The Roading Efficiency Group (REG) was established to implement recommendations from a Road Maintenance Task Force and identified four areas for improvement including adapting business models and improving asset management practices. REG is working on initiatives such as developing a one network road classification, facilitating collaboration between local authorities and NZTA, and establishing governance groups and workstreams focused on asset management and service delivery. The future work of REG includes convening groups to develop requirements for improved data collection and analysis to better inform road maintenance projects and investments.

1. Roading Efficiency Group (REG)
UPDATE

2. REG: Where did it come from?
Established to implement the recommendations
of the Road Maintenance Task Force…
Four general areas for improvement identified:
 Adapting the business models used to deliver
maintenance, renewals and operations
 Improving procurement practices, also in support of
new business models
 Improving prioritisation and optimisation through
level of service differentiation
 Consistently introducing enhanced asset
management practices

3. Enhanced asset management
practice
Requires:
 Effective planning and delivery to achieve value
for money objectives, eg
 early tendering opportunities
 awareness of the annual programme and better
timing of works
 improved knowledge sharing
 A consistent road classification system and levels
of service across the whole network
 Greater collaboration between asset owners

4. Strong asset management
practice
Includes enabling the
use of
 innovative services,
 products, and
 methods of procurement

5. REG: A work in progress
Governance Group
established
Workstreams include:
 Asset Management and
Service Delivery
 Collaboration & Clustering
 One Network Classification
 Policy and Investment

6. One Network Road Classification
 Purpose - develop an integrated
classification for NZ road network (state
highways & local roads) to:
 assist with planning, investment, maintenance and
operational decision making
 support collaboration and cooperation
 support customer focused approach to seamless
movement of good and people
 Joint local government/NZTA project that builds on
National road classification work & State highway
classification
 Timeline - engagement with the sector mid-year &
final classification by December 2013.

7. Collaboration and Clustering
Working together
 Conversations have been initiated in numerous
areas throughout New Zealand looking at
different forms of collaboration
 Conversations have taken place between the
NZTA and local authorities and also between
various local authorities
 REG provides assistance to structure
collaboration including establishing a framework
and facilitating
 As a start, many regions are investigating
opportunities by having regular conversations and
sharing knowledge and practices

8. Collaboration and Clustering
(cont.)
Current progress
 Six initiatives have accepted REG support and
are developing business cases
 They are Northland, Western Bay of
Plenty, Waikato, Gisborne, South
Canterbury, Central Otago
 Marlborough Roads, Nelson and Tasman regions
are also progressing well with their conversations
 Collaboration is taking many forms from sharing
knowledge at one end of the spectrum, to
integrated shared service delivery at the other

9. Collaboration and Clustering
(cont.)
Three key areas which build towards
collaborative work:
 Operations: reviewing policies and plans between
road controlling authorities to improve
consistency in service delivery and seeking the
‘one network’ experience (e.g traffic operations
centres in major centres)
 Asset management: developing strategic or
investment plans by drawing on each other’s
experience
 Service delivery: establishing joint ventures or
other formal arrangements between the parties

10. Future work
The Task Force recommended that the NZTA convene a
user group or an established group (eg a National
Strategic Asset Management Group), drawn from across
the sector to develop requirements for improved data
input, transformation of the data into useful, repeatable
and meaningful information, dissemination, and
effectiveness in the use of data, focusing on areas such
as:
 requirements for data, data-based systems (eg RAMM – Road
Assessment Maintenance Management database), dTIMS
(Deighton’s Total Infrastructure Management System) and
technology platforms
 measurements to assess the effectiveness of different road
maintenance projects and new materials
 measures of asset consumption and its causes
 measurement to enable better timing of interventions
 road classification.

11. What we value

12. What we value
 Sovereign
 Purchasing power of about
£69.42 GBP today
(NZ$120.73)
 Mint condition - £200 GBP
(NZ$345.84)
 Invested $120.73
8% $ 334,550.76
6%
today:103 years 48,788.71
$
4% $ 6,858.82