New Zealand Guide to Temporary Traffic Management transition

As the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has retired the Code of Practice for Temporary Traffic Management (CoPTTM) and has mandated the use of New Zealand Guide to Temporary Traffic Management (NZGTTM) for all works funded or partially funded by the National Land Transport Fund, we will be transitioning to the use of NZGTTM.

For the local roads which we have legal jurisdiction of we will:

• Accept either CoPTTM or NZGTTM traffic management plans (TMPs) until 30 June 2026. This decision does not remove a PCBU obligation under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 to manage risks in association with their works.
• From 1 July 2026 we will expect all TMPs to adopt the NZGTTM approach.
• Any approved CoPTTM based TMPs will need to be migrated transitioned to NZGTTM by 1 July 2026.

If a PCBU currently has an approved CoPTTM based TMP and wishes to use NZGTTM they need to submit an updated TMP in the NZGTTM format that includes a risk assessment and follows the NZGTTM approval process. The existing CoPTTM TMP will be deemed to have taken the CoPTTM approach for its lifetime.

For clarity of staff reviewing TMPs, we ask that all applications utilise the standard forms (or forms using similar layouts) associated with CoPTTM and NZGTTM. Therefore, if a CoPTTM form is used it is assumed to take a CoPTTM approach even if there is a risk assessment included.

More information on the transition

Streetlights

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Temporary road closures    

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Roadworks

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Proposed temporary road closure

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From our partners 

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