Development of Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency nationally delivered programmes

Legislative requirements for inclusion of nationally delivered activities into the NLTP are set out in section 19C f) ii) (external link) (external link)of the Land Transport Management Act (LTMA).

This concerns Waka Kotahi activities that are delivered at a national level. If a nationally delivered activity includes a local trial, this local component should be included in the overarching national programme.

Activities that are specifically delivered region by region must be included into a regional land transport plan (RLTP). 

Waka Kotahi will apply its planning and investment principles in developing its transport programmes and activities.

Waka Kotahi will use the Business Case Approach for all new activities developed for the NLTP. 

All activities that are proposed for funding assistance under the NLTP must be supported by robust evidence. 

Robust evidence is to be provided in Transport Investment Online fields and uploaded supporting information, including strategies, business cases, activity management plans, regional passenger transport plans, economic evaluation worksheets, etc.

Further detailed evidence, particularly for programmes, may be required to be presented during NLTP and business plan negotiations.

When developing activities, Waka Kotahi must ensure that required fields in Transport Investment Online(external link) must be completed with the information relevant to the activity's business case stage and its readiness for either NLTP inclusion or funding approval. 

Waka Kotahi will monitor the impacts of its land transport investments through investment performance measures.  The Investment performance measurement pages provide further information on which activities must have performance measures and Waka Kotahi measurement framework which includes a range of performance measures.

Waka Kotahi requires that the Road safety audit procedures must be applied to the development of any improvement or renewal activity that involves vehicular traffic, and/or walking and/or cycling, proposed for funding assistance from the NLTP.  The Road safety audit page provides details of when the audits must be undertaken or how to declare an exception.

Waka Kotahi will structure its national programmes by:

• Activity class - which will be largely managed through the use of the correct Transport Investment Online module.
• Programme business cases - complex activities or combinations of activities that target a defined national problem should be identified and linked to a programme business case under the Business Case Approach.
• Programmes – comprising routine, low risk activities that are delivered in a continuous manner, eg road safety promotion programme.

Waka Kotahi is required to use the Investment Assessment Framework (IAF) to determine the assessment profiles of its activities, and to inform its decisions to submit activities for inclusion in the NLTP

Each activity will also be assessed by Waka Kotahi using the IAF. The resulting assessment profile is used to ascertain the activity’s priority for inclusion and programming in the NLTP. 

Waka Kotahi’s prioritisation of activities for programming in the NLTP utilises the priority orders, which sets out the assessment profiles in descending order of profile.