Post Opening Project Evaluation (POPE) of major schemes
National Highways undertakes reviews on major road schemes to measure impact against forecast.
Our POPEs provide an opportunity to determine how effective we are in delivering improvements against our portfolio of major projects in the road investment programme. We compare the impact in key areas, including journey reliability, safety and on the environment.
The evaluation provides an early mechanism to ensure the project is on track to deliver the anticipated benefits over the lifecycle of a project, which is typically 60 years after opening. We assess impacts by observing trends on the route before the project was constructed (baseline), and evaluating these after the improvements have been completed and the route is fully operational to traffic.
We also assess the impacts of the project against the expected impacts presented in the forecasts made during the project planning process.
For more details of the evaluation methods, please refer to the POPE methodology manual.
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Older POPE reports can be found on the Highways England pages of the gov.uk website.
POPE reports
M25 Junction 30 A13 Corridor Enhancement Five Year Post Opening project evaluation (POPE) report
A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon - 1-year post-opening project evaluation (POPE) report
A160/A180 Port of Immingham improvement - 1-year post-opening project evaluation (POPE) report
A1 Coal House to Metrocentre - 5-year post-opening project evaluation (POPE) report
M1 junction 45 - 1-year post-opening project evaluation (POPE) report
A43 Abthorpe roundabout improvements - 1-year post-opening project evaluation (POPE) report
A45/A46 Tollbar End improvement - 1-year post-opening project evaluation (POPE) report
A23 Handcross to Warninglid - 5-year post-opening project evaluation (POPE) report
A11 Fiveways to Thetford dualling - 5-year post-opening project evaluation
A30 Temple to Higher Carblake Dualling - 1-year-after report
A556 Knutsford to Bowdon improvement - 1-year-after report
A1 Dishforth to Leeming seven-year after and A1 Leeming to Barton one-year after report
A1 Coal House to Metro Centre - 1-year-after report
A5-M1 Dunstable Northern Bypass - 1-year-after-report
A21 Tonbridge to Pembury dualling - 1-year-after report
M1 junctions 10 to 13 hard shoulder running and junction improvements - 5-year-after report
M3 junctions 2 to 4a all lane running - 1-year-after report
M25 junction 30/A13 corridor congestion relieving project - 1-year post-opening project evaluation
