This page relates to the 2021-24 National Land Transport Programme.
Work category 357 provides for non-routine work to increase the resilience of the existing road network (including roads, road structures and eligible walking and cycling facilities). This work category also provides for non-routine work to minimise the threat of road closure from natural phenomena.
Work category 357 is available to the following activity classes:
Local road and state highway improvements
Examples of qualifying activities include:
You can discuss with us (Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency as investor) whether other potential activities not in the above list might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category.
Work category 357 excludes:
The approved organisation and Waka Kotahi (for its own activities) must identify individual resilience improvement activities and justify them economically. They must be the long-term, least-cost option calculated in present value terms.
The cost of proposed works must be assessed against Waka Kotahi policy on uneconomic transport infrastructure.
Uneconomic transport infrastructure
A risk assessment for each proposed activity must be undertaken, using the risk assessment table below.
Protection planting is an example of an activity that may be eligible for assistance under work category 357. The following components of protection planting are eligible for funding assistance under this work category:
Approval of funding assistance for protection planting is conditional on legally enforceable agreements that define the responsibilities for the management of retired areas outside the road reserve and ensure there is no duplication of funding assistance from us or other sources.
The usual funding assistance rate (FAR) is:
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Submitting activities for National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) consideration and funding approval
Approved organisations and Waka Kotahi (for its own activities) submit these activities using the improvements activity module in Transport Investment Online (TIO). The risk assessment should be included in the transport problem / opportunity field of the improvements activity module in TIO.
Transport Investment Online(external link)
User guides for TIO are available in TIO.
Projects of less than $2 million should be added to a low-cost, low-risk programme. Projects over $2 million must be added to a regional land transport plan for inclusion in the NLTP.
TIO will automatically carry over the unspent allocation every year (excluding minor improvements). Therefore, approved organisations and Waka Kotahi (for its own activities) must declare as surplus the unused allocation for completed projects by making a cost-scope adjustment via the reviews module in TIO.
| Descriptor | Consequence | Insignificant | Minor | Moderate | Major |
Critical |
| Probability | Description | Minor delays during clean-up and/or insignificant risk to users | Reduced capacity and/or low risk to users | Reduced to half the capacity for more than 24 hours and/or unacceptable risk to users | Route closed for more than 24 hours and/or major risk to users | Route severed and/or extreme risk to users |
| Almost certain | Expected to occur in most circumstances | High | High | Extreme | Extreme | Extreme |
| Likely | Will probably occur in most circumstances | Low | High | High | Extreme | Extreme |
| Possible | Might occur at sometime | Negligible | Low | High | Extreme | Extreme |
| Unlikely | Could occur at sometime | Negligible | Negligible | Low | High | Extreme |
For eligible activities, an investment priority profile is required in addition to the risk assessment. This should use the Waka Kotahi Investment Prioritisation Method.
2021-24 NLTP Investment Prioritisation Method
The above risk assessment does not determine the results alignment for resilience improvements activities. The road improvements results alignment profiling should be used to determine the results alignment.
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