| Consultation closed Thursday 16 October 2025. |
The draft guidance for NZTA‘s Decision-led approach to project development was published 9 September 2025. We sought feedback from consultants who’ve already piloted the approach on recent investment cases for infrastructure projects so that we can further refine the document before we publish the final guidance.
We’re making the way we plan and deliver state highway infrastructure projects more efficient and effective.
Taking a decision-led approach to develop state highway infrastructure projects is one of the ways we’re improving how we set up our projects to support faster, cost-effective outcomes. Decision-led helps drive clear management of project scope, budget and risk.
We’re currently using the approach to support the successful delivery of the Roads of National Significance (RoNS) and the Northwest Busway project.
As of July 2025 this approach is being applied across NZTA state highway infrastructure projects.
After prototyping the approach on several investment cases over the last year, we’ve prepared the first edition draft of the Decision-led guidance document which focusses on the investment case phase within the state highways infrastructure project lifecycle.
For more information and to see the draft guidance visit the Decision-led approach page on our website:
To further refine the guidance, we collected feedback from those who’ve used the approach. Feedback was guided by the following questions:
This consultation closed on 16 October 2025.
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