The document discusses managing and maintaining New Zealand's critical state highway assets from a maintenance perspective. It describes the state highway network, which comprises 11,000km of road and relies on bridges, culverts, and other structures. Maintaining the network faces challenges from New Zealand's variable climate and rugged landscapes, which see rainfall vary widely and include flooding, earthquakes, slips, and scouring. The document highlights examples of maintenance for highways in both the North and South Islands, such as addressing slips and rockfalls on SH6 on the West Coast and seismic retrofitting of bridges.
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Managing Critical Assets 2013
1. Managing Critical Assets
A Maintenance Perspective
Bradley Yates, Senior Asset Manager with NZ Transport Agency
3. Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective
New Zealand Transport Agency – Purpose
Creating transport solutions for a thriving New Zealand
Geoff Dangerfield, Chief Executive Officer
New Zealand State Highways
• Valued at $25 Billion NZD
• Is an essential asset for the productivity of New Zealand
• Providing efficient & reliable travel to almost all vehicle traffic & 70% of freight traffic
Colin Crampton, Highways & Network Operations, Group Manager
5. Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective
Maintaining our Network
• 4.4M Population (2012)
• Over three-quarters live in the North Island (76 %)
• Almost one-quarter living in Auckland 1.4M Population (32%)
• Early economy based on sealing, whaling, flax, kauri gum & native timber
• Early 1800’s gold was discovered mostly in the South Island
• Late 1800’s agricultural products became the highest export earner & major occupation
• $167 Billion GDP (2012) with agriculture contributing to two-thirds of exports
6. Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective
Maintaining our Network
• Comprises 11,000 kilometres of road
• Relies on 4,200 bridges and large culverts
• And other structures, retaining walls, sea walls, footbridges, sign gantries and stock
underpasses
While only representing 11% of New Zealand's road network, the state
highways carry half of the country's traffic.
7. Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective
Maintaining our Network
• Provides a vital link to almost 83,000km of local roads.
• There are still 185 single-lane bridges and 14 timber bridges on state highways
• 9 State Highway tunnels
• Crossing spectacular but challenging landscapes and climates
8. Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective
Maintaining our Network – Funding 2012/13
• Maintenance & Operations - $325M NZD
• Renewals - $199 Million NZD
• Improvements - $1,000 Million NZD
• Total - $1,524 Million NZD
9. Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective
Maintaining our Network - Challenges
Rainfall varies between 600 and 1600 mm of rainfall spread throughout the year
• Northern & Central areas more rainfall falls in winter than in summer
• Southern areas winter is the season of least rainfall, but has the snow!
Ranging from....
• 300 mm of rain a in semi-arid region of Central Otago
• 8000 mm in places west of the Southern Alps
• 3,100 glaciers larger than a hectare (Inventory taken in the 1980s by Trevor Chinn)
42. Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective
Maintaining our Network
Tourism is an important industry:
• contributing $15 Billion NZD (or 9%) of the country's GDP in 2010
Is now the largest export industry:
• 2.4 Billion international tourists visiting per year (as of September 2009), providing 18% of
the country's export earnings in 2010
New Zealand is marketed abroad as a "clean, green" adventure playground,
with typical destinations being nature areas such as Milford Sound...
44. SH94 – Milford Road A Maintenance Perspective
Maintaining our Network
Homer Tunnel
• 1200 m long of unlined rock
• completed 1953 and opened 1954
• Linking Hollyford Valley and Milford Sound, Fordland