These figures exclude roads managed by The Department of Conservation, Highway and Network Operations and Waitangi Trust.
Definitions
Lane length: length of a longitudinal strip of the roadway intended for the passage of vehicles or a specific class of vehicles that is separated from other parts of the roadway by a longitudinal line or lines of paint or raised studs, which includes:
- cycle lane
- lane for the use of vehicular traffic that is at least 2.5 m wide
- lane of a two-way road divided by a centre line.
Road length: length of roads including streets, motorways (except for Territorial Authority data), beaches, places to which the public have access, all bridges, culverts, ferries, and fords forming part of a road, and all sites at which vehicles may be weighed for the purposes of the Act or any other enactment.
Local roads: roads that form a regionally strategic purpose in moving people and goods within regions. These roads are managed by local government.
State highways: roads in New Zealand that form a nationally strategic purpose in moving people and goods nationwide. State highways are a Crown asset that we manage on behalf of central government.
From the dataset Physical Statistics: Roads 2024, this data was extracted:
Sheet: Roads - StructureType
Range: E66:R420
Provided: 3,710 data points
Dataset originally released on:
September 27, 2024
About this dataset
This dataset provides information about the length of urban and rural, sealed and unsealed roads within Road Controlling Authority areas, each Region and Territorial Authority in New Zealand.