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The prioritisation principles
Seriousness
Seriousness considers the scale and importance of the transport
problem to which the activity, projects or package responds as
assessed against the key challenges identified in the Table 1 below
(developed through the Auckland Transport Plan).
The first step towards assessing the Seriousness rating of a project
is to identify the main issues each project is aimed at addressing
and assess these issues against the challenges identified in Table 1.
A High, Medium or Low (H, M, L) rating is then allocated to each of
the challenges in Table 1 for the project being assessed.
All activities start with a default Low rating against each challenge
listed in Table 1 below.
> A High rating for any challenge can be obtained if the project
matches the principles listed below for that challenge.
> If the project is part way towards any of the challenges listed
below then a Medium rating is used for that challenge.
The second step is then to allocate an overall rating for the
Seriousness factor.
> An overall High rating for the Seriousness factor only requires a
High against one challenge.
> A Medium rating requires one Medium.
Table 1: Seriousness
Seriousness: The scale and importance of the transport problem to which the project/activity or package responds.
Strategic Focus Area
Note: Further information
on the five Strategic
Focus Areas can be found
in Chapter 4
Challenges
Prioritisation principles
SFA 1, 2, 4
Encouraging and
facilitating economic
development
>
Priority to projects which support increased economic productivity, including
intensification of employment, economic clusters, and effective heavy goods
vehicle access.
>
Improving accessibility to areas of intensified economic activity, including visitor
concentrations.
>
Priority to projects which support regionally agreed areas of new business activity.
>
Priority will be given to those parts of the strategic and arterial network where limited
alternative routes exist for accommodating growth.
>
Transport requirements to facilitate urban growth strategies, including lead
infrastructure and services.
SFA 1, 2, 3
Minimising the impact
of congestion and
unreliable travel times
>
Highest priority will be given to addressing congestion which impacts on freight and
commercial traffic movements, and all-day congestion that constrains business and
community development.
>
Priority will be given to reducing congestion that impacts on the safe and efficient
operation of strategic corridors and the needs of inter-regional travel will receive a
high priority.
>
Congestion that impacts travel to and from vital economic growth centres and
markets will receive a high priority.
>
Priority will be given to reducing congestion which impacts on passenger transport
and improving passenger transport travel times.
>
Other solutions to commuter peak travel congestion will be accorded a high priority
where a viable sustainable transport alternative, or only a partial solution, is unavailable.
SFA 1, 2, 3, 4
Optimising use of
the existing
transport system
>
Priority will be given to strategies aimed at Travel Demand Management, traffic
management, traffic light optimisation and road access control.
SFA 4
Ensuring integrated
land use and transport
provision to enhance
regional growth
>
The Regional Growth Strategy (RGS) growth concept, will be a key determinant in
deciding priorities for investment in transport, with particular emphasis on:
> Encouraging higher-density development and employment in growth nodes
and corridors.
>
Investment in alternative and active modes to support higher-density development
in towns and sub-regional centres.
>
Ensuring that land use patterns are consistent with the RPS and RGS.
>
An integrated transport system.
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Priority will be given to projects that help to achieve a better balance between
employment, education and residential locations, and to projects that reduce the need
to travel.