Practicing Riding A Bike

This in-depth research programme set out to improve public understanding of how infrastructure is funded. This relates to Recommendation 56 of the New Zealand Infrastructure Strategy. Through the research we wanted to better understand:

  • how New Zealanders think about fairness in the context of infrastructure services
  • how well the current infrastructure system achieves outcomes that are perceived as fair
  • what could be done differently in the future to meet our infrastructure challenges in a way that New Zealanders can accept as being fair.

Funding and pricing are powerful tools for achieving our infrastructure goals, but they also have implications for how the costs of infrastructure are distributed, and what New Zealanders perceive as fair.

Latest on this work

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PUBLISHED 12 JUNE 2024
What’s fair when it comes to paying for infrastructure? Insights and findings

This report summarises the findings of our What’s fair? Providing and paying for infrastructure research programme. This in-depth research programme was conducted through a range of research methods. Including, a literature review, interviews, workshops and surveys.

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PUBLISHED 12 JUNE 2024
Understanding how infrastructure charges affect households

Meeting our infrastructure challenges will require different ways of charging and paying for infrastructure services. Ultimately the costs of providing infrastructure must be recovered somehow. We undertook this research to better understand how changing the way infrastructure services are charged affects households on different levels of income.

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PUBLISHED 2 FEBRUARY 2024
New Zealanders’ views on what’s fair when it comes to paying for infrastructure

We asked New Zealanders what they think is fair when it comes to paying for infrastructure services like roads, drinking water, and electricity. This is part of our research programme that is looking at what’s fair when it comes to providing and paying for infrastructure in New Zealand.

"Every aspect of infrastructure has an impact on fairness, from project selection through to design and planning, to how infrastructure is funded and financed, through to the price paid by consumers and the quality of the services they receive."