Work category 321: New traffic management facilities

Introduction

This work category A type of activity – not confined to a particular activity class, e.g. new roads (work category 323) appears in:

* activity class 12 – local road improvements
* activity class 13 – state highways improvements provides for new facilities and equipment that support the management and operation of the road network.

Examples of qualifying activities

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

• traffic signals
• Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS)
• Variable Message Signs (VMS)
• area-wide traffic control A linked system of traffic signals that allows regulation of traffic flow. systems
• Local Area Traffic Management Schemes (LATMS), 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)
• rail level crossing warning devices
• for local road projects, property purchase costs of  less than $50,000.

Other potential activities not shown above should be discussed with the Transport Agency for eligibility.

Exclusions

Upgrades to traffic management Activities/devices that facilitate management of the road network equipment and facilities conducted under work category A type of activity – not confined to a particular activity class, e.g. new roads (work category 323) appears in:

* activity class 12 – local road improvements
* activity class 13 – state highways improvements 222: Traffic services renewals to upgrade old standard equipment to the appropriate level of service.

Rail level crossing warning devices

The Transport Agency expects that the relevant rail track authority and the road controlling authority will share equally the costs of improving rail level crossing warning devices.

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 NLTF The fund established under section 10 of the LTMA .

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

Funding assistance rate (FAR The usual contribution in percentage terms, that the NZTA augments funding of an approved organisation, for the delivery of an activity or combination of activities. )

The usual funding assistance rate is:

• the Approved Organisation's normal FAR,
• the Approved Organisation's special purpose road improvements FAR; or
• 100% of the Transport Agency's state highway costs.

For stock effluent facilities improvements FARs, refer to the Transport Agency's stock effluent facilities policy.

Rail level crossing warning devices improvements will be funded at 100% for the 2015-18 National Land Transport Programme Interrelated and complementary combination of activities that, when delivered in a coordinated manner, produce synergies – can span more than one work category and more than one activity class, e.g. a programme could include a road improvement and public transport improvement activities. (NLTP A National Land Transport Programme Interrelated and complementary combination of activities that, when delivered in a coordinated manner, produce synergies – can span more than one work category and more than one activity class, e.g. a programme could include a road improvement and public transport improvement activities. adopted by the NZTA under section 19 of the LTMA, as from time to time amended or varied ) and then at a rate to be determined thereafter. Note that for Approved Organisations, all rail level crossing warning devices improvement funding should be applied for as a separate activity (regardless of cost) to allow the FAR The usual contribution in percentage terms, that the NZTA augments funding of an approved organisation, for the delivery of an activity or combination of activities. to be set to 100%, i.e. they are exception to the rule that activities costing less than $300k should included in the Minor Improvements programme.

Applying for funding approval

Applications for funding approval of proposed projects should be made through the 'Improvement activity' module in Transport Investment Online (TIO The NZTA's web-based funding allocation system. ). To be eligible for NLTF The fund established under section 10 of the LTMA funding, any new activity must be added to the relevant Regional Land Transport Plan and to the NLTP A National Land Transport Programme Interrelated and complementary combination of activities that, when delivered in a coordinated manner, produce synergies – can span more than one work category and more than one activity class, e.g. a programme could include a road improvement and public transport improvement activities. adopted by the NZTA under section 19 of the LTMA, as from time to time amended or varied .

End of year carryover

Transport Investment Online (TIO The NZTA's web-based funding allocation system. ) will automatically carryover the unspent allocation every year.  It is vital that Approved Organisations and the Transport Agency (state highways) declare as surplus any unused allocation for completed projects by making a cost scope adjustment via the Reviews module in TIO The NZTA's web-based funding allocation system. .