In Transit - June 1996 No. 74 - Quality Management

This edition of the InTransit newsletter focused on Transit New Zealand adopting the 1980s/1990s management trend of Total Quality Management (TQM). This was starting to go out of fashion in the United States at the time of this newsletter, as it was replaced with ISO9000 standards (mentioned in the primary article) and the Six Sigma approaches to management. 

Besides a description of how the agency adopted quality assurance, was an article celebrating the increase in the budget approved for Transit New Zealand enabling the BCR funding threshold to be lowered to 4.5 in 1996/1997 and 4 in 1997/1998, which reflected the Government's confidence in the standards of capital projects to be approved for funding by the new funding agency, Transfund New Zealand. 

Other elements of this newsletter are:

• Description of the forthcoming Roads 96 conference including mention of the Land Transport Pricing Study, an epic piece of pioneering work to establish the costs including externalities, of land transport and the how these costs were paid or attributed;
• Transit's interest in trialling an Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) for Auckland, which would subsequently be implemented.
• Local authority survey of safety; and
• An image of an on-street party celebrating the relocation of SH1 in Timaru from the CBD to the bypass route recently opened (which despite the caption is not a motorway). 

In Transit June 1996

In Transit June 1996

In Transit June 1996

In Transit June 1996