This work category provides for new facilities and equipment that support the management and operation of the road network.
Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to new and improved:
Other potential activities not shown above should be discussed with the Transport Agency for eligibility.
Upgrades to traffic management equipment and facilities conducted under work category 222: Traffic services renewals to upgrade old standard equipment to the appropriate level of service.
The Transport Agency expects that the relevant rail track authority and the road controlling authority will share equally the costs of improving rail level crossing warning devices.
Where, under a deed of grant by the relevant rail track authority, the road controlling authority is required to pay the full cost of upgrade, this cost is accepted for funding assistance from the NLTF.
An invoice from the relevant rail track authority must back up claims for funding assistance.
The usual funding assistance rate is:
For stock effluent facilities improvements FARs, refer to the Transport Agency's stock effluent facilities policy.
Rail level crossing warning devices improvements will be funded at 100% for the 2015-18 National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) and then at a rate to be determined thereafter. Note that for Approved Organisations, all rail level crossing warning devices improvement funding should be applied for as a separate activity (regardless of cost) to allow the FAR to be set to 100%, i.e. they are exception to the rule that activities costing less than $300k should included in the Minor Improvements programme.
Applications for funding approval of proposed projects should be made through the 'Improvement activity' module in Transport Investment Online(external link) (TIO). To be eligible for NLTF funding, any new activity must be added to the relevant Regional Land Transport Plan and to the NLTP.
Transport Investment Online (TIO) will automatically carryover the unspent allocation every year. It is vital that Approved Organisations and the Transport Agency (state highways) declare as surplus any unused allocation for completed projects by making a cost scope adjustment via the Reviews module in TIO.
