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Temporary traffic management and pothole reporting

Reporting Temporary Traffic Management and Pothole Repairs

The Government Policy Statement on land transport 2024-34 (GPS) sets expectations on the Road Efficiency Group to provide reporting and analysis to help build more efficiencies and value for money in the Transport sector. The GPS specifically includes a focus on targetting efficiencies in Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) and potholes.

Entering quarterly TTM and pothole information

Following on from the GPS expectations, REG has implemented screens for Road Controlling Authorities (RCA) to capture quarterly information on:

  1. Temporary Traffic Management year to date spend, as well as capturing information on quarterly inspections of sites that use TTM.
  2. Counts of potholes identified and counts of repairs within timeframes

RCA users with secure permissions will enter year to date TTM costs for each quarter once the quarter is finished. These users will also enter counts of inspected sites with TTM present and the count of any sites where TTM is in place but no longer necessary, for example sites where traffic cones and/or speed restrictions are still in place despite the roading work having been completed.

RCA users with secure permissions will also enter the pothole counts including breakdowns of counts by road category.

Both of these results can be entered in Transport Insights via the Performance > Quarterly Reporting menu. The page has two tabs, one for Temporary Traffic Management and the other for Potholes. The two sets of results need to be entered separately but both must be entered within the 10 business day deadline.

Reporting the quarterly results

The quarterly TTM and Pothole results entered by the RCAs are reported to the NZTA Board and the Transport Minister’s office for review.

REG will publish the quarterly results for each RCA in the RCA Performance Dashboard only after the NZTA Board and the Transport Minister’s office have completed their review and released the quarterly results.

Temporary Traffic Management Guidance

Temporary Traffic Management needs to be put in place for a wide range of activities happening on or near roads: road works, drainage maintenance, utilities works such as power line maintenance, sporting and community events, emergency events such as fires, flooding or vehicle crashes, etc.

RCAs are only required to report on some of these Temporary Traffic Management installations. The Temporary Traffic Management Quarterly Reporting Guidance document itemises the costs that RCAs need to report on, and also itemises the type of site inspections that RCAs need to count.

The REG Temporary traffic management reporting page on the NZTA web site has a link to the latest guidance document. This web page also includes a link to the New Zealand guide to temporary traffic management if you wish to learn more about the approach to using TTM on New Zealand roads.

Pothole Repairs Guidance

The guidance on entering pothole repair results provides detailed information about the results that need to be entered by RCAs in Transport Insights. The guidance document is available from the REG Pothole repair time reporting page on the NZTA website.