Developing the NLTP
The overall NLTP development process involves:
- providing guidance on strategy development and integrated planning
- defining and categorising the nature of proposals we expect to include in the NLTP
- assisting and advising organisations develop land transport activities
- delivering potential activities that are delivered nationally
- assisting and advising regional transport committees to develop their RLTP
- assessing the funding available
- receiving proposals to include land transport activities in the NLTP
- assessing land transport activities
- allocating funds to activity classes
- prioritising and programming of both regionally and nationally delivered activities
- drafting a NLTP
- assessing the NLTP
- adopting the NLTP
- publishing the NLTP.
We're committed to integrating land use and transport planning to ensure transport activities funded through the NLTP are efficient and effective. Learn more about our approach to integrated planning.
See the detailed description of the NLTP development process in our Planning & Investment Knowledge Base.
How we prioritise land transport activities
We prioritise potential land transport activities to give best effect to the Government policy statement on land transport funding (GPS) (external link).
We use the prioritisation process set out in our Planning & Investment Knowledge Base, which involves first assessing, prioritising and then programming activities.
While the programming process considers many factors, the key considerations are priority and a feasible start date. Activities with a high priority are programmed as soon as is feasible, depending on:
- the funding available over time
- the tasks that need to be undertaken before an activity can be implemented, eg selecting the scope of a future activity, completing detailed design, gaining resource consents, and purchasing any land
- the capacity of the construction sector and what other construction works are also underway or proposed to start
- the timing of pre-requisite projects or events, eg the planned development of a new suburb is about to reach the stage where road widening is warranted.
Usually, transport programmes include more activities than we expect to implement. This ensures we can maintain momentum of the overall programme in the event of any individual activities experiencing unforeseen delays.
How we consider nationally delivered activities
We assess and prioritise nationally delivered activities in a similar way to the other activities included in the NLTP. Our Planning & Investment Knowledge Base outlines the assessment and prioritising process we use. But, in simple terms, the activities included in the NLTP are those that have the highest priority and are affordable under the GPS.
Examples of nationally delivered activities include:
- road policing
- national safety promotion campaigns
- sector training and research
- advice and guidance on transport planning activity development and funding, and management of funding through the NLTF.
