Presentation November 2003

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• Road Controlling Authorities Forum
• November 2003
• Presentation by
• Wayne Donnelly, Chief Executive

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Transfund allocation process

• New Zealand Transport Strategy
• Land Transport Management Act
• Transfund allocation process
• Transition for 2004/2005

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New Zealand Transport Strategy

• Objectives
• Assisting economic development
• Assisting safety and personal security
• Improving access and mobility
• Protecting and promoting public health
• Ensuring environmental sustainability

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New Zealand Transport Strategy - context
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The common themes

• Improved system performance
• Promoting all modes
• Reduced reliance on motor vehicles
• Improved energy efficiency
• Reduced adverse effects

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Specific features

• Economic growth not translated to transport
  growth
• Education and enforcement for safety in all modes
• Pricing and investment priorities are promotion
  tools
• Efficiency of existing networks
• Contributing to healthy communities and human
  interaction

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Transfund funding allocation past
Organisation Strategies
Delivery
National LandTransport Programme
Projects pass BCR test

Projects
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Transfunds funding allocation future
New Zealand Transport Strategy
Organisation Land Transport Programmes
Programme contributes to all NZTS objectives
Government Priorities

National LandTransport Programme
Delivery
Activities take into account all NZTS objectives
Activities Packages
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Common requirements
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The Transfund allocation process

• Transfund expects activities proposed for
  inclusion in its funding programme to

• be presented in a strategic context
• be linked to complementary activities
• be integrated with land use and use of all modes
• have been thoroughly considered against other
  options
• be assessed in context of travel demand
  management
• be assessed for effect on the NZTS objectives

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The Transfund allocation process

• Transfund expects activities proposed for
  inclusion in its funding programme to have come
  from processes with

Principles of Attributes of   Integration For
ward looking   Sustainability Collaborative   Res
ponsiveness Accountable   Safety Evidence
based
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How it can work

• Transfund will work with organisations during
  planning and strategy processes
• The principles and attributes form a brief for
  Transfunds role
• The focus of Transfund will be
• forward integrated planning
• quantification of performance of options
• funding plans behind strategies
• meeting requirements on Transfund

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Transfund allocation process
Stage 1
FORMULATION
Stage 2
ASSESSMENT
Stage 6
MONITORING
Stage 3
PRIORITISATION
Stage 5
APPROVAL
Stage 4
PROGRAMMING
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Building a programme - NLTP
Integrated sustainable
national transport system
Rail freight
Rail freight
Public
Public
Local
Local
transport
transport
roads
roads
Integrated
Integrated
sustainable
State
Land
State
State
Land
sustainable
regional
highways
use
highways
highways
use
district
transport
network
system
Travel
Travel
demand
demand
Walking
Walking
management
management
cycling
cycling
Coastal
Coastal
shipping
shipping
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Transfund allocation process
New policy October 2003
December 2003
June 2004
Adopted
Interim
Draft
Formal consultation
Discussion with sector
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Transfund allocation process
Arrangements for 2004/2005 NLTP
October 2003
December 2003
June 2004
Organisaion proposals received
Preliminary Instructions
Adopted 2004/2005 NLTP
Preparation of 2004/2005 NLTPDiscussions with
orgnisations with proposals gt 3m
Requirements for proposals gt 3madded to
instructions
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Current land transport profile
Other
Public Transport
State Highways
Local Roads
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Current land transport profile

• Maintenance 870m - 56
• Projects over 3m 150m - 10
• Management of maintenance key contributor to NZTS
  objectives

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The FAR

• Scoping study results August 2003
• Full-scale review not warranted
• Further work is there a case for
• increasing range for FAR
• lifting FAR overall
• increasing FAR for improvements
• establishing an intermediate road category

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Sharing the information

• What has been happening 1992 2002?
• Average rate of change per year
• Gross domestic product 2.8
• Transfund revenue 2.5
• Population growth 1.0
• Car and van registrations 5.5
• Commercial vehicle registrations 3.0
• Vehicle kilometres travelled 2.4-3.0
• TLA total revenue 2.4
• TLA rates 2.4
• Land values 5.8

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Sharing the information
TLAs

• Urban Mixed Rural
• Vehicle kilometres 2.7 3.0 2.4
• Total TLA revenue 2.1 2.9 2.6
• Total TLA rates 2.6 2.8 2.0
• Land Values 5.6 6.4 6.0
• Maintenance expenditure 3.1 2.3 1.9
• Condition of network ve ve ve
• Improvements expenditure -6.3 -3.1 -8.7
• Projected population growth
• 2001-2020 Total 27.4 14.5 -5.1

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Two issues for Board

• The new policy context
• role of the FAR
• national versus regional
• Results of analysis
• overall FAR
• improvements FAR