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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 G9 Assessment of passenger transport programmes

G9.8 Passenger transport programme: funding and affordability

Introduction

This section refers to the criteria and considerations used by the NZTA in deciding how to support the amounts requested for each component of the passenger transport programme.

Price escalation

Consideration will be given to the price escalation used by the approved organisation to forecast budgets.

Significant forecast activities

Information on significant activities in years 4, 5 and 6 will be considered.

Funding source

The intended primary and additional funding sources for each work category in the passenger transport programme will be considered.

Where other than N funds are proposed, this must be clearly shown in LTP online.

Funding identified in relevant LTCCP

Consideration will be given to the funding identified in the relevant LTCCP.

Network condition and trends

Consideration will be given to the trends in performance measures.

Use of assessment profiles

Consideration will be given to the assessment profile for each component of the passenger transport programme and also the change in the profile with marginal changes to the activities involved.

Scaling as a result of GPS activity class funding

Consideration will be given to the total of all passenger transport programmes compared with the relevant activity class funding ranges specified in the GPS and the target amount for each activity class set by the NZTA.

If the total of all requested passenger transport programmes is greater than the target amount set by the NZTA, then the requested programmes will be scaled back. The amount of scaling for each component of the passenger transport programme will depend on the considerations listed above.