Review completeness and eligibility of activities in transport programmes prior to input to RLTP - overview

Introduction

This section overviews the Regional Transport Committee’s role to review the completeness and eligibility of activities in Approved Organisations’ and the NZTA’s (state highway) transport programmes and to decide whether to accept these.

Overview

The Regional Transport Committee (RTC) is responsible for developing a Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) under the Land Transport Management Act (LTMA).  Approved Organisations and the NZTA (state highways) are required to assess each activity or combination of activities they propose for inclusion in the RLTP. The assessment must be in the form and contain the detail required for the RLTP by the RTC, taking into account any prescribed requirements of the NZTA.

The RLTP must be in the form and contain the detail that the NZTA prescribes to RTCs in writing.

The checklist in this Knowledge Base sets out the NZTA’s completeness requirements for activities to be considered by an RTC for inclusion in an RLTP.  The RTC also needs to check the eligibility of activities for funding assistance from the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF) against activity class and work category criteria.

The RTC should not accept proposals to include activities or combinations of activities in the RLTP that do not meet these requirements. It should provide feedback to the Approved Organisation or the NZTA (state highways) as to why the activity is not being accepted and provide an opportunity for the activity to be updated to enable it to be included in the RLTP.