This page relates to the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme.
Throughout all stages of the transport planning and project delivery process, it is essential to consider how performance will be measured. Under the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s Business Case Approach (BCA), early identification of measures for the expected benefits is a key step in planning an investment.
We have developed this list of performance measures to make it easy for us (both Waka Kotahi and our investment partners) to identify appropriate benefits and performance measures when developing business cases for transport investment.
When developing investment proposals following the BCA, you can use the list to select performance measures for benefits that have been identified in the strategic case, possibly at investment logic mapping and benefits mapping workshops.
The benefits in this list are replicated in Transport Investment Online(external link) (TIO) in the activity outline. These benefits determine available results alignment (see Developing an assessment profile for further details).
For improvement activities required to have performance measures in TIO, you can use the list to select performance measures for the main benefits of the proposed investment.
Waka Kotahi identifies and quantifies social benefits rising from a proposed investment and accounts for them in the decision process. The information captured will be used for benefits and investment reporting, and it will enable us to see over time the benefits received from land transport investments.
How to select performance measures for improvement activities:
Contact your Waka Kotahi investment advisor to discuss the suitability of measures and descriptions when developing your own.
The framework is divided into five outcome classes. These outcome classes are further divided into investment benefits with performance measures provided for each of them.
Click on the outcome classes below to access the list of performance measures or download the list. [PDF, 187 KB]
| Investment benefit | Measure no. | Measure name |
Measure description |
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Access - freight: increase/maintain |
1 | Spatial coverage – freight | Percentage completion of the strategic high productivity motor vehicle freight network |
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Financial cost of using transport: decrease/maintain |
2 | People - mode share | Number of pedestrians, cyclists, public transport boardings, and motor vehicles (excl. public transport) TIMES number of people per vehicle, expressed as percentages |
| 3 | People – throughput of pedestrians, cyclists and public transport boardings | Number of pedestrians, cyclists and public transport boardings | |
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Pricing: more efficient |
4 | User to describe | User to describe |
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Reliability – vehicles: increase/ maintain |
5 | Punctuality – public transport | Percentage of scheduled service trips between 59 seconds before and 4 minutes 59 seconds after the scheduled departure time of selected points |
| 6 | Travel time reliability – motor vehicles | Coefficient of variation; standard deviation of travel time DIVIDED BY average minutes travel time (as per Austroads) | |
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Throughput – freight: increase/maintain |
7 | Freight – mode share value | Number of vehicles TIMES average load per vehicle in NZ dollars, expressed as percentages |
| 8 | Freight – mode share weight | Number of vehicles TIMES average load per vehicle in tonnes, expressed as percentages | |
| 9 | Freight – throughput value | Number of vehicles TIMES average load per vehicle in NZ dollars | |
| 10 | Freight – throughput weight | Number of vehicles TIMES average load per vehicle in tonnes | |
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Travel time delay: decrease/maintain |
11 | Travel time delay | Difference between average travel time A and average travel time B in minutes per kilometre |
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| Investment benefit | Measure no. | Measure name |
Measure description |
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Biodiversity: support |
12 | Biodiversity | User to describe |
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Environmental noise: decrease/maintain |
13 | Noise level | Noise level in dB Laeq(24h) |
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Pollution and greenhouse gases: decrease/maintain |
14 | Ambient air quality – NO2 | Concentration of NO2 in µg/m³ |
| 15 | Ambient air quality – PM10 | Concentration of PM10 in µg/m³ | |
| 16 | Water quality | User to describe | |
| 17 | CO2 emissions | Tonnes of CO2 equivalents emitted | |
| 18 | Mode shift from single occupancy private vehicle | User to describe | |
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Resource consumption: decrease/maintain |
19 | Resource consumption | User to describe |
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| Investment benefit | Measure no. | Measure name |
Measure description |
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Pollution: decrease/ maintain |
Repeat of 14 | Ambient air quality – NO2 | Concentration of NO2 in µg/m³ |
| Repeat of 15 | Ambient air quality – PM10 | Concentration of PM10 in µg/m³ | |
| Repeat of 16 | Water quality | User to describe | |
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Health noise: decrease/maintain |
Repeat of 13 | Noise level | Noise level in dB Laeq(24h) |
| Physical health – support | 20 | Physical health benefits from active modes | User to describe |
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Safety: improve/ maintain (reduce deaths and serious injuries) |
21 | Collective risk (crash density) | Average annual fatal and serious injury crashes per kilometre of road section |
| 22 | Crashes by severity | Number of crashes by severity | |
| 23 | Deaths and serious injuries | Number of deaths and serious injuries from crashes | |
| 24 | Personal risk (crash rate) | Average annual fatal and serious injury crashes per 100 million vehicle-kilometres | |
| 25 | Road assessment rating – roads | Infrastructure risk rating | |
| 26 | Road assessment rating – state highways | KiwiRoad Assessment Programme (KiwiRAP) star rating (for state highways) | |
| 27 | Travel speed gap | Difference between safe and appropriate speed, and actual speed |
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| Investment benefit | Measure no. | Measure name |
Measure description |
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Access – people: increase/ maintain
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28 | Access - perception | Perception of safety and ease of walking and cycling |
| 29 | Access to key destinations (all modes) | Proportion of population living within travel threshold (15 minutes, 30 minutes or 45 minutes) of key social and economic opportunities (including work, education, health care, supermarkets) by different modes (walking, cycling, public transport, private motor vehicle) in the morning peak | |
| 30 | Accessibility – public transport facilities | Number of bus or train stops that are fully accessible | |
| Repeat of 18 | Mode shift from single occupancy private vehicle | User to describe | |
| 31 | Pedestrian delay | Pedestrian time lost due to intersection delay | |
| 32 | Spatial coverage – cycle lanes and paths | Percentage completion of the strategic cycle network | |
| 33 | Spatial coverage – cycling facilities | Number of people living within 500m of a high-quality cycling facility | |
| 34 | Spatial coverage – public transport – employees | Number of employees within 500m of a bus stop or 1km from a rail or bus rapid transit station | |
| 35 | Spatial coverage – public transport – resident population | Number of people living within 500m of a bus stop or 1km from a rail or bus rapid transit station | |
| 36 | Temporal availability – public transport | Public transport frequency per hour weighted by percentage of the population living within 500m of a bus stop or 1km from a rail or bus rapid transit station | |
| Amenity value: increase/maintain | 37 | Amenity value – natural environment | User to describe |
| 38 | Amenity value – built environment | User to describe | |
| Comfort and customer experience – access: improve/maintain | 39 | Ease of getting on and off public transport services | Percentage of low floor and wheelchair accessible services |
| 40 | Network condition – cycling | Percentage travel on cycle network classified as complying with defined level of service (facility type) | |
| 41 | Network condition – road | Percentage travel on road network classified as smooth as per defined level of service | |
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Community cohesion: support |
42 | Social connectedness | User to describe |
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Financial cost of using transport: decrease/maintain |
43 | Access to key destinations – all modes | User to describe |
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Reliability – people: increase/ maintain |
Repeat of 5 | Punctuality – public transport | Percentage of scheduled service trips between 59 seconds before and 4 minutes 59 seconds after the scheduled departure time of selected points |
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Throughput – people/vehicles: increase/maintain |
Repeat of 2 | People – mode share | Number of pedestrians, cyclists, public transport boardings and motor vehicles (excl. public transport) TIMES average number of people per vehicle, expressed as percentages |
| 44 | People – throughput | Number of pedestrians, cyclists, public transport boardings and motor vehicles (excl. public transport) TIMES average number of people per vehicle | |
| 45 | People – throughput (UCP) | Number of pedestrians and cyclists | |
| 46 | Traffic – mode share | Number of transport users by mode, expressed as percentages | |
| 47 | Traffic – throughput | Number of pedestrians, cyclists and motor vehicles by vehicle type | |
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Travel time: decrease/maintain |
48 | Travel time | Average travel time in minutes |
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| Investment benefit | Measure no. | Measure name |
Measure description |
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Resilience: improve/maintain |
49 | Availability of a viable alternative to high-risk and high-impact route | Percentage of high-risk, high-impact routes with a viable alternative |
| 50 | Level of service and risk | User to describe | |
| 51 | Network redundancy | Appropriate capacity in event of system disruption (including alternative routes, alternative modes, alternative destinations) | |
| 52 | Temporal availability – road | Number and duration of resolved road closures: urban >=2 hours; rural >=12 hours |
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