Coordinating New Zealand's largest urban network

The challenge

Auckland Council looks after more than 7,600 km of local roads and 1,200 bridges, serving 1.8 million people across 21 local board areas. That's around a third of the country's population on one network. It carries more work, more agencies and more public attention than anywhere else in New Zealand. Coordination that relies on email and individual knowledge does not hold up at that volume, and the consequences of a clash are visible to a lot of people very quickly.

Auckland also handles more corridor work than any other network in New Zealand. Its corridor teams receive over 2,500 new corridor access requests every month, and close to 7,000 total submissions once revisions and TMPs are counted. Auckland needed a system built to carry that load day in, day out.

How Auckland Council uses myWorksites

Auckland's road corridor team, then part of Auckland Transport, was one of the early myWorksites partners that shaped the platform back in 2016. When road controlling authority status moved back to Auckland Council in 2026, that work came with it. Today the council runs the full corridor access lifecycle on myWorksites: applications, TMP review, auditing, contractor coordination and network visibility. Clash detection and the planning map are used not just to process applications but also form part of the feedback loop for forward works planning, so programmes can be lined up before anyone applies.

Auckland System Management, the NZTA alliance that runs Auckland's motorways, is on myWorksites too, so the council's roads and the region's motorways can be seen in one view. The two networks feed and impact each other: a motorway closure pushes traffic onto local roads, and works on a local arterial can back traffic up onto an off-ramp.

With both organisations in one system, contractors and authorities can plan and coordinate work across a complex and busy set of road networks.

Why it matters for other councils

If a roading authority is nervous about the scale or complexity of their network, Auckland shows how myWorksites can support large teams on busy networks.