A necessary safety and function upgrade for a busy State Highway intersection feeding the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty. The construction called for road safety auditing and site safety auditing as the works progressed to ensure a high level of safety and maintenance of traffic flows particularly in the peak seasons.
The development of the NZ Transport Agency Training and Competency Model means a complete overhaul of the CoPTTM training system in New Zealand. NZTA looked to the industry for a singular TTM design advisor to assist with development and review of the new model materials and framework. That singular design advisor was appointed in 2019 as Darrin Humphries, one of the Parallaxx consultancy team.
To create a framework for NZTA to release to RCA’s for expanding footpaths and cycleways during the COVID-19 Levels due to higher levels of pedestrian and cycle use utilising TTM methodologies with less vehicles on the road. COVID-19 requirements have a 2m spacing between people not within their own “bubble” so utilising the carriageway is being explored.