Interview questions (freight users)
| Question categories | Questions |
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| Respondent |
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| Normal operations |
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| Past disruptions |
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| Cook Strait ferry outage |
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| Potential solutions |
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| Resilience |
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| Question categories | Questions |
|---|---|
| Respondent | What are your job responsibilities? |
| Normal operations | Can you describe your normal transport operations between the North and South Islands? |
| Past disruptions | How did past natural events disrupt your transport operations? What was the impact of these disruptions and how were they addressed? What did you and your team learn from these events? |
| Cook Strait ferry outage | How would a three-month Cook Strait ferry outage impact your operations? What transport-related consequences would a two-day power outage, and five-day phone and internet outage in Wellington and Picton have? What transport-related shortages would surface during an extended Cook Strait ferry outage? What would be the weakest point(s) in NZ’s freight system during an extended Cook Strait ferry outage, and why? |
| Potential solutions | How would freight transport operations need to be adjusted to keep goods moving during the three-month ferry outage? What alternative transport modes would be used to continue moving goods between the North and South Islands? |
| Resilience | Do you think the resilience of NZ’s transport network should be improved, and if so, how? |
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