This guide explains how to use the Road Management tools to propose a change of road management.

This guide describes how to select new candidate managers and submit an offer for them to accept or reject.

This guide also highlights how private roads and co-managed roads appear in the Road Management tools under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL).

NHVR Portal (NHVR Go) account with Road Manager access.

Access to the Road Management tools in NHVR Go (under Roads and assets).

Authority within your organisation to propose changes to road managership.

1. Open NHVR Go in your browser and log in with your Road Manager account.
2. Click the three lines at the top right of the screen to open the menu.

3. Select Access management, then select Road management.

4. Use the search and map tools on the home screen to locate the road segment(s) you want to update. Zoom in until the tools in the centre of the screen are active for selecting specific roads.

5. Select a road segment. The left-hand panel shows:

a) The current road manager.

b) A list of potential candidate managers for managership transfer (for example State Road manager, private parties and nearby road managers, including your own organisation).

6. Change the proposed manager for the selected segment(s):

a) To change a single segment, select the new manager directly for that segment.

b) To change multiple segments at once, use the Change All function at the top to apply the same proposed manager across all selected segments.

7. If appropriate, use the available option to nominate a road as co-managed instead of transferring it to a single manager. (Further details on co-managed roads are covered in related guidance.)

8. Review the list of selected segments and the proposed new manager or co-management settings.
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9. Click Submit to submit the proposed change of managership.

10. Once saved:

a) An email is sent to the receiving party outlining the proposed change.

b) An in-system notification is created for the recipient so they can review and either accept or decline the proposal.

11. The proposed change remains with the original manager until both parties have agreed. The system records the proposal in the Road Update Requests (RUR).

The Road Management tools use an offer-and-acceptance model: both the proposing and receiving parties must agree before a change is committed.

Lists of candidate managers are filtered so that you generally see only realistic geographic options, rather than every possible road manager.

Private roads appear in the list where managership sits with parties not deemed to be road managers under the HVNL (for example private dwellings or third parties such as toll road operators). Under the HVNL, it is the responsibility of the operator to request access on these private roads.

If you propose a co-managed arrangement instead of a full transfer, both managers will later need to grant consent for Network Update Requests that include those segments.

Check your organisation’s internal delegations and policies before proposing changes to managership.

Contact the NHVR Road Management support or Network Management team if you need help understanding candidate managers or co-managed arrangements.

Claiming unmanaged roads – How to identify unmanaged roads and claim managership for your organisation

Accepting or rejecting a road managership request – How to review and decide on an incoming road managership change request

Managing co managed roads – How to set up, modify or remove co managed road arrangements and understand their impact on permits and Network Update Requests

Withdrawing a road managership request – How to withdraw a road managership request that was created in error

Managing co managed roads – How to set up, modify or remove co managed road arrangements and understand their impact on permits and Network Update Requests