WC 321: New traffic management facilities

This page relates to the 2021-24 National Land Transport Programme.

Introduction

Work category 321 provides for new facilities and equipment that support the safe management and operation of the road network.

Qualifying activities

Work category 321 is available to the following activity classes:

• Road to Zero
• local road improvements
• state highway improvements.

Road to Zero

Local road and state highway improvements

Examples of qualifying activities

Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to new and improved:

• traffic signals
• advanced traffic management systems
• variable message signs
• area-wide traffic control systems
• local area traffic management schemes, including speed control devices and threshold treatments
• ramp metering
• surveillance devices
• traffic monitoring equipment, such as closed-circuit television systems
• weighing facilities owned by a road controlling authority and/or operated as a weight surveillance facility
• stock-truck effluent disposal facilities (refer to stock effluent facilities policy)
  Stock effluent facilities

• rail level crossing warning devices
• for local road projects, property purchase costs of less than $500,000.

You can discuss with us (Waka Kotahi Transport Agency as investor) whether other potential activities not listed above might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category.

Exclusions

The work category excludes:

• upgrades to traffic management equipment and facilities conducted under work category 222.

Work category 222: Traffic services renewals

Rail level crossing warning devices

We expect the relevant rail track authority and the road controlling authority will share equally the costs of improving rail level crossing warning devices.

Rail crossings

Where, under a deed of grant by the relevant rail track authority, the road controlling authority is required to pay the full cost of upgrade, this cost is accepted for funding assistance from the National Land Transport Fund.

An invoice from the relevant rail track authority must back up claims for funding assistance.

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate (FAR) is:

• the approved organisation's normal FAR
  Normal funding assistance rates

or

• the approved organisation's special purpose road FAR
  Other funding assistance rates

or

• 100% of the Waka Kotahi state highway costs.

For stock effluent facilities improvements FARs, refer to the Waka Kotahi stock effluent facilities policy.

Stock effluent facilities

Rail level crossing warning devices improvements are funded as follows  in the 2021–24 National Land Transport Programme (NLTP):

• Level crossing improvements will get the approved organisation's normal FAR for its share of the cost (which will depend on the deed of grant by the relevant rail track authority). Note that most (or all) level crossing activities are expected to cost less than $2 million, and can be added to the approved organisation's low-cost, low-risk programme.

Work category 341: Low-cost, low-risk improvements

Submitting activities for NLTP consideration and funding approval

Approved organisations and Waka Kotahi (for its own activities) submit these activities using the improvement activity module in Transport Investment Online (TIO).

Transport Investment Online(external link)

User guides for TIO are available in TIO.

End-of-year carryover

TIO will automatically carry over the unspent allocation every year. It is vital that approved organisations and Waka Kotahi (for its own activities) declare as surplus any unused allocation for completed projects by making a cost scope adjustment via the reviews module in TIO.