Helen Stone,
Principal Data Scientist
- Our digital services
- Digital lab
- Data
- Immersion
- Insight
Data Lab
Data drives
We’re opening up our data for all, through five new data services.
These data services are available as application processing interfaces (APIs), and share data on road and lane closures, digital variable message signs, road limits and features, diversion routes and speed managed areas. Whether you’re a developer, engineer or an innovator seeking to shape the future of digital navigation, our APIs are designed to seamlessly integrate with your products.
Our data services
The developer portal allows software developers to use our free APIs for their own services.
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Data Partner Forum
Online
13 March 2025
Our second Data Partner Forum brought together 60+ participants, including 41 partners representing 24 different organisations. The forum gave us the opportunity to re-introduce Digital Lab, provide a deep-dive on each of the data services that are currently live, talk through the planned updates in our future roadmap, and host a Q&A session. We had an engaging partner panel and finished the forum by considering how we can use data to design more inclusive experiences for all drivers on our network, by sharing some of the outputs from the Accessible Highways events in 2024. Please watch the forum video to learn more.
Get access to our data labs
This is the place where technology meets collaboration and where developers from all walks of life come together to explore, share ideas and learn.
Powered by National Highways
Data Lab is delivered by existing teams in National Highways.
The purpose of the labs is to share valuable National Highways data, provide insights, create experiences, build connections, stimulate innovation and encourage collaboration across the mobility ecosystem.
Data Science
The Data Science team create insight and generate value from data through data science/products raise the profile of the Digital Lab, speed up delivery and increase ROI on data science products, mandate to operate, open up our data and expertise as a platform for innovation across the connected services ecosystem and research partners and continuously upskill and develop an innovation pipeline.
Our capabilities include: Create data science products from initial pipeline to delivery and training, mandate to operate via regulatory and ethics compliance, audit ready and Centre of Excellence, and open up our platform and data via insights and innovation labs, thought leadership and brand leadership
Data Architecture and Engineering
Data Architecture and Engineering provide the platforms, practices, and developer experience that is needed internally and across our supply chain to bring our data products to market. Our strengths are in platform design and data modelling. Keeping those models consistent across the business helps maintain institutional knowledge and keeps our data products consistent.
Adam Locker
Head of Data Architecture and Engineering
Geospatial
Within Digital Lab Geospatial, our vision is that everything with a location, has an accurate location reference. We make sure there is a single, authoritative network model, consistent across all business systems. .
Our capabilities include: developing new spatial capabilities or enhancing existing ones, data onboarding, Training and access, to make sure that what we do have, users know the where and they know the how.
Thomas Coleman,
Principal Geospatial Manager
Data Governance & Assurance
Our Data Governance and Assurance capability has designed and delivered a range of foundational artefacts and capabilities to improve our ability to manage data and information as a critical business asset.
We've built strong data governance foundations, and our focus now is to translate these foundations into a data operating model that can sit at the heart of our business-operating model, bringing data governance to life, driving data improvement, and providing data and information that is high performing, trusted and translates value opportunity into tangible economic, social and environmental benefit.
Zoe Tallantire
Head of Data Governance & Assurance
