2. • Transport (road, rail, air and
sea ports)
• Telecommunications
• Energy
• Water (urban and productive)
• Social (education, health,
recreation, prisons)
Our national,
regional and
local
infrastructure
network
6. So you want to
provide
infrastructure in NZ?
• Tough layout (long and thin)
• Tough geography (mountains, waters)
• Tough geology (unstable and bubbly)
• Tough climate (but thanks for the energy)
• Tough market size (small economy and
population, badly distributed)
• Tough demand patterns (peak flows, and
short runs)
8. 8
3.8 million tonnes +
2.2 to 3.8 million tonnes
0.9 to 2.2 million tonnes
Less than 0.9 million
tonnes
9. So you want to
provide
infrastructure in NZ?
• Weak tradition of integration and
coordination
• (Some) weak providers
• (Some) weak investment analysis
• Generally weak understanding (or
interest in) demand
• Weak long term planning
11. A reasonable set of infrastructure networks
for our size and income:
Generally good resilience
Congestion level reasonable by most standards
Costs to users favourable in some areas
Generally good asset management practices
Generally good regulatory environment
Generally good reporting and accountability
12. • Strategic road linkages (congestion,
reliability, unlock potential and
address resilience)
• Rail maintenance and renewal
(reliability and timeliness)
• Ultra-fast broadband (lower cost,
increased access)
• Agricultural water use (increased
access)
Support
economic
growth,
and in
particular
exports
13. Puhoi to Wellsford
Auckland Western Ring Route
Auckland Victoria Park Bottleneck
Waikato Expressway
Tauranga Eastern Corridor
Wellington Northern Corridor
Christchurch Motorway Projects
14. Water management the area of biggest
concern
• Make better use of what we have
• Better planning, integration and
coordination
• Better investment analysis
Address the
system
weaknesses
The big ask: long(er) term certainty
15. Hon Steven Joyce, previous Minister ofTransport, NZ Rail
Conference, 21 April 2010
15
“Frankly everyone is going to have to hold hands
and jump together if this is to work”
16. • Step 1.1: Make most of what
we have
• Step 1.2: Implement
programmed improvements
• Step 1.2: Agree the
improvement plan
• Step 2: Fund the long-term
plan
Supporting
the growth
of
Auckland
18. • Step 1.1: Restoring basic
services
• Step 1.2: Make most of
what we have
• Step 2: New plans for a
changed city
Supporting
the
recovery of
Canterbury
19. • Step 1.1: Implement programmed
improvements
• Step 1.1:Think ahead: listen to the
users
• Step 2: Agree revised long-term plans
Supporting
the growth
of the Upper
North Island
23. • Step 1: Making better use of
what we have
• Step 2: Open up new high
productivity routes
Supporting
the general
freight task
24. • Step 1.1: Continue to unblock key bottlenecks
• Step 1.2 Get the regulations right
• Step 2: New focus: tackle resilience issues
• Step 3: Get the levels of service right
Supporting
the productive
rural areas
• Step 1: Implement programmed
improvements
• Step 2: Making better use of what we have
And support
Wellington’s
resilience
Plus: road safety, broadband and innovation
25. The adaptable road
The automated road
The climate change
resilient road
Towards 5th
generation
roads
26. Funding certainty is a big issue
• Transport & water: investment demand
larger than future funding sources
• In terminal decline? Fuel excise duty and
rates funding
• Too unreliable and complex?
Development contributions
27. Users Basic: paying for
use
Next step: users
meet marginal
cost
Investors
Basic: Private
capital repaid by
availability
charge
Next step:
Private capital
repaid by actual
use
Future
generations
Basic: spreading
some costs
across life of
asset
28. Golden rule Grade
Know your goals, and understand the
power
Improving
Maintain and optimise what you have,
before building new
Can do better,
promising
Build networks, not projects Must do better
Timing is everything Getting better
Its all about the use (and users), not the
engineering awards
Getting better
Build it right Good(ish)
Editor's Notes
Crown value of investment = $120bn
Crown investment 2011/12-2014/15 = $17bn
The performance and costs of the transport system, are all determined by a large number of independent actors – the government and its delivery agents, businesses, developers, individuals, transport network owners.
This is a picture some of our staff put together to remind ourselves that we as a transport regulator, planner, investor, and State highway service provider have several roles to play in the transport system. This picture focuses on freight – from the farm-gate to the shop and port.
I like this , because one of my jobs as Chief Executive of the NZTA is to ensure my staff have a clear understanding of what we are trying to achieve by playing our national role in the transport system, and to encourage them to strive to improve customer services.
Know your goals, and understand the power
Maintain and optimise what you have, before building new
Build networks, not projects
Timing is everything
Its all about the use (and users), not the engineering awards
Build it right, or regret it deeply
Know your goals, and understand the power
Maintain and optimise what you have, before building new
Build networks, not projects
Timing is everything
Its all about the use (and users), not the engineering awards
Build it right, or regret it deeply
This is the initial cut at the key routes for freight and tourism based on flows, we are developing these plans for release in December 2009
Mainly based on the highest flows
Freight
At least 1000 heavy vehicle movements per day in and out of key markets
Further development will pick up the work on increased heavy vehicle mass limits
Tourism
At least 5 million tourist flows per annum in the North Island
At least 3 million tourist flows per annum or a high proportion of tourist traffic (>60%) and 1 million tourist flows per annum in the South Island
Also 5 key destinations outside the major urban areas
Slide 8
The early, and therefore significant, value for money opportunity from a transport investment perspective is to get the land use and transport planning right in the first place.
We need get the right flows of people in our major urban employment areas, and freight to/from freight hubs and ports and markets
To get the right flows we need transport networks that are integrated with land use, and also transport networks that are well connected with each other
So we need to understand customers needs, the nature of their demand, and work together to get certainty for decision making, and the best results from private and public investments
And we need joined-up planning from a regional economic perspective – so spatial areas that make economic rather than water catchment boundary sense – and integrate economic development, land use, and transport planning.
Through our integrated planning we need to strike the right balance between movement and other uses of land in our town and city centres. This is the role of leadership, it’s not only a technical or data gathering exercise.
In practice this means:
Maximising high value space set aside for people and business in our town and city centres
Minimising the high costs of providing transport in our city centres (e.g. land footprint required, cost of maintaining and operating road space). Movement is for most of us (e.g. not all tourists) a derived demand
This slide contains two examples of the transport footprint in city centres – top right photo is the Manukau CBD – blue is surface area for parking, orange is roads. The bottom left photo is of the Lower Hutt CBD – 45% surface area required for transport (orange is road corridors at 19%, aqua is surface parking at 26%).
We do need to invest in new infrastructure assets – in a careful way, to unlock efficiencies within existing networks and to invest where the greatest economic growth and productivity impacts can be achieved. But we have to be careful. Adding additional roading infrastructure assets can be like loosening your belt to deal with weight gain. And because we don’t charge directly for road use (yet in our major city centres) – adding new roading capacity is like opening a pub with free beer. It soon fills up – and it’s hard to identify and cater for high value drinkers, so to speak.
As specified in the GPS by the Minister of Transport
• Puhoi to Wellsford – State highway 1
• Completion of the Auckland Western Ring Route – State highway 20/16/18
• Auckland Victoria Park bottleneck – State highway 1
• Waikato Expressway – State highway 1
• Tauranga Eastern Corridor – State highway 2
• Wellington Northern Corridor (Levin to Wellington) – State highway 1
• Christchurch motorway projects.
We have a number of different technology based tools to deliver traveller information. This is an area where we are growing our capability and service offerings and will continue to do so into the future.
Our website contains up-to-date travel information on State highways such as road closures, significant delays and general safety warnings and we provide customers with a number of webcams that they can access to find out what the current driving conditions are like.
CLICK ONTO THE RAMP METERING PHOTO – THIS WILL TAKE YOU TO THE INTERNET, THEN OPEN INTERNET TO FULL SCREEN WITH THE MOUSE
Because Auckland is a major priority, we provide real-time congestion information for the network in that area. This slide shows the status of the network – and customers have the ability to click through and see what the traffic looks like through the cameras and they can check current travel times between key on/off ramps.
We are currently working to establish a new service that will enable road user's to tailor road information that’s appropriate to them and their travel directly from the NZTA website and nomadic devices. More on this to come in the future.
In addition to this we have a free phone service that road users can call to find out if there are road closures or major delays that may affect their travel plans. The service also allows road users to report something they may have noticed on their travels that they think the NZTA should know about. And we have agreements with the key radio network providers for providing real-time traffic updates during morning and afternoon peak travel periods and during major incidents.
Know your goals, and understand the power
Maintain and optimise what you have, before building new
Build networks, not projects
Timing is everything
Its all about the use (and users), not the engineering awards
Build it right, or regret it deeply
