research

This section contains information about travel, motor vehicle crashes, road user attitudes and behaviours in New Zealand. The studies have been produced by the Research and Statistics section of the Ministry's Strategic Directions Group.

Strategy

The Transport Research Strategy is a first for New Zealand. It informs those who fund or undertake transport related research of the transport sector’s research needs for the shorter-term future. The strategy includes a research work programme that sets out priorities for the transport sector over the next five years.

Research reports

Travel survey
Information about day-to-day travel in New Zealand - how people travel, where they go, when and why, and how risky it is.

Current (on-going) survey: information for participants and researchers.
1997/98 survey: detailed highlights including text, tables and graphs, and a link to the full survey report (PDF)

Public attitudes to road safety: full text, tables and graphs of the annual surveys, focusing on drink driving, speed and safety belts. Surveys are also available as PDF files.

Statistics

Road toll: See the Land Transport New Zealand website for latest tables of road deaths, fatal crashes and deaths by region.
Monthly overview of crash statistics: latest monthly overview of fatal and injury crash statistics.
Motor vehicle crashes in New Zealand: full text, tables and figures of the annual statistical statement on road crashes in New Zealand.
Motor Vehicle Crash Facts: background information on crash statistics.
Regional road safety issues: See the Land Transport NZ Regional Road Safety Issues reports for regional road safety statistics.
Speed: key facts and tables of average (mean) open road car speeds and urban car speeds.
Safety belts: text, tables and graphs on safety belt wearing rates (front and rear and child restraints).
Cycle helmets: text, tables and graphs of cycle helmet wearing rates by age group, by regions and by Police District.
Alcohol and drugs: text of key facts and tables of key statistics.
Young drivers: text of key facts and tables of key statistics (drivers aged 15-19 and 20-24).
Fatigue: text of key facts and tables of key statistics.
Motorcycles: text of key facts and tables of key statistics.
Trucks: text of key facts and tables of key statistics.
Cyclists: text of key facts and tables of key statistics.
Diverted Attention: text of key facts and tables of key statistics.
Pedestrians: text of key facts and tables of key statistics.
Vehicle registration statistics:

The New Zealand Light Vehicle Fleet (PDF, 798kb)
The New Zealand Light Vehicle Fleet supplemental spreadsheet* (Excel, 814kb)
* The graphs and data are also available in the Excel data spreadsheet (Excel required)
Vehicle registration information is also available from Land Transport New Zealand.

Other information

New Zealand road safety research: table list of current road safety research in New Zealand.
AIS: the Accident Investigation System has been superseded by CAS.
CAS: the Crash Analysis System. CAS is an integrated computer system that provides tools to collect, map, query and report on road crash and related data. This page on the Land Transport NZ website includes information for those interested in accessing CAS.
Funding: an explanation of how road safety research is funded and by whom. Includes links to more detailed information and to funding organisations.
Conferences: links to sites hosting papers from road safety research conferences and notices about forthcoming conferences and seminars.