London 20th to 21st November – New Directions in Transport Planning ONE TRANSPORTATION PLANET

ABSTRACT: New Zealand is geographically a rugged country accommodating only 4 million very mobile people. It has many transportation successes to its credit. This dominantly urban nation has one of the highest per capita expenditures on vehicles and travel in the world. Traffic conditions in the three main metropolitan areas of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch are, as predicted in the 1960s, stumbling into congestion. This paper outlines the activities of New Zealand engineers and planners in developing the country’s transport and urban systems. It also discusses some current technical issues in trip generation and establishes that the New Zealand trip generation environment is similar to those being explored in the United Kingdom and Australia. The third section of the paper describes the institutional and policy arrangements being developed for integrated national and regional transportation planning. Our UK and NZ transportation experiences have much in common and demonstrate that we are sharing ‘one transportation planet’