“Wellington Transport Alliance: Collaboration & Asset Management” is a finalist in the Leaderships Award category at the 2024 Āpōpō Awards.
The Wellington Transport Alliance (WTA) is an industry-leading eleven-year alliance between NZTA, WSP New Zealand and Fulton Hogan, operating and maintaining the state highway network assets in the Greater Wellington Region. As the leading Maintenance and Operations project in New Zealand, WTA successfully connects the Wellington region so the network’s users can get where they’re going safely and reliably.
All involved: WSP, New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, and Fulton Hogan
The Wellington Transport Alliance (WTA) is the leading Maintenance and Operations project in New Zealand, responsible for the state highway network and assets in the Greater Wellington region. WTA connect the Wellington region so you can get where you’re going safely and reliably.
The WTA is an eleven-year alliance between the New Zealand Transport Agency, WSP New Zealand and Fulton Hogan to operate and maintain the state highway network assets in the Greater Wellington Region. WTA also manages the stock of structural assets, such as bridges, tunnels and gantries in Marlborough, Nelson and Tasman.
This video provides a good insight into one of the many regular projects within WTA’s operations and maintenance portfolio. Here we see a behind the scenes view the showering, scrubbing, testing and tidying that happens after dark to keep Wellington’s tunnels in top condition. FAQs on WTA. WTA video archive:
The Wellington Transport Alliance (WTA) initiative brings real leadership in a collaborative approach to Asset Management. The first such Maintenance and Operations Alliance model outside Auckland, it has seen significant improvements in customer focus and network operational efficiencies. In creating the WTA, NZTA displayed clear leadership by developing the Maintenance and Operations Alliance model and applying it to the complex and political Wellington environment. Aspects of WTA are being replicated into NZTA new national Integrated Delivery Model (IDM).
This Alliance model is a significant change to the traditional approach to work delivery in the Wellington Network. It has created a sense of joint ownership, with emphasis placed on working together to embrace opportunities and resolve issues.
WTA has continually challenged itself to improve performance and deliver more for less, for both the client and associated stakeholders. WTA takes a leadership role through governance, physical works delivery, ITS, customer focus and traffic operations.
In a spirit of leadership, WTA has engaged the Āpōpō Digital Badges learning and development programme. This allows us to grow WTA’s asset management talent, capability and capacity.
The demands on the alliance are many and varied, from the physical impacts of storm and flood damage, through to the, often contradictory, demands of stakeholders. Although challenging, the Alliance’s shared vision and the professional experience of our team, mean that WTA has excelled in providing the services required by the greater Wellington region. NZTA’s mandated focus on road-user safety has been enhanced under WTA, with the addition of strategic oversight, innovation and leadership to challenge common practice.
WTA have been a leader in governance with the establishment and development of the WTA Alliance Board and Alliance Leadership Team. These two levels of governance and leadership have guided WTA to achieve the Alliance objectives and grow the culture.
The Leadership Award is proudly sponsored by Waugh Infrastructure Management
Iqbal manages a strong Assets Management team who collaborate well will the wider alliance.
They deserve recognition.
Bringing together Alliance partners is never easy in the first few years of an Alliance.