User:Quilt Phase/Sandbox/NZ Transport Waka Kotahi stats

Below are tables of number of occurrences of phrases in NZ news articles, in headlines and body, by year. The counts are derived from a Google search for the first 10 "relevant" NZ news articles per year containing the phrase "transport agency". Excluded: Non-reliable news sources, government & local government news releases. NZ Transport Agency - best argument is that NZTA is used in Google search engine, and it also appears in reliable sources.

NZTA - we do not use acronyms as article titles unless that use is pervasive, eg BBC.

New Zealand Transport Agency - no-one is arguing for this but it is the legal name for the agency.

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is what the agency calls itself and is its trading name. This could be a compromise article title - I feel it fails the concision test.

Waka Kotahi is the prevalent common name used in reliable sources, although is often introduced as "Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency". Sources also refer to "the NZ Transport Agency", and "the transport agency" or "the agency" once introduced. Prevalent use in news headlines is now "Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency", "Waka Kotahi" or "Transport Agency". There are abundant reliable news sources that now exclusively refer to the agency as "Waka Kotahi". Use by reliable sources of "NZ Transport Agency" without the appearance of "Waka Kotahi" are vanishingly small in the last six months, and is mostly by Local Democracy reporters on the West Coast.