Work category 321: New traffic management facilities

Introduction

This work category provides for new facilities and equipment that support the management and operation of the road network.

This definition applies to the 2012-15 NLTP.  For the 2015-18 NLTP please refer to the updated definition for work category 321.

Examples of qualifying activities

Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to:

• traffic signals
• Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS)
• Variable Message Signs (VMS)
• area-wide traffic control systems
• Local Area Traffic Management Schemes (LATMS), including speed control devices and threshold treatments
• ramp metering
• surveillance devices
• traffic monitoring equipment, such as closed-circuit television systems
• weighing facilities owned by a Road Controlling Authority (RCA) and/or operated as a weight surveillance facility
• stock-truck effluent disposal facilities (refer to stock effluent facilities policy)
• for local road projects property purchase costs less than $50,000.

Other potential activities not shown above should be discussed with the NZTA for eligibility.

Exclusions

Miscellaneous upgrades to traffic management equipment and facilities that should be conducted under work category 222: Traffic services renewals.

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate for this work category, apart from stock effluent facilities, is:

• the Approved Organisation’s construction rate,
• the Approved Organisation's special purpose roads construction rate, and
• 100 percent for the NZTA (state highways)

The policy and funding assistance rates for stock effluent facilities is available here.

End of year carryover

Transport Investment Online (TIO) will automatically carryover the unspent allocation every year.  Therefore it is vital that Approved Organisations and the NZTA (State Highways) declare the unused allocation for completed projects by making a cost scope adjustment via the Reviews module in TIO.

NB A future upgrade to TIO will allow the project to be marked as completed.