Transport Safety and Security : Road user behaviour

SS008 Unimpeded speeds on urban and open roads

Series Data

Unimpeded speeds on urban and open roads

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Open road mean speed km/h	96.4	96.3	96.6	96.3	96.2
Open road % travellling over 100km/h	32%	29%	30%	29%	29%
Urban mean speed km/h	52.6	52.5	52.6	52.3	52.0
Urban % travelling over 50km/h	63%	63%	64%	61%	58%

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

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Northland	96.0	95.0	96.3	95.8	96.0
Auckland	96.5	96.2	95.3	95.9	93.8
Waikato	96.6	95.2	94.6	94.6	94.8
Bay of Plenty	91.2	91.5	95.4	96.4	95.4
Gisborne	97.3	97.8	95.8	96.7	98.4
Hawke's Bay	96.1	96.3	99.8	99.3	100.3
Taranaki	94.2	94.4	94.3	93.0	92.9
Manawatu-Wanganui	97.3	97.7	97.0	97.4	96.9
Wellington	92.1	93.2	94.0	95.6	94.4
Nelson-Marlborough-Tasman	-	-	-	-	-
West Coast	-	-	-	-	-
Canterbury	100.2	99.3	98.5	98.9	98.3
Otago	97.3	99.8	100.9	99.7	98.8
Southland	-	99.4	100.1	99.9	99.3
All NZ	96.4	96.3	96.6	96.3	96.2

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Unimpeded speeds on urban roads by region

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Northland	53.0	53.0	52.4	51.8	51.7
Auckland	55.4	55.3	55.1	54.8	54.1
Waikato	53.9	52.2	52.5	51.5	52.3
Bay of Plenty	47.4	48.2	49.5	49.2	49.2
Gisborne	55.7	55.2	55.8	55	55.3
Hawke's Bay	52.3	51.7	52.2	52.7	51.4
Taranaki	48.4	48.9	48.2	48.7	48.8
Manawatu-Wanganui	50.3	50.2	51.6	51.2	50.9
Wellington	49.1	49.4	49.7	49.3	49.1
Nelson-Marlborough-Tasman	49.0	49.0	50.4	48.9	49.0
West Coast	-	-	-	-	-
Canterbury	52.5	52.5	52.1	52.5	52.3
Otago	53.1	52.4	51.4	51.4	51.0
Southland	-	55.1	54.4	54.3	54.0
All NZ	52.6	52.5	52.6	52.3	52.0

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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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