WC 531: Public transport infrastructure improvements and major renewals

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This page relates to the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme.

Introduction

Work category 531 provides for the capital cost of all new or improved public transport facilities and infrastructure, exceeding $1,000,000 per activity, and like-for-like replacement/renewal of public transport facilities and infrastructure of more than $5 million total cost per activity.

Qualifying activities

Examples of qualifying activities
Examples of qualifying activities (primarily related to catering for contracted services) include, but may not be limited to:
- rail stations, interchanges or terminals, shelters and ferry berthing facilities
- like-for-like replacement of public transport facilities and infrastructure with a total cost of more than $5 million per activity
- bus parking facilities
- bus or transit lane/priority improvements, and busways
- enabling work required to accommodate public transport on existing carriageways
- IT system implementation and upgrades, including electronic ticketing and real-time system infrastructure
- safety and security installation and upgrades
- signalling upgrades for the efficient operation of bus or ferry services
- park and ride infrastructure including cycle storage facilities
- pedestrian and cycle access to public transport services
- loan repayments and servicing costs related to public transport infrastructure as agreed by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
- property purchase – see Property purchase section below.
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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Exclusions
Work category 531 excludes:
- infrastructure and service improvements costing under $1,000,000 per activity and funded under the approved organisation’s normal funding assistance rate (FAR), these are provided for under work category 532: Low cost, low risk public transport improvements
- like-for-like replacement and renewal of public transport facilities and infrastructure of up to $5 million per activity - these are provided for under work category 514: Public transport facilities operations and maintenance
- the operation and maintenance of technology based systems, these are provided for under work category 524: Public transport information supply, operations and maintenance
- rail facilities related to tracks, traction equipment or signals required for the operation of passenger rail services
- rolling stock accommodated as improvements operationalised across the life of the infrastructure within work category 515: Passenger rail services
- facilities not owned by an approved organisation, unless there is an executed agreement on its public use and charges for use
- infrastructure provision to cater for commercial passenger transport services not captured in a regional public transport plan.
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Property purchase

Funding for property purchases for public transport infrastructure improvements is assisted under work category 531. The principles and conditions set out in the relevant work category below apply to property purchases for this work category:

Where the property purchase cost for a project exceeds $500,000, a property phase must be set up in Transport Investment Online(external link) (TIO). Where the property cost is up to $500,000, the cost may be included in the construction/implementation phase.

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate (FAR) is:

the approved organisation's normal FAR.
100% of Waka Kotahi state highway costs.

Applying for funding approval

Applications for funding approval should be made through:

the improvement activity module in Transport Investment Online(external link) (TIO).

End-of-year carryover

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 as surplus the unused allocation for completed projects by making a cost-scope adjustment via the reviews module in TIO.

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