Transport Safety and Security : Road user behaviour

SS008 Unimpeded speeds on urban and open roads

Series Data

Unimpeded speeds on urban and open roads

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Open road mean speed km/h	96.6	96.3	96.2	96.5	95.6
Open road % travellling over 100km/h	30%	29%	29%	31%	25%
Urban mean speed km/h	52.6	52.3	52.0	52.0	51.3
Urban % travelling over 50km/h	64%	61%	58%	59%	53%

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Unimpeded speeds on open roads by region. km/h.

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Northland	96.3	95.8	96.0	95.5	93.6
Auckland	95.3	95.9	93.8	95.5	93.3
Waikato	94.6	94.6	94.8	93.7	93.0
Bay of Plenty	95.4	96.4	95.4	96.5	94.0
Gisborne	95.8	96.7	98.4	97.0	96.7
Hawke's Bay	99.8	99.3	100.3	99.9	93.8
Taranaki	94.3	93.0	92.9	96.3	97.2
Manawatu-Wanganui	97.0	97.4	96.9	100.4	97.9
Wellington	94.0	95.6	94.4	94.7	95.2
Nelson-Marlborough-Tasman	-	-	-	-	-
West Coast	-	-	-	-	-
Canterbury	98.5	98.9	98.3	100.7	99.3
Otago	100.9	99.7	98.8	99.5	99.4
Southland	100.1	99.9	99.3	93.4	98.3
All NZ	96.6	96.3	96.2	96.5	95.6

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Unimpeded speeds on urban roads by region

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Northland	52.4	51.8	51.7	51.5	51.8
Auckland	55.1	54.8	54.1	54	52.7
Waikato	52.5	51.5	52.3	51.8	51.9
Bay of Plenty	49.5	49.2	49.2	49.5	47.8
Gisborne	55.8	55	55.3	55.2	54.5
Hawke's Bay	52.2	52.7	51.4	52.1	52.1
Taranaki	48.2	48.7	48.8	49.4	48.5
Manawatu-Wanganui	51.6	51.2	50.9	51.6	50.4
Wellington	49.7	49.3	49.1	49.1	49.3
Nelson-Marlborough-Tasman	50.4	48.9	49.0	49	49.1
West Coast	-	-	-	-	-
Canterbury	52.1	52.5	52.3	51.4	50.4
Otago	51.4	51.4	51.0	50.9	50.9
Southland	54.4	54.3	54.0	54.1	53.3
All NZ	52.6	52.3	52.0	52	51.3

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Graphical Data

Unimpeded speeds on urban and open roads

Unimpeded speeds on urban and open roads

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Proportion of drivers travelling over the designated speed limit

Proportion of drivers travelling over the designated speed limit

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