Land Transport

As well as being a regular road and rail user, my work for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport sometimes touches on land transport policy issues. This page is devoted to land transport.

Tranz Metro passenger train at Mana station, New Zealand (2007)©

Relevant New Zealand departments and agencies

 

Some New Zealand ministerial statements and speeches focused on land transport

New Zealand economic regulation of road and rail transport

Relevant legislation includes the Land Transport Act 1998 and the Transport Act 1962. Free access is available on the web to New Zealand legislation.

Overseas transport departments and agencies

Links to our overseas counterparts:

Asia / Pacific

Europe

Americas / Africa

Major land transport operators in New Zealand

Urban Passenger

 

Road

Rail

  • Ontrack - the government-owned New Zealand Railways Corporation that provides the track
  • Toll NZ
  • Tranz Scenic - long-distance passenger services

Major foreign land transport operators

Urban Passenger

Road and Multi-modal Logistics

Rail

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Tram in Geneva, Switzerland (2000)©

International and land transport industry organisations

The activities of the following international and land transport industry organisations are of particular relevance:

International land transport related information

Web sites providing transport industry news include:

Finance web sites also provide industry coverage:

Academic sites:

Other industry sites:

Interesting reports, speeches, research articles and papers available online include (the first set is generally by academics and the second set by government practitioners):

 

Train at Geneva station, Switzerland (2004)©

Other sites

Schedule information for New Zealand urban passengers services is available from:

Five useful sources of further links are:

Last modified 23 August 2009

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