Land Transport NZ's allocation process

Land Transport NZ has developed a process for allocating funding in accordance with the LTMA. The allocation process is outlined below.

Stage 1: formulation

Approved organisations formulate land transport programmes and identify funding options. Land Transport NZ encourages approved organisations to discuss and seek funding for proposals that contribute to the process of the LTMA.

Stage 2: assessment

Approved organisations are required to assess their proposals in terms of the LTMA, using forms that lead to a consideration of the relevant requirements as specified in the LTMA. Land Transport NZ reviewed the assessment and assigned a profile to each proposal covering the:

• seriousness and urgency of the issue or problem being addressed
• effectiveness of the proposed solution in contributing to Land Transport NZ objectives and the outcomes of the LTMA
• economic efficiency of the proposal.

Stage 3: prioritisation

Land Transport NZ uses the profiles to assist the prioritisation, having regard to the provisional allocation of funds to each activity class and the specific prioritisation processes applying to certain activity classes.

Stage 4: programming

Programming is the final step leading to the production of the NLTP. It involves a balancing by Land Transport NZ of the priority order of proposals with the estimated revenue and proposed allocation to activity classes.

Stage 5: approval of funding of activities

• Before approving funding of an activity or activity class, Land Transport NZ verifies the assessments made in stage 2 and ensures all other requirements of the LTMA are met. 

Stage 6: monitoring and review

Land Transport NZ monitors the implementation of the NLTP through:

• assisting, advising and coordinating the development of performance monitoring tools for approved organisations
• performance monitoring of selected elements of the transport system
• monitoring the effectiveness of the overall programme at the strategic outcome level
• auditing packages of integrated proposals where appropriate monitoring of individual activities within the NLTP.
  

As a result of its monitoring process, Land Transport NZ will assist and advise approved organisations to review their land transport programmes to make them more effective in future years.

Page created: 30 June 2005
Last updated: 28 June 2006