Transportation Laboratory Equipment

• Bitumen viscosity, aging and penetration test equipment
• British Pendulum Skid Resistance tester
• Polished Stone Tester (accelerated weathering of sealing chips)
• Gyratory and Marshall compaction of asphaltic concrete specimens
• Indirect Tensile Modulus and creep testing of asphaltic concrete specimens
• Vibratory compaction of unbound granular material specimens
• Repeated Load Triaxial Testing of unbound granular specimens
• Loadman Portable Falling Weight Deflectometer device
• Real-time Traffic monitoring suite
• MetroCount traffic counting and speed measuring equipment
• Autoscope vehicle image processing camera
• Handheld laser speed gun
• TIRTL infrared traffic logger
• Psion handheld data collection devices
• Various other traffic measurement equipment (tubes, lasers, etc)

Note: Some of this equipment is available for hire by consultants; contact the Lab Manager for further details.

Transportation Computer Software Available

• PLUTO - analysis of transport policy options
• TransCAD - GIS modelling of transport networks
• SATURN - mesoscopic simulation and assignment of traffic in road networks
• Paramics - microscopic simulation and visualisation of individual vehicles in road networks
• SIDRA - analysis of intersection performance (priority/roundabout/signalised)
• CAS - NZ Transport Agency crash database analysis and reporting
• TRARR - rural road traffic simulation
• TRIPS, TRACKS, QRS - macroscopic transport network planning
• IHSDM - safety modelling of highway geometric designs
• EEM - NZ Transport Agency project economic evaluation
• ABAQUS - finite element modelling of pavements
• CIRCLY - elastic analysis of pavement layers
• 12D - geometric road design and layout