1. Debbie Despard Senior Manager, Regulatory Compliance Road Corridor New Zealand Transport Agency

2. Weigh Right Programme Safer roads Smarter regulation
A level playing field for industry

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The NZ Transport Agency’s Weigh Right Programme will reduce heavy vehicle overloading.
It will level the playing field for the transport industry, improve road safety, and ensure that heavy vehicle operators pay their fair share of road maintenance.
The programme will install road side technology and develop intelligent software to direct potentially overloaded vehicles into 12 commercial vehicle safety centres (new name for weigh stations) throughout New Zealand. To do this, four existing weigh stations will be upgraded and an additional eight will be built on new sites.
Further, to support weight compliance, the programme is building a heavy vehicle permits system. It will be easy for our customers to use and will process and manage heavy vehicle permit information efficiently.
Slide focus: What is the Weigh Right Programme and what are we trying to achieve
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<Please let audience know the commercial vehicle safety centres will be the new name for weigh stations>
Introduction:
Why are we delivering the Weigh Right Programme?
We want safer roads, to deliver smarter regulation and create a more level playing field for industry.
The programme has been in planning for several years, recognising that we must, and can do better to limit illegal overloading.
Problem definition
Current weight enforcement processes disrupt the journeys of large numbers of compliant vehicles because of poor targeting capability
Compliant operators are subsidising non-compliant operators, who are not paying their fair share
Not able to collect the appropriate level of funding from customers using the road network
Not maximising return on investment in enforcement infrastructure and activities
The New Zealand public continue to be exposed to the safety risk of overweight vehicles
Currently, his is what it means for our stakeholders:
Heavy Vehicle Operators/Drivers:
Significant numbers of compliant operators have their journeys disrupted at an active site resulting in increased vehicle downtime, driver logbook hours, and late deliveries (and potentially business because of impact on client's perception of operator's reliability)
More non-compliant operators escape enforcement stops at an active site because of limited site capacity
Compliant operators are subsidising non-compliant operators, who are not paying their fair share.
Enforcement officers
Low return on enforcement effort at a site
Poor ability to plan enforcement effort for best impact across sites.
For us at the NZ Transport Agency/Government
Safety concerns
Not maximising return on investment in enforcement infrastructure and activities.
New Zealand Public
Continue to be exposed to the safety risk of overweight vehicles
Subsidise the impact of non-compliant operators, who are not paying their fair share.

4. Slide focus: Share video
Slide focus: Share video. This video nicely shows an example of how the weight screening technology will work at a commercial vehicle safety site
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5. Programme benefits
Improved road safety
Targeted weight enforcement
A level playing field for industry
Operators pay their fair share of road maintenance
A heavy vehicle permits system that is easy to use
Technology designed and built with the future in mind
Slide focus: The Weigh Right programme will deliver six key benefits
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Reducing illegal overloading of heavy vehicles will deliver two key benefits to New Zealand:
1. Reduced negative impacts and associated costs of overloading through:
Reductions in the accelerated road pavement wear and weakening of road structures that occurs as a result of overloading
Reductions in crashes where overloading is a contributing factor.
2. Increased system efficiency and effectiveness of enforcement through:
Improved targeting of overloaded heavy vehicles, thus allowing compliant vehicles to continue on journey and lessen productivity costs
Improved targeting of enforcement resources, thus improving efficiency and effectiveness of enforcement.
The WRP will also improve the alignment of incentives on operators to comply by:
Increasing the likelihood (real and perceived) of overloaded heavy vehicles being stopped and incurring the associated productivity and enforcement costs
Reducing the likelihood of compliant heavy vehicles being stopped and incurring associated productivity impacts.

6. Programme delivery
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Stanley St, Auckland City
Paengaroa, Bay of Plenty
Glasnevin, North Canterbury
Stanley St, Auckland City
Paengaroa, Bay of Plenty
Glasnevin, North Canterbury
Ohakea, Manawatu
Taupo
Rakaia, South Canterbury
Ohakea, Manawatu
Taupo
Rakaia, South Canterbury
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Mackays Crossing, Kapiti Coast
Bombay, South Auckland
North Shore, Auckland
Marsden, Northland
MacKays Crossing, Kapiti Coast
Bombay, South Island
North Shore, Auckland
Marsden, Auckland
Napier Port
Tauranga Port
Napier Port
Tauranga Port
Slide focus: How we are delivering the Weigh Right Programme
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This phase of the programme will deliver 12 national sites across four tranches. Some are existing sites we are upgrading, others will be delivered as part of scheduled projects. Further, the programme will buy land and build new CVSCs.
Tranche 1 – Existing Site Upgrades - Stanley Street, Paengaroa and Glasnevin
These are established sites with adequate access and egress, weigh bridges, control buildings and inspection facilities. Enhancing these sites with weight screening hardware and information systems will provide early WRP benefits.
Tranche 2 – New Rural Sites - Taupo, Ohakea and Rakaia
Because these are rural sites, it is expected that land purchase will be relatively straight forward which will allow these to be delivered by mid Ohakea is an existing site but there needs to be weigh stations on either side of the road due to the difficulty in turning heavy vehicles across the heavy traffic flows.
Tranche 3 – New Urban Sites – Tauranga and Napier Ports
Potential sites have been identified and nearly two years is scheduled for purchase of land making the target delivery date for these sites early 2020.
Tranche 4 – New sites associated with major highway projects – North Shore, Marsden, MacKay’s and Bombay
For this phase sites screen for weight compliance across 46% of all NZ’s freight kilometres travelled
The weight screening technology is installed near commercial vehicle safety centers (formerly weigh stations)
While we are seeking to achieve consistency across sites, there will be some differences due to site location and size.

7. Slide focus: Driver experience of the vehicle screening system and talking briefly to technology
*This slide has animation – please click to bring up the next image of the commercial vehicle safety centre
Driver experience
1. A heavy vehicle will be alerted that a commercial vehicle safety centre is open between 1 and 3 kilometres before the safety centre. There will an electronic sign that says commercial vehicle safety centre operating. Identified heavy vehicles must pull in. The words ‘heavy vehicle’ are used so that all motorists are clear about the vehicles that are affected.
2. When a vehicle travels over the weigh-in-motion scales an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera will capture the number plate of your prime mover.
3. The combined information from the weigh-in-motion (in-road) scales and the ANPR camera will be assessed by the vehicle screening system to see if it complies with its allowable weight, including permits, according to the Transport Agency databases.
5. If the system identifies that the HV is potentially overweight, either on gross vehicle mass or by axle weight distribution, that vehicle will be signalled to pull in to the commercial vehicle safety centre.
6. This will be done by showing the vehicles number plate on a second electronic sign, followed by the words ‘pull in now’ (Click to bring up second image)
7. At the commercial vehicle safety centre, CVST officers will ask the driver to travel over the weigh bridge. The weigh bridge scales are calibrated and certified for enforcement of weight compliance.
8. CVST officers may also with to undertake further compliance checks, including RUC, while a vehicle is at the commercial vehicle safety centre, in the same way they do currently
Additional information on technology, if helpful Debbie.
How weigh in motion works
Following the Weigh Right Trial we evaluated that bending plate is the preferred weigh in motion option.
Bending plates can weigh vehicles travelling over the scales at speeds between 5 km/h to 200 km/h.
We are also ensuing optimal accuracy through specific pavement conditions
Worst case scenario – you get pulled in – as oppose to before when ‘All trucks stop’
How automatic number plate recognition cameras work (ANPR)
Transits are documented by sending directly an image of the number plate and related textual information (date, hour, plate number) to the vehicle screening system.
Electronic signs
When a heavy vehicle is screened as potentially overloaded, the heavy vehicle’s number plate will be displayed on a variable message sign such as this followed by the words ‘pull over now’.