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Fwd: MartinJenkins slides
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Presentation to WCC 19 April pdf.pdf
ATT00001.htm
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WELLINGTON 
REGIONAL 
TRANSPORT

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Business Case
Presentation to 
Wellington
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City Council
19 April 2018 RELEASED 
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WELLINGTON TRANSPORT BUSINESS 
CASE

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Develop an indicative business case:

Evaluate local government transport model options

Will inform public and targeted engagement

Will not identify a single preferred way forward
Undertaken by:
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MartinJenkins
Local government structuring and planning, business case developing, 
financing arrangements
Cranleigh
Local government finance, balance sheet analysis and restructuring
TDG
Transport strategy, policy and funding, transport planning, public transport
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Key dates:
Scoping report: 
4 April
Draft business case:
20 May
Final business case: 
8 July
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TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
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To set out some early thoughts for reaction on:
• The wider context in which transports sits (‘strategic context’)
• The problems affecting transport governance, planning and service 
delivery in the region (‘problem definition’)
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• What we would want to achieve by any change (‘investment objectives’)
To provide a heads up on the issues we will be exploring
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STRATEGIC CONTEXT
- what are we trying to achieve with transport?
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- what else is going on?
Government Policy Statement on Land Transport
Strategic direction

Economic growth and productivity

Road safety

Value for money
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Increasing compliance required to secure funding
Wellington Regional Strategy

Building a world-class infrastructure to support a diverse resilient economy: build resilience, 
improve connections
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Regional Land Transport Plan

Economic growth, safety, resilience, liveability
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Better local services reforms
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IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS – initial thoughts

are there others?

what are the implications in practice?
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what is behind them?
Regional objectives to which transport contributes may not be sufficiently 
clear
Poor alignment of local transport planning decisions with regional transport 
objectives
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Lack of integration between local road and state highway planning decisions
Lack of integration of roading and public transport planning decisions
High transaction costs and long timeframes in decision making
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Issues with capability and its alignment with needs
Fragmentation can lead to diseconomies of scale
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ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS? THE  ACT 
Do we also have concerns re:
• sustainability?
• affordability and equity of funding arrangements?
• cost efficiency?
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DRAFT INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES

What do we want to achieve through any change?

What’s their relative importance?
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Can we be more specific?
Generic heading
Objectives
Strategic context
Clear outcomes for regional and local transport
Effectiveness
Transport supports regional and local objectives
Roading and public transport developments deliver improved user outcomes
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Efficiency
Reduced transaction costs in decision making
Improved cost effectiveness of service delivery
Financing
Equitable and sustainable funding arrangements
Funding arrangements are aligned with decision making
Alignment
Compliance with planning and funding requirements
Roading and public transport decisions are aligned
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Effective multi-modal approaches
Local road and state highway decisions are aligned
Meet expected transport user service levels
Risk and resilience
Transport infrastructure and services are resilient
Region has the human capital and technical capacity to manage transport
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Community voice
Appropriate governance to ensure the community continues to have a voice
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