Safety

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

Introduction

This page describes the safety activity class and provides links to relevant work categories and further information.

Activity class definition

The Government Policy Statement on land transport (GPS) 2024 states that this activity class is for the purpose of investment in road policing and nationally consistent and coordinated road safety promotion including road safety education programmes such as walking school buses.  

Government Policy Statement on land transport 2024(external link)

The activities funded through the safety activity class are limited to:

• road policing
• automated enforcement
• road safety promotion
• safer drivers
• safer vehicles, and
• activities that will be required in this activity class as part of the government’s road safety objectives that are under development.

Government expectations

We (NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) as investor) expect that investments from the safety activity class will contribute to the outcomes sought by the government and the Minister of Transport’s expectations set out in the GPS 2024.

Government expectations (webpage yet to come)

Qualifying for National Land Transport Programme consideration

To qualify for consideration for inclusion in the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) and subsequent approval of funding:

• any proposed activity is eligible if it meets the definition of the safety activity class in the GPS 2024 and the appropriate work category definition in this knowledge base
• all regionally delivered activities and programmes proposed for inclusion in the NLTP must also be included in a regional land transport plan (RLTP)
• approved organisations, NZTA (for its own activities) and NZ Police must comply with the NZTA Procurement manual and procurement rules, as well as any relevant standards and guidelines as listed in the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi standards and guidelines register for land transport.

Procurement manual

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi standards and guidelines register for land transport

Work categories

Safety activities described in the following work categories are eligible for inclusion :

• work category 432: safety promotion education and advertising
• work category 711: road policing and automated enforcement

Further information

For prioritisation of safety activities, see:

2024-27 NLTP Investment Prioritisation Method

For additional information on developing these activities and programmes, see the following pages:

• Developing safety promotion, education and advertising programmes (webpage yet to come)
• Road Policing Investment Programme [PDF, 506 KB]