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Planning, programming and funding manual

Published: 25 08 2008

The Planning, programming and funding manual sets out the NZTA's policies, procedures and guidance for the planning and management of land transport activities that can be funded from the national land transport fund.

This manual will guide the 2009/10–2011/12 regional land transport programmes (RLTPs) and the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) – the first three-year transport programmes. It sets out policy and procedures for developing and managing the RLTPs and NLTP during those cycles.

The manual was also used to manage the 2008/09 NLTP.

The procedures described in this manual have been developed to assist approved organisations to prepare and plan projects and activities for which they seek funding from the NZTA, within the framework of the NZTA’s overall funding allocation process.

The Planning, programming and funding manual is also available in PDF, either as the whole document or in parts. The PDF version is the master document.

Note: The online version and PDF section for the Planning, programming and funding manual now incorporate the changes from Amendment 1 and is effective from 1 July 2009.

Chapter C10 Assessment and optimisation

C10.1 Overview

Introduction

A regional land transport programme (RLTP) must contain an assessment of each activity or combination of activities included in the RLTP prepared by the organisation that identifies or proposes the activity or combination of activities.

This chapter outlines assessment and optimisation of activities and combinations of activities.

Project optimisation is an iterative process of formulation and assessment and encompasses therefore both the formation and assessment stage of the six-stage approach (for detail, see section A1.4).

In this chapter

This chapter contains the following sections: