Draft NZTA farebox recovery policy consultation document


Draft NZTA farebox recovery policy

The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) is consulting over its:

Draft NZTA Farebox Recovery Policy

The purpose of the Draft NZTA Farebox Recovery Policy is to set out the NZTA’s proposed requirements relating to farebox recovery policy in the regions, which is to be implemented by regional councils and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA).

The Draft Farebox Recovery Policy is designed to address the following:

  • Help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public transport services
  • Ensure that the costs and benefits of providing public transport services are shared fairly between those who use public transport and those who don’t
  • Improve the transparency and consistency of the approach to farebox recovery implemented by regional councils throughout the country
  • Set out NZTA’s expectations on having a fair distribution of costs for providing public transport services
  • Arrest the decline in users’ contribution to the total cost of providing public transport services. This contribution has been falling for a number of years and is forecasted to continue to decline without intervention
  • Enable the NZTA to undertake better benchmarking and monitoring of farebox recovery ratios throughout New Zealand.

Draft Fare Policy Decision-Making Guideline

The purpose of the NZTA’s Draft Fare Policy Decision-Making Guideline is to support regional councils and ARTA to improve value for money on the investment in public transport services through a best practice process for ‘fare policy decision-making’ or reviewing fares.

Making a submission

Questions, comments and feedback can be emailed to chad.barker@nzta.govt.nz or posted to Chad Barker, Public Transport Policy Team, NZ Transport Agency, PO Box 13364, Armagh Christchurch 8141.

We encourage feedback on the questions raised throughout the consultation document. There is a complete list of questions in appendix 3 of the document. To make providing a submission easier, we have also provided these questions separately in a Word file (33 KB).

Submissions close Monday 30 November 2009.

Q&As

Consultation document

Full document: Draft NZTA farebox recovery policy (PDF, 596 KB)

1. Introduction (PDF, 126 KB)

  • 1.1 Purpose of this document
  • 1.2 Definitions
  • 1.3 NZTA consulting on both documents
  • 1.4 How this document is set out
  • 1.5 Background information
  • 1.6 Why has the NZTA produced these documents?
  • 1.7 The farebox recovery policy review
  • 1.8 Current farebox recovery ratios
  • 1.9 Farebox recovery trend for contracted services
  • 1.10 Fare policy decision-making review
  • 1.11 Interrelationship with regional public transport plans
  • 1.12 Transition period
  • 1.13 Policy evolution
  • 1.14 Details of the consultation period and process
  • 1.15 Contact details

2. Draft NZTA farebox recovery policy (PDF, 62 KB)

  • 2.1 Introduction to this section
  • 2.2 Section 1: Objectives and principles
  • 2.3 Section 2: Farebox recovery policy content
  • 2.4 Section 3: Farebox recovery ratio target
  • 2.5 Section 4: Operating principles
  • 2.6 Section 5: Farebox recovery ratio formula
  • 2.7 Section 6: Fare reviews
  • 2.8 Section 7: Reporting
  • 2.9 Further research
  • 2.10 General

3. Draft fare policy decision-making guideline (PDF, 28 KB)

  • 3.1 Purpose
  • 3.2 Feedback

Appendix 1: Draft NZTA farebox recovery policy (PDF, 53 KB)

Appendix 2: Draft fare policy decision-making guideline (PDF, 425 KB)

  • 1. Purpose
  • 2. Background
  • 3. Definition and calculation of farebox recovery
  • 4. Decision-making process
  • 5. Conclusion

Appendix 3: Complete list of consultation questions (PDF, 52 KB)

Last updated: 15 October 2009