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International Road Federation (IRF)

Transit participates in the knowledge transfer with IRF and contributes essential statistics and data to the annual IRF World Road Statistics Publication.

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The International Road Federation (IRF) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to encourage and promote the development and maintenance of better and safer roads and road transport systems worldwide. The federation was founded in 1948 and has over 650 members worldwide.

The IRF:

  • Promotes education and understanding of the social and economic benefits to be derived from developing modern road networks, transport systems and traffic control;
  • Encourages and supports the planning and execution of economically and environmentally sound programmes to improve and extend road networks and allied systems;
  • Provides education and training programmes;
  • Co-operation with, advises and exchanges experiences with international, national and local organisations with goals similar to those of the IRF;
  • Advises on, assists and promotes the creation of national and regional road federations;
  • Collects, collates and distributes statistical, technical, economic, educational and other road-related material;
  • Stimulates and supports regional and global harmonisation of standards;
  • Supports road research;
  • Encourages and promotes improvements in road safety.

The IRF also publishes World Road Statistics, the only global compilation of road and vehicle statistics. This is based on data from official sources within national statistics offices and national road administrations in more than 200 countries.

In 2000 Transit New Zealand won the IRF's inaugural Global Road Achievement Award, in the Environmental Mitigation award category, for the 'State Highway 12 Waipoua Forest Seal Extension' project in Northland.

In 2002 Transit won the IRF Global Road Achivement Award for Environmental Mitigation a second time for Securing the Link, the upgrading of SH73 over the Southern Alps through Arthur's Pass National Park.