Public funding provides for nearly all land transport services and infrastructure in New Zealand – and we’re accountable to New Zealanders for how we invest in that funding. This means closely monitoring costs and showing that services and infrastructure we’ve invested in fulfil their intended purpose and deliver their expected outcomes and benefits.
This section of the Planning &Investment Knowledge Base provides information about the different activities of Transport Agency's investment monitoring framework.
Each Approved Organisation and Transport Agency(state highways) must provide an annual achievement report to the Transport Agency.
Transport Agency is accountable for its investment decisions. The information provided in the achievement reports provides feedback on the delivery of the programmes that Transport Agency has purchased. The achievement reports are also used for benchmarking and comparing network performance across New Zealand. Reports are developed by Transport Agency using the information provided, and are made available to Approved Organisations and Transport Agency(state highways) for their use.
The report must be submitted to the Transport Agency via Transport Investment Online (external link) by mid-July. The precise date is defined each year in a General Circular issued by Transport Agency.
The investment assurance framework focuses on providing assurance about the services and infrastructure Transport Agency invests in. It also seeks to systematically identify opportunities to improve both Transport Agency's and the transport sector’s performance.
The framework covers two main audit and monitoring activities:
The table below summarises the focus and scope of these different monitoring activities, the assurance they seek to provide, and business improvement opportunities they aim to identify.
Investment audits |
Investment performance measurement |
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Focus: |
Approved Organisations and Transport Agency(state highways) |
Completed projects or packages that Transport Agency has providing funding for |
What is assessed ? |
Approved Organisations and Transport Agency(state highways) capability |
Whether expected benefits of projects/packages been achieved for expected cost, explanation of variation of actual results from expected |
Assurance Provided |
Approved Organisations and Transport Agency(state highway) have systems, processes, and people in place to manage their investment risk and deliver sought outcomes |
Projects/packages invested in are achieving what was intended and for expected cost |
Business improvement opportunities it helps identify |
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The links to each of the monitoring activity types (see above the table) provides further details on how these activities are carried out and further links to the following topics: