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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

G9.1 Overview

Introduction

This section sets out the NZTA's method of assessment of passenger transport programmes.

Reference: For a description of what is included in such a programme, see Chapter C6 Preparing passenger transport programmes.

Note: Passenger transport service improvements that fall outside of the definition of existing services are assessed as improvement projects. For detail, see Chapter G5 Assessment of improvement programmes.

Purpose and audience

Passenger transport programmes are assessed by the NZTA staff working together with regional councils (RCs) and territorial authorities (TAs), using the assessment methodology set out in this chapter. This is for the purpose of including the programmes in regional land transport programmes (RLTPs) and the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP), and for the purpose of approving the programmes for funding.

The purpose of this chapter is to give guidance on this activity.

In this chapter

This chapter contains the following sections: