This page relates to the 2024–27 National Land Transport Programme.
This section provides information about how approved organisations and NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA; for its own activities) manage their individual programmes and activities once the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) has been adopted.
Further information about each of the topics below is available on the pages within this section.
To be considered for funding, all activities must be included in the current NLTP. However, after the NLTP has been adopted approved organisations and NZTA (for their own activities) can make a variation request to us (NZTA as investor) for activities to be added or removed from the NLTP.
Variations to activities, costs and cash flows
In order for funding to be approved, we require approved organisations and NZTA (for its own activities) to complete all mandatory fields in Transport Investment Online (TIO), to demonstrate legislative, consultation and assessment requirements have been met.
Sometimes conditions will be applied to funding approval, which must be fulfilled either before funding is released or within a specified timeframe.
All investment proposals for funding from the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF) or through the NLTP must be developed using the principles of the Business Case Approach (BCA). For improvement activities this will be through developing a business case, while for continuous programmes this will be through supporting documentation such as an activity management plan, regional public transport plan or road safety action plan.
Business Case Approach guidance
When developing proposals, incremental assessment should be used where appropriate to assess differences in cost-benefit appraisal:
Peer reviews, following our requirements, must be completed for improvement activity business cases with estimated whole-of-life costs over $20 million or where a significant level of risk is involved.
We (NZTA as investor) assess business cases at each phase in the business case process. We endorse programme business cases in full or in part to indicate that the proposal is strategically aligned; however, endorsement does not commit us to investing.
Endorsing the business case (webpage yet to come)
When allocated funds are unspent at the end of a financial year, they can generally be carried over within the 3-year NLTP period, with a cashflow or cost-scope adjustment made via the reviews module in TIO.
Unspent allocation may be carried over to the next NLTP period for specific types of activities, such as most improvements, while unspent allocation for other programmes and activities must be surplused.
End-of-year and end-of-NLTP processing
Approved organisations claim allocated funds through the claims module in TIO. We will undertake periodic audits of claims.
Claiming National Land Transport Fund share in Transport Investment Online – processes and rules
