WC 321: new traffic management facilities

This page relates to the 2024-27 National Land Transport Programme.

Introduction

Work category 321 provides for new facilities and equipment that support the safe management and operation of the road network.

Qualifying activities

Work category 321 is available to the following activity classes:

• local road improvements
• state highway improvements.

Local road and state highway improvements

Examples of qualifying activities

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

• traffic signals
• advanced traffic management systems
• variable message signs
• area-wide traffic control systems
• local-area traffic management schemes, including safety cameras and threshold treatments
• ramp metering
• surveillance devices
• traffic monitoring equipment, such as closed-circuit television systems
• digital infrastructure, digital solutions and information systems
• weighing facilities owned by a road controlling authority and/or operated as a weight surveillance facility
• stock truck effluent disposal facilities (refer to Stock Effluent Facilities Policy)

Stock Effluent Facilities Policy

• rail level crossing warning devices
• for local road projects, property purchase costs of less than $500,000 when associated with the above activities.

You can discuss with us (NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) as investor) whether other potential activities not listed above might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category.

Exclusions

The work category excludes upgrades to traffic management equipment and facilities conducted under work category 222.

Work category 222: traffic services renewals

Rail level crossing warning devices

We expect the relevant rail track authority and the road controlling authority will share equally the costs of improving rail level crossing warning devices.

Rail Crossings Policy

Where, under a deed of grant by the relevant rail track authority, the road controlling authority is required to pay the full cost of upgrade, this cost is accepted for funding assistance from the National Land Transport Fund.

An invoice from the relevant rail track authority must back up claims for funding assistance.

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate (FAR) is:

• the approved organisation's normal FAR
  Normal funding assistance rates

or

• the approved organisation’s special purpose road FAR
  Other funding assistance rates

or

• 100% of the NZTA state highway costs.

For stock effluent facilities improvements FARs, refer to the NZTA Stock Effluent Facilities Policy.

Stock Effluent Facilities Policy

Rail level crossing warning devices improvements are funded at the approved organisation's normal FAR for its share of the cost (which will depend on the deed of grant by the relevant rail track authority). Note that most (or all) level crossing activities are expected to cost less than $2 million, and can be added to the approved organisation's low-cost, low-risk programme.

Work category 341: low-cost, low-risk improvements (webpage yet to come)

Submitting activities for National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) consideration and funding approval

Approved organisations and NZTA (for its own activities) submit these activities using the improvement activity template in Transport Investment Online (TIO).

Transport Investment Online(external link)

For guidance on using TIO, see the TIO learning and guidance page on our website.

Transport Investment Online (TIO) learning and guidance