Training and education

Access Essentials

The framework developed for the Access Essentials course identified a range of capabilities critical to the role of local authority road managers in assessing heavy vehicle access over bridges and culverts.

The following 3 modules are now available for road managers to use, with another one to follow in early 2025.

Module 1 – The Road Manager’s Role

Module 2 - Bridge and Culvert Basics

Module 3 – Bridge and Heavy Vehicle Interactions

Module 4 – Using the SLGAAP Report for Access Decision Making – early 2025

Resources

SLGAAP Key Terms (PDF, 157KB)

Webinars

The below videos link to YouTube directly and focus on road manager responsibilities in the NHVR. If you have restrictions within your council for YouTube, you can locate all the embedded videos on Local government videos.

SLGAAP road manager webinars

To support road managers in undertaking heavy vehicle assessments of their bridge and culvert assets, the NHVR ran a series of webinars from July-August 2021.

Webinar 1 - Introduction to the Strategic Local Government Asset Assessment Project

Webinar 2 - Basic Vehicle and Bridge Interactions

Webinar 3 - Bridge Assessment Framework

Webinar 4 - Tier 1 Assessments

Webinar 5 - Interpreting Engineering Reports for Access Decision Making

Webinar 6 - Vehicles and Route Assessment

Webinar 7 - Applying Conditions for Heavy Vehicle Access

Webinar 8 - NHVR Portal Digital Asset Management

Webinar 9 - Pre-approvals for key routes

Technical assessment webinars

Technical information webinars for road managers that may be of interest when assessing assets for Class 1 and PBS vehicles:.

Road Access