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)
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 networksUndertaking traffic surveys
- 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
testing facility (in conjunction with the New Zealand Transport Agency).
Some equipment is available for hire. Please contact our lab manager:
