This page relates to the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme.
Work category 004 provides for funding assistance for the costs of preparing programme business cases under Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency's Business Case Approach, including supporting evidence collection and model application.
These include, but may not be limited to:
You can discuss with Waka Kotahi whether other potential activities not listed above might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category.
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The primary purpose of the programme business case is to provide robust evidence for a decision to invest in a programme of activities that will deliver optimal value for money.
The programme business case will:
The programme business case must also enable Waka Kotahi to make a preliminary assessment of:
The business problem owner should use the assessment of the business case questions to test the robustness of their prepared business case.
Activities will be developed using the programme business case and transport planning (work categories 002, 003 and 004) module in Transport Investment Online (TIO).
The module consists of two parts:
Waka Kotahi expects programme business cases to consider a range of alternative programmes and to arrive at a preferred programme justified by robust evidence.
Programmes for programme business cases constitute the projects/activities needed to deliver the optimal solution for the problems identified in the strategy level strategic case.
These may be pulled together as:
Most programmes will be spatially based, addressing issues at a sub-regional level, and will be expected to integrate across modes and organisations and with land use to the extent required to address the problem(s).
CloseAt the conclusion of the programme business case development, approved organisations and Waka Kotahi (state highways) should seek Waka Kotahi support for their completed programme business case to ensure:
Refer to the Business Case Approach guidance for further information.
When seeking support for a programme business case, the approved organisation or the Waka Kotahi (state highways) must provide an assessment for support.
Waka Kotahi assesses the completed business cases to consider whether they should be supported, by following guidance in the relevant section of the 2018-21 NLTP Assessment Framework. For example:
Waka Kotahi expects that proposals for funding assistance for a programme business base will be justified using a fit-for-purpose strategic case which:
The strategic case should include:
The usual funding assistance rate (FAR) is:
Waka Kotahi must approve any change to the scope of an approved programme business case before the approved organisation or Waka Kotahi (state highways) proceeds with the business case development.
Waka Kotahi will check the coverage and outputs of business cases against their strategic assessments.
TIO(external link) will automatically carry over the unspent allocation every year. Therefore it is vital that approved organisations and Waka Kotahi (state highways) declare any unused allocation for completed projects by making a cost-scope adjustment via the reviews module in TIO.