Auckland Central Access Plan Auckland Transport 22 March 2016 VERSION V6 Programme Business Case Contents Executive summary ............................................................................................................ 3 Recommendations .......................................................................................................... 3 The Problems ................................................................................................................ 4 Benefits ......................................................................................................................... 8 Implementation.............................................................................................................. 8 Options unlikely to be worth pursuing immediately ...................................................... 10 Stakeholders ............................................................................................................... 10 PART 1 – THE STRATEGIC CASE .................................................................................... 11 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 11 1.1 Purpose .............................................................................................................. 11 2 The Strategic Context ............................................................................................... 12 2.1 The Problems ..................................................................................................... 12 2.1.1 The Auckland Transport context ...................................................................... 13 3 Organisational Context ............................................................................................. 15 3.1 Organisational Overview ................................................................................... 15 4 Organisational Outcomes, Impacts and Objectives ............................................... 17 4.1 The Transport Agency ....................................................................................... 17 4.2 Council ............................................................................................................... 17 4.3 AT ....................................................................................................................... 17 5 Status of the Evidence Base .................................................................................... 18 5.1 The Evidence for the Strategic Case ................................................................ 18 5.2 The Bus Reference Case ................................................................................... 18 5.3 The Stage Timing Model ................................................................................... 18 5.4 Development areas for the evidence base ....................................................... 18 6 Changes/updates since the Strategic Case was undertaken ................................. 19 7 Confirming the need for investment ........................................................................ 20 7.1 Defining the problem/opportunity .................................................................... 20 7.1.1 Evidence for the problem statements at CAS stage ......................................... 20 7.2 Re-confirming the Problem ............................................................................... 23 7.3 The Benefits of Investment ............................................................................... 26 8 Stakeholder Agreement ............................................................................................ 27 PART 2 –DEVELOPING THE PROGRAMME .................................................................... 28 9 Programme Context .................................................................................................. 28 9.1 Geographical and Environmental Context ....................................................... 28 9.2 Social Context ................................................................................................... 28 9.3 Economic Context ............................................................................................. 29 10 Stakeholder Engagement ......................................................................................... 32 10.1 RLTP Consultation ............................................................................................ 32 CAP PBC March 2016 1 of 97 10.2 Professional Engagement Process .................................................................. 33 11 Alternatives and Options Assessment. ................................................................... 34 11.1 Preliminary interventions considered .............................................................. 34 11.2 The Do Minimum ................................................................................................ 34 11.3 Programme options assessed .......................................................................... 35 11.4 Programme options grouped by Principle ....................................................... 36 11.5 Interventions not considered further ............................................................... 38 11.6 Option Evaluation .............................................................................................. 39 11.6.1 Overall evaluation ........................................................................................ 39 11.6.2 Amenity evaluation ...................................................................................... 43 11.6.3 Road Safety ................................................................................................. 43 11.6.4 Workshop conclusions ................................................................................. 43 12 The Integrated Programme (IP) ................................................................................ 45 12.1 Programme Overview ........................................................................................ 45 12.2 IP discussion ..................................................................................................... 46 12.3 Programme Timing ............................................................................................ 49 12.4 Programme Benefits ......................................................................................... 52 12.5 Programme Risk ................................................................................................ 54 12.6 Value for Money ................................................................................................. 54 12.7 Assessment Profile ........................................................................................... 57 12.8 Programme cost ................................................................................................ 57 12.9 Funding and procurement arrangements ........................................................ 58 12.10 Affordability ................................................................................................... 58 12.11 Programme Governance and Reporting ...................................................... 58 12.12 Peer Review ................................................................................................... 58 Appendix A Investment Logic Map ............................................................................... 60 Appendix B Benefits Map .............................................................................................. 61 Appendix C Strategic Alternatives and IP supporting information ............................. 62 C.1 Detailed programme options descriptions and assessments as used for 22 February Workshop ...................................................................................................................... 65 Appendix D Amenity Evaluation .................................................................................... 78 D.1 CAP Programme Options - Background and methodology for Urban Amenity78 D.2 Amenity Evaluation ........................................................................................... 83 D.3 Assessment Notes ............................................................................................ 86 D.4 IP Amenity Assessment .................................................................................... 87 Appendix E STM Analysis ............................................................................................. 88 E.1 Base Case .......................................................................................................... 89 E.2 With the IP .......................................................................................................... 92 CAP PBC March 2016 2 of 97 Auckland Central Access Programme Business Case Executive summary Recommendations a) That this Auckland Central Access Programme Business Case (PBC) be supported with a preferred programme described as the Integrated Programme (IP), comprising: 1. Optimisation of the current plans for the New Network1 of central Auckland public transport services including maximum introduction of higher capacity buses and reallocation of bus services to make better use of available capacity 2. Taking all possible measures to improve the efficiency of the bus network – for example off-board ticket checking and further commitment to bus priority measures 3. Commitment to