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

Introduction

Work category 545 provides for existing committed ‘below-track’ improvements on the rail network.

Background

For the 2018–21 National Land Transport Programme (NLTP), work category 545 provided for activities primarily related to ‘below-track’ improvements on the rail network that enhance the reliability and capacity of the passenger rail service, enabling better access to housing and employment.

The infrastructure for the Auckland and Wellington metropolitan rail networks and inter-regional rail that began under the transitional rail activity class in the Government Policy Statement on land transport (GPS) 2018 and NLTP 2018–21 and has continued into the 2024–27 NLTP will be delivered through the public transport infrastructure activity class.

Qualifying activities

For historic information on work category 545: transitional rail infrastructure, as used in the 2018–21 NLTP, see the relevant page on this knowledge base.

2018–21 NLTP work category 545: transitional rail infrastructure

Exclusions

Any new rail infrastructure activities in metropolitan areas will use work category 563.

Work category 563: public transport facilities and infrastructure improvements - rail