Support negotiations with all organisations at the transport programme development stage - Checklist

Introduction

This section sets out guidance and a checklist for negotiations at the transport programme development stage.

Transport programme development

Approved Organisations and the NZTA (state highways) develop programmes of the activities and combinations of activities that they propose to the relevant Regional Transport Committee (RTC A regional transport committee established under section 105 or clause 11 of schedule 7 of the LTMA. ) for inclusion in the Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP A regional land transport plan, prepared under Part 2 of the LTMA, as from time to time amended or varied. ).

During the development of transport programmes there will be an opportunity for Approved Organisations and the NZTA (state highways) to discuss the proposed contribution to outcomes to be delivered by programmes, packages and individual activities and to negotiate their content. The studies, strategies and plans that underpin the proposed programmes should form a key part of the evidence base for the negotiations.

Negotiation Checklist

These negotiations will be an opportunity for Approved Organisations and the NZTA (state highways) to test and gain preliminary feedback on:

• Alignment The horizontal or vertical geometric form of the centreline of the carriageway. with the NZTA’s Planning and Investment Principles and its Investment and Revenue Strategy
• Degree of certainty with which implementation and funding plans have been prepared
• Infrastructure investment projects (new and replacement works) as identified in planning studies
• Linkages to Government Policy Statement (GPS A Government Policy Statement on Land Transport Funding issued under section 86 of the LTMA ) impacts
• Optimal investment timing
• NLTP A National Land Transport Programme Interrelated and complementary combination of activities that, when delivered in a coordinated manner, produce synergies – can span more than one work category and more than one activity class, e.g. a programme could include a road improvement and public transport improvement activities. adopted by the NZTA under section 19 of the LTMA, as from time to time amended or varied funding availability
• Third party funding contributions and alternative funding sources
• Supporting evidence to be prepared
• Validity of forecasts
• Proposed network levels of service
• Intervention hierarchy  (asset and non-asset projects)
• Draft options and alternatives A strategic option that may encompass a mix of modes and/or high level routes and/or land use options. Alternatives would be considered during strategy development, with the preferred alternative being selected and taken through into package and project development. of activities proposed
• BCR The NZTA uses the BCR as a measure of economic efficiency from a national perspective as defined in the NZTA's Economic Evaluation Manual. The ratio compares the benefits accruing to land transport users and the wider community from implementing a project or providing a service, with that project or service's whole of life costs. and NPV Net present value (NPV) is the present value of a future benefit less the present value of the associated future cost, all benefits and costs reflecting current values without adjustment for inflation. assessments, where developed sufficiently