Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) System: Foundation Principles (Micro-Credential)
Skill Standard 40515 | Level 4 | Credits 10 | Micro-Credential (MC) #5285
1) Explain the requirements for the TTM system.
2) Explain how relevant engineering principles and operational practices are applied to an activity requiring TTM.
Understand the TTM System – Not Just Your Part in It
Temporary Traffic Management involves much more than putting controls on the road.
This nationally recognised Level 4 micro-credential is designed for people who need a broader understanding of how the New Zealand TTM system works, including the people, processes, legislation, engineering principles, controls and operational practices that influence how TTM activities are planned, managed and delivered.
The programme focuses on understanding the why behind TTM, helping learners connect their own role or experience with the wider TTM system.
Training Built Around Your Workplace
For group bookings, we can contextualise workshop discussion using your organisation’s own TTM environment and, where appropriate:
- Traffic Management Plans
- risk assessments
- organisational procedures
- contracts and project requirements
- assurance/audit findings
- real TTM activities and scenarios.
This helps learners connect the wider TTM system with the decisions and responsibilities they encounter in their own roles.
Pre-Requisites
There are no prerequisite qualifications for this programme.
Learners should have relevant prior or current exposure to TTM and access to an appropriate TTM workplace or professional context. Relevant experience or exposure may come from operational TTM, planning, design, engineering, supervision, assurance, corridor management, health and safety, project management, contracting, regulatory functions or other roles that interact with TTM.
This is a theory-based programme and does not require learners to hold an operational TTM role or undertake practical TTM assessment.
Enrolling on a Work Visa
If you hold a valid visa allowing you to work in New Zealand, you may be eligible to enrol in this two-day course as a domestic learner where your employer requires the training for the work you undertake.
This course receives no TEC funding and is less than 10 days in duration.
To confirm your eligibility, please provide a copy of your current visa at the time of enrolment, and an email from your employer confirming that the training is required for your work.
Who Should Attend:
This programme is designed for operational personnel and decision-makers in TTM, as well as people who interact with, influence or have oversight of Temporary Traffic Management.
This may include:
- STMS and experienced TTM personnel
- TTM planners and designers
- Engineers
- Road Controlling Authority and corridor management personnel
- Project managers and contract managers
- Health and safety professionals
- TTM auditors and assurance personnel
- Civil and infrastructure supervisors and managers
- Contractors and client representatives
- People responsible for making decisions that influence how TTM is planned, designed, managed or delivered
This is not a practical qualification. It is a Level 4 knowledge-based programme designed to develop a broader understanding of the TTM system and how its different parts work together.
Bring Your Own TTM Context
One of the strengths of this programme is that learners come from different parts of the TTM system.
You may draw on your own workplace experience, projects, TMPs or activities during the workshop and assessment. Alternatively, real or realistic TTM scenarios can be used.
You do not need to undertake practical TTM activities as part of the assessment.
This makes the programme suitable not only for operational TTM personnel, but also for engineers, planners, RCA personnel, managers and others whose role involves interacting with or overseeing TTM.
Inside the Programme:
This two-day facilitated workshop builds an understanding of the Temporary Traffic Management system and how its different parts work together.
Through trainer-led learning, discussion, industry examples and real or realistic TTM scenarios, the programme covers:
- The TTM framework – people, processes, equipment, Traffic Management Plans (TMPs) and contracts, and how each supports an activity requiring TTM.
- Legislation and regulatory requirements – how relevant legislation influences the way TTM activities are planned, managed and carried out.
- Roles and responsibilities – the responsibilities of people involved in TTM and how different roles contribute to the planning, coordination and oversight of TTM activities.
- Engineering principles – how principles such as road geometry, sight and stopping distances, traffic variables and behaviour, available space, delays, merging and systems of control influence TTM.
- TTM controls – the function and purpose of controls, their impact on workers and road users, and how they are installed, operated, maintained and uplifted.
- Operational practices – how TTM is planned, implemented, monitored, adjusted, maintained and removed, and how these practices align with the TMP, regulatory requirements and organisational procedures.
- Documentation and reporting – the regulatory and organisational documentation and reporting requirements associated with TTM activities.
Assessment is completed progressively throughout the programme, allowing learners to apply their understanding as each area is covered.
Booked the Training Programme? What happens next…
- Once you have booked the programme, the learner will receive an email to complete online enrolment, and once complete the employer will get notification that the learner has been accepted onto the programme.
- Attend the two day facilitated workshop, delivered either face to face or live online.
- Once the assessment has been completed, you will be advised whether you have successfully achieved the programme requirements. If you have not yet achieved, you will be given further opportunity to complete the required assessment evidence.
- Learners who require additional time to complete or clarify outstanding assessment evidence will be provided with further opportunity in accordance with Elite Safety Training’s assessment procedures..
Pricing & Payment:
- Cost – $890+GST per person. Contact us for group booking charges.
- An invoice will be generated, and payment is required by due date on the invoice.
- All workshops must be paid in full prior to attending unless you have an arrangement with us.
Cancellations:
There are limits on how many trainees can attend each workshop, so we do have wait lists for workshops. Because of this we have a cancellation policy, which is in place to make sure that if there is a cancellation there is enough time to be able to fill your space before the workshop. You can find our full Terms and Conditions and Cancellation Policy at the bottom of this page.
Programme Locations:
We travel where you are! We’ve got you covered across Aotearoa New Zealand! If you don’t see a public workshop advertised near you get in touch with us as we are always updating locations, and can come to you for group bookings!
If you have 5+ employees that you would like to enrol, get in touch with us direct to see if we can provide the training in your place of work.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
No. Skill Standard 40515 is not a practical STMS qualification or STMS competency assessment.
It is a Level 4 knowledge-based programme focused on understanding the wider TTM system, including legislation, roles and responsibilities, engineering principles, TTM controls and operational practices.
The Skill Standard 40515 TTM Foundation Principles programme is designed for operational personnel, decision-makers and other people who work within, interact with, influence or have oversight of Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) in New Zealand.
This may include STMS and experienced TTM personnel, TTM planners and designers, engineers, Road Controlling Authority (RCA) and corridor management personnel, project and contract managers, health and safety professionals, auditors and assurance personnel, civil and infrastructure supervisors and managers, contractors and client representatives.
The programme is particularly relevant for people who need a broader understanding of how the New Zealand TTM system works, including the legislation, roles and responsibilities, engineering principles, TTM controls and operational practices that influence how TTM activities are planned, managed and delivered.
You do not need to hold an operational TTM role to attend.
The Skill Standard 40515 TTM Foundation Principles programme is a Level 4, 10-credit programme that develops an understanding of the wider Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) system in New Zealand.
The programme covers the TTM framework, legislation, roles and responsibilities, engineering principles, TTM controls, operational practices, Traffic Management Plan (TMP) requirements, and documentation and reporting.
It is designed to help learners understand how the different parts of the TTM system work together and influence the planning, management and delivery of activities requiring TTM.
No. You do not need to be an STMS or hold an operational TTM role to complete Skill Standard 40515.
The programme is suitable for people working across different parts of the TTM system, including operational personnel as well as planners, designers, engineers, managers, RCA personnel, health and safety professionals, auditors, assurance personnel, contractors and clients.
Learners should have relevant prior or current exposure to TTM and access to an appropriate TTM workplace or professional context. Relevant experience or exposure may come from operational TTM, planning, design, engineering, supervision, assurance, corridor management, health and safety, project management, contracting, regulatory functions or other roles that interact with TTM.
The Skill Standard 40515 TTM Foundation Principles programme is currently delivered face-to-face. Live online delivery is planned for the future.
The Skill Standard 40515 TTM Foundation Principles programme is delivered through a two-day facilitated workshop.
Learning and assessment activities are completed progressively during the workshop. Where further evidence or clarification is required, learners may be given additional time to complete outstanding assessment requirements in accordance with Elite Safety Training’s assessment procedures.
If you do not meet the assessment requirements on your first attempt, Elite Safety Training will discuss the outcome with you and provide guidance on any additional learning, evidence, reassessment opportunities, or support that may be available.
Yes. Where all programme and assessment requirements have been successfully completed, Elite Safety Training will report the achievement of Skill Standard 40515 and micro credential 5285 to NZQA.
Learners must have a valid National Student Number (NSN) before credits can be reported.
Successful learners achieve:
Skill Standard 40515 – Explain the requirements for the temporary traffic management system
Level 4 | 10 credits
Successful learners also achieve Elite Safety Training’s Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) System: Foundation Principles Micro-Credential (5285).
Achievement is reported to NZQA and recorded on the learner’s New Zealand Record of Achievement (NZRoA).
There are no prerequisite qualifications for the Skill Standard 40515 TTM Foundation Principles programme.
Learners should have relevant prior or current exposure to TTM and access to an appropriate TTM workplace or professional context. This may be through operational TTM, planning, design, engineering, supervision, assurance, corridor management, project management, health and safety, contracting, regulatory functions or another role that interacts with TTM.
No. Skill Standard 40515 is assessed through knowledge and understanding rather than practical TTM competency.
Learners explain and apply their understanding using real or realistic activities requiring TTM. They may draw on their own TTM workplace experience or professional context, relevant workplace examples or realistic TTM scenarios.
Learners are not required to personally install, operate or supervise TTM as part of the assessment.
Assessment for Skill Standard 40515 is completed progressively throughout the programme and consists of five integrated assessment tasks.
The assessment covers the TTM framework; legislative requirements; roles and responsibilities; engineering principles and TTM controls; and operational practices, TMP requirements, documentation and reporting.
Assessment evidence is primarily provided through structured responses, with verbal responses and professional conversation available where appropriate.
Learners develop an understanding of the New Zealand Temporary Traffic Management system and how its different components work together.
The programme covers people, processes, equipment, TMPs and contracts; relevant legislation; TTM roles and responsibilities; engineering principles; TTM controls and their lifecycle; operational practices; and regulatory and organisational documentation and reporting requirements.
The focus is on understanding why TTM decisions are made and how those decisions influence activities requiring TTM.
Yes. Engineering principles relevant to Temporary Traffic Management are a key part of Skill Standard 40515.
Learners explore principles including road geometry, sight and stopping distances, traffic variables and behaviour, available road space, delays and merging, tapers and systems of control, and how relevant engineering principles influence TTM activities.
The programme is designed to develop understanding of these principles in a TTM context; it is not training learners to become traffic engineers.
Yes. Learners explore how TTM controls are selected and managed as part of an activity requiring Temporary Traffic Management.
This includes understanding the function and purpose of controls, their impact on workers and road users, and how controls are installed, operated, maintained and removed or uplifted.
Examples may include temporary signs, cones and delineation devices, barriers and protective devices, portable traffic signals and arrow boards.
Yes. Elite Safety Training can deliver the Skill Standard 40515 TTM Foundation Principles programme for groups and organisations.
Where appropriate, workshop discussion can be contextualised using the organisation’s TTM environment, projects, Traffic Management Plans, risk assessments, procedures, contracts and real TTM activities.
This allows learners to connect the wider TTM system with the decisions, responsibilities and TTM activities relevant to their own organisation.
You must be a NZ citizen, permanent NZ resident.
If you hold a valid visa allowing you to work in New Zealand, you may be eligible to enrol in this two-day course as a domestic learner where your employer requires the training for the work you undertake.
To confirm your eligibility, please provide a copy of your current visa and an email from your employer confirming that the training is required for your work.
