Transport Insights: The world’s first national roading insights platform

Background

New Zealand’s transport sector lacked standardised quality and consistent performance reporting across all regions. Road Efficiency Group’s Transport Excellence Partnership asked Company-X to build the world’s first national evidence-based insights platform for the New Zealand transport sector.

Transport Insights consolidates roading, financial, and statistical data to empower informed investment decisions. It fosters a data-driven culture in the transport sector, ultimately benefiting transport network users nationwide.

Challenge

New Zealand’s transport sector’s lack of national standards and quality reporting posed significant challenges to ensuring consistent road user experience on the national transport network.

Solution

The world’s first national transport sector performance reporting platform was released in 2016. The first iteration of Transport Insights measured the performance of transport networks in the categories of safety, resilience, amenity, accessibility, and cost efficiency.

Reporting against a suite of 63 data quality metrics was added in 2021. The ability to measure capability and support workforce development was added in 2022 with the Asset Management Competency Framework module. The Traffic Count Estimation module was added in 2023.

Results

Transport Insights is a global pioneer in evidence-based insights for the transport sector. New features are regularly added to empower transport network operators to benchmark against national standards, and ensure investment goes where it is most needed.