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) for inclusion in the Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP).

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 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) impacts
• Optimal investment timing
• NLTP 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 of activities proposed
• BCR and NPV assessments, where developed sufficiently