A practical guide to assist the decision-making process in planning for community programmes.
Note: The Demand Management Community Programmes Activity class is currently under review, new guidance will be available in early in 2010.
This part of the guide supports Stage 2 of the decision-making process Analysis of activities and Stage 5 Review. The NZTA promotes the use of packages and this part of the guide prompts consideration of the relationship of one activity to another and how various individual activities might be used in packages. Important considerations include factors such as how the activities complement each other, issues associated with timing of their implementation, and their financial implications.
The activities relationship table has been populated with information for a number of key activities that are promoted by the NZTA. The intention is that this table be used as a template, but adjusted as appropriate for the organisation and the activities being analysed.
| Community programme | Seriousness and urgency | Effectiveness | Economic efficiency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project A | To what extent does evidence show that the community programme addressed an issue or problem identified in the Land Transport Management Act 2003 and New Zealand Transport Strategy 2008? Has the evidence shown other benefits to the land transport system? Has the evidence shown any unanticipated adverse effects to the land transport system? Was the urgency identified justified? |
Is it considered that alternative/complementary measures might have been preferable? Did any predicted adverse effects occur and were these managed? |
Did the community programme use resources efficiently? Are the benefits still considered sustainable? Is the community programme considered value for money? Was the community programme implemented to budget? |
| Project B | |||
| Project C |
| Activity | Explanation | Potential synergies |
|---|---|---|
| Neighbourhood accessibility plans | Projects aimed to give safe access to active and shared transport users of all ages in neighbourhood groups. | Safety improvements to intersections may be an implementation initiative. |
| Awareness and promotion/education programmes addressing safety matters including child restraints, safety belts, and safe driving and cycling may be an implementation initiative. | ||
| School and workplace travel plans can be a concurrent activity or an implementation initiative. | ||
| Programmes such as Feet First Walk to School Week, walking school buses and Bike Wise Month can be an implementation initiative. Other initiatives implemented through a neighbourhood accessibility plan are likely to improve the walking and cycling environment. | ||
| Workplace travel plans | A package of measures to encourage the choice of sustainable transport options for travel to and from work and in association with business activity. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a workplace travel plan as an implementation initiative. |
| School travel plans may influence a workplace travel plan. For example, an adult responsible for children participating in a walking school bus may have other commuter options if they are no longer dropping a child at school. | ||
| Could acknowledge responsible adult participation in a walking school bus. | ||
| Bike Wise Month could be used to promote workplace travel plans and maintain/refresh undertakings made through workplace travel plans. | ||
| Cyclist skills training programmes could be promoted through workplace travel plans. | ||
| School travel plans | A package of measures to encourage the choice of sustainable transport options for travel to and from school. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a school travel plan as an implementation initiative. |
| A walking school bus could be an implementation initiative. | ||
| Bike Wise Month could be used to maintain/refresh undertakings made through school travel plans. | ||
| Feet First Walk to School Week could be used to promote school travel plans and to maintain/refresh undertakings made through school travel plans. | ||
| Cyclist skills training programmes could be promoted through school travel plans. | ||
| Feet First walk to school | An annual event that promotes the benefits of regularly walking to and from school, and the positive impacts on health and the environment, and encourages a sustained increase in walking. | School travel plans could be promoted through the week and the week used to maintain/refresh undertakings made through school travel plans. |
| Week and concept of children walking to school could be promoted through workplace travel plans. | ||
| Week could be used to promote walking school buses, engage new members or re-engage members no longer participating. | ||
| Bike Wise month | A nationwide campaign aimed at increasing cycling among adults and children and promoting safety awareness. The Bike Wise programme currently comprises Bike Wise Month, Go By Bike Day, Bike Wise Battle and the Mayoral Challenge. | School travel plans could be promoted through the month and the Month used to maintain/refresh undertakings made through school travel plans. |
| Month and concept of children biking to school could be promoted through workplace travel plans. | ||
| Walking school buses | A walking school bus provides a fun, safe, active and sustainable way for children to travel to and from school with adult supervision. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a walking school bus as an implementation initiative. |
| School travel plans should incorporate established walking school buses. | ||
| A school travel plan could be an implementation initiative. | ||
| A workplace travel plan could acknowledge parent/caregiver participation in a walking school bus programme. |
| Activity | Explanation | Potential synergies |
|---|---|---|
| Child restraint | Programmes to: increase child restraint wearing rates through improved distribution to priority high-risk groups; ensure that the child restraint used is the correct type for the age and size of the child; and improve installation and use through education and awareness. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a child restraint programme as an implementation initiative. |
| There may be synergies with safety belt programmes and the two could be run together. | ||
| Safety belts | Programmes to: identify and address barriers to safety belt use; maintain safety belt use; and promote the benefits of safety belt use. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a safety belt programme as an implementation initiative. |
| There may be synergies with child restraint programmes and the two could be run together. | ||
| Safe with Age | A programme to target road users aged 55+ to help them recognise the effect of the ageing process on driving and to promote safe mobility. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a Safe with Age programme as an implementation initiative. |
| There may be synergies with the community alcohol action programmes and the fatigue programmes. | ||
| Young and novice driver education (Practice, Street Talk, Drive Time) | Programmes to help novice drivers develop the skills needed to become safer drivers while progressing through the graduated licence system. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a driver education programme as an implementation initiative. |
| Community alcohol action guidelines | A programme to promote sober driving in a community. Also programmes to reduce the incidence of re-offending among recidivist drink-drivers. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a community alcohol action programme as an implementation initiative. |
| Intersections | Programmes to: raise awareness of the location and causes of local intersection crashes; provide information so that road users can negotiate intersections safely; and reduce the incidence of local intersection crashes. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify an intersection programme as an implementation initiative. |
| An intersection programme could be run as an implementation initiative of a workplace or school travel plan, or as part of a walking school bus, Feet First or Bike Wise. | ||
| Cyclist skills training | Programmes to promote safe cycling. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a cyclist skills training programme as an implementation initiative. |
| A cyclist skills training programme could be an implementation initiative of a workplace or school travel plan, or Bike Wise. | ||
| Speed | Programmes to promote driving safely within the speed limits and to the traffic, road and weather conditions. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a speed programme as an implementation initiative. |
| A speed programme could be an implementation initiative of a workplace travel plan, particularly the business travel component. | ||
| Fatigue | Programmes to raise awareness of the symptoms of tiredness that signal a driver is not safe behind the wheel. It also focuses on solutions by asking people to consciously plan their journey rather than simply focusing on their destination. | A neighbourhood accessibility plan could identify a fatigue programme as an implementation initiative. |
| A fatigue programme could be an implementation initiative of a workplace travel plan. |
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