On behalf of the Government, the Transport Agency has delivered strongly for New Zealand’s transport system and the people and businesses that rely on it over the past year.
We remain focused on our purpose of creating transport solutions for a thriving New Zealand and have made excellent progress on our strategic direction.
In terms of our four long-term goals, we were on track with most of our success indicators and we are maintaining our focus on delivering great work in these areas.
Our shorter-term priority focus areas help us achieve faster momentum towards our goals. In the past year we made excellent progress and were ahead of schedule for our freight, customer and road maintenance priorities – which have seen some substantial improvements made to the transport system. These are not only improvements for the past year, but will continue to see benefits in the years to come. In particular, the significant improvement in the ability to get more freight on fewer trucks and the $280 million of cost savings in road network renewals, maintenance and operations.
In 2015, we concluded that while a lot had been achieved in terms of our shorter-term priorities there was still room to achieve more and we have sharpened our focus across all our strategic priorities for the next four years.
We also have a new priority for urban cycling. The Government established the Urban Cycleways Fund with $100m of resources available for investment for the next three years and our new priority will enable us to deliver this programme.
A detailed account of our financial and operational activities and investments for the year ended 30 June 2015 can be found in our two annual reports that the Minister of Transport presented to the House of Representatives in November: the NZ Transport Agency Annual Report and the National Land Transport Fund Annual Report.
You can download an overview of our 2014/15 highlights or a full version of both our annual reports. Full versions of both reports are available on our Transport Agency website.