This page relates to the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme.
Work category 421 provides for travel demand management activities to improve the performance of the land transport system by changing transport demand and travel behaviour.
The purpose of travel demand management is to support efficient and effective use of the transport system, and to reduce the negative impacts of travel and freight movement. Demand management activities influence how, when and where people and freight travels.
The objectives of travel demand management activities are to:
Proposals should be based on Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency-endorsed best practice guidelines and examples. This list will expand as policy and guidance is developed for this work category.
Travel demand activities will achieve their greatest impact when there is consistency in the messaging. Approved organisations and the are encouraged to plan the content and timing of local activities to coincide with activities at the national level where appropriate and possible.
To qualify under work category 421 an activity must give effect to national and local priorities identified in:
Examples of qualifying activities 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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Work category 421 excludes:
The usual funding assistance rate (FAR) is:
Non-financial contributions will not be considered part of the total project cost, and will not be eligible for financial assistance.
Approved organisations and Waka Kotahi are able to accept financial contributions from other parties as a contribution to the total cost. If the financial contribution to the activity changes the scope of that activity, the contribution will be treated as third party funding and will be deducted from the total cost before calculating the Waka Kotahi funding assistance (ie that part is not eligible for funding assistance).
An example of where third party funding has changed the scope of the activity is:
An example of where the scope is not changed and financial contributions from other parties can be counted as local share is: