slide 1

NZ Institute of Highway Technology
Improve Transport – Improve the Economy, 1 November 2010
Freight
Forward
THE RETURN OF
REGIONAL
PLANNING?
Ernst Zöllner, NZTA GM Strategy & Performance
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IN A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY…
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OUR CHALLENGE…
• In order to maintain our standard of living, NZ will
need to ‘earn’ more (through exports)
• However, of all OECD nations, NZ:
– has the smallest ‘domestic’ market
– is furthest away from its export markets
• This ‘distance from market’ is a penalty on NZ equal to
about 10% of GDP (OECD, 2008)
• As a nation, we therefore cannot afford to be less than
super efficient in our transport logistics
• Network providers and operators must excel in our
efforts to improve the efficiency of freight (and in
particular, product to market)
• Can some form of regional planning be the answer?
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… DID YOU SAY PLANNING?!
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The regional spatial
development plan
Example of a map
FREIGHT AS ONE OF FIVE NZTA PRIORITIES
Improve the Road
Safety System
Improve the
Effectiveness of
Public Transport
Plan for & Deliver
the Roads of
National
Significance
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Improve the
Efficiency of
Freight Movement
Improve Customer
Service and
Reduce
Compliance Costs
FOUR-PRONGED FREIGHT ACTION PLAN
Improved
planning
networks
to facilitate
the
efficiency
of freight
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Investment
in networks
and systems
to support
freight
Managing
the national
networks
(road and
rail) to
support
freight
Facilitating the
most efficient
access to (and
use of) the
transport
networks by
freight
operators
Starting at the demand side
• No national NZ transport strategy or national
transport plan or comprehensive interregional corridor plans
• Some regional strategies and plans e.g.
Auckland
• Instruction in GPS to undertake ‘integrated
planning’
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KEY ROUTES FOR FREIGHT AND TOURISM
Freight
Tourism
Freight and Tourism
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RELEVANT STATE HIGHWAY KPI’S
Reduce variability of journey
times on national strategic
freight routes
Reduce levels of severe
congestion in main urban
areas
Reported fatal and injury
crashes/vkt
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RAIL TRANSPORT NETWORK
•4,000 km national rail
network, with inter-island
ferry connection
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KEY RAIL FREIGHT ROUTES
3.8 million tonnes +
2.2 to 3.8 million tonnes
0.9 to 2.2 million tonnes
Less than 0.9 million
tonnes
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ROADS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
Puhoi to Wellsford
Auckland Victoria Park Bottleneck
Auckland Western Ring Route
Waikato Expressway
Tauranga Eastern Corridor
Wellington Northern Corridor
Christchurch Motorway Projects
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EMERGING RAIL NETWORK AND SERVICE STRATEGIES
For the 900 freight services per week…
Increase travel time
reliability
Improve customer
service
Explore long term value
add opportunities
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Hon Steven Joyce, Minister of
Transport, NZ Rail Conference, 21 April
2010
“Frankly everyone is going to have to hold hands
and jump together if this is to work”
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Whangarei
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Auckland
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Hamilton
Tauranga
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Whakatane
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Taupo