Strategic Directions - National Rail Strategy

Last updated on 23/06/2010 9:08 a.m. 

The New Zealand Rail Industry

 

Strategic Directions to 2015

Strategy Overview

Table shows Strategic Directions out to 2015
Objectives Priorities   Key Initiatives
NZTS: Assisting Economic Development National Rail Strategy: To enhance rail's contribution to sustainable economic development
  •  Upgrade the national rail network.
  • Improve rail's contribution to regional development.
  • Encourage more freight to be carried by rail.
  • Optimise use of rail network within the wider transport network.
- Governments purchase of rail network.
- Retain existing rail network.
- Government investment of $200 million to restore and upgrade network.
- Investigate development of the network.
- Operation of an efficient and safe ONTRACK.
- Contribute to integration between rail and other networks.
- Investigate options for better incorporating costs of transport modes into the pricing of the transport system.
NZTS: Assisting Safety and Personal Security National Rail Strategy: To improve rail safety and personal security
  •  Continue to improve the safety and personal security levels of the rail system.
- Enhanced rail safety regime (Railways Act 2005).
- Develop a rail safety strategy.
- Develop effective and efficient interventions to improve safety.
- Improve the safety and personal security of rail users.
NZTS: Improving Access and Mobility National Rail Strategy: To maintain and develop access to rail passenger services
  •  Encourage more use of urban rail passenger services as part of the public transport network.
- Funding assistance to develop urban rail passenger services and infrastructure.
- Investigate options for better incorporating the social costs and benefits of transport modes into the pricing of the transport system.
NZTS: Protecting and Promoting Public Health National Rail Strategy: To promote positive health outcomes through the enhanced use of rail
  •  Ensure the public health impacts of rail transport are incorporated into transport planning and decision-making.
- Encourage modal shift within a sustainable development context.
- Investigate options for better incorporating public health costs and benefits into pricing of the transport system.
- Investigate electrification of Auckland urban rail network.
NZTS: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability National Rail Strategy: To enhance rail's contribution to an energy efficient and environmentally sustainable land transport system 
  •  Ensure transport choices take into account the environmental benefits that rail can provide.
- Encourage modal shift from road to rail where appropriate.
- Investigate options for better incorporating environmental costs and benefits into the pricing of the transport system.
- Encourage better integration of services where practicable.

 

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