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An Introduction to the Lean Visual Management Construction Foreword Highways England has three imperatives : Safety - our aim is that no one should be harmed when travelling or working on the strategic road network. We care about each other, our suppliers, our customers and communities. Customer Service – improving how what we do impacts those that use the roads. Delivering the Road Investment Strategy – on time and efficiently. Lean principles provide a foundation to help enable all of these pr…

National Highways Carbon Tool Guidance Date: April 2024 Version: 2.6 Confidential National Highways Terms and Definitions Department for Transport document setting out a Road Investment Strategy long term approach to improve England’s (RIS) motorway and all-purpose trunk road network (the ‘strategic road network’). A standard unit for measuring carbon footprints. This expresses the impact of each different greenhouse gas in terms of the amount of Carbon dioxide equivalent carbon dioxide that would create the same emissions (CO2e) amount of global warming. Hereafter the term carbon used in this…

Vision for route strategies Planning for the future of our roads highwaysengland.co.uk 2 Introduction Our aspiration for our next round of route strategies is to build upon the work we have done previously, to set out: The roads managed by Highways England play A planned set of future requirements for the a critical role in enabling businesses to transport products and services, providing access to network that is responsive to environmental jobs and suppliers, and facilitating trade and needs; …

Digital, Data and Technology Strategy 2023-2025 Digital Services: Enabling journeys through technology and data 1 The 2023-25 version of the Digital, Our original strategy was centred on Data and Technology Strategy updates three core themes: our original document - published in 2020. A lot has changed over the past 1. Transforming our services. few years, and in such a fast-paced Transforming services across asset environment, it’s right that we review management, customer-focused and our plans…

Economic Role of National Highways Role 2: Strategic Connectivity Contents 1. Introduction . 2 2. Connectivity and the SRN . 3 3. The role of National Highways supporting strategic connectivity . 10 1 1. Introduction The Strategic Road Network (‘SRN’) plays a vital role in connecting the country through providing strategic links between the regions and nations of the UK. Forming a core element of a wider, integrated transport system, the SRN joins with rail, inland water and coastal shipping net…

Smart motorways stocktake Second year progress report 2022 Second year progress report B Second year progress report Contents Foreword 2 Executive summary 4 Going further – 2021 Transport Select Committee report 12 Giving clarity to drivers 16 Finding a safe place to stop 22 Being safer in moving traffic 27 Updated safety evidence 39 Conclusion and next steps 56 Annex A – Smart motorways map (correct as of March 2022) 58 Annex B – Methodology 59 Annex C – Length and traffic data 2015-2020 78 Annex D – SRN collision and casualty statistics 2015-2020 79 [Adjusted for injury-based reporting] Anne…

Protest on the Strategic Road Network M25 Junction 31 20 July 2022 Impact Assessment Statement (Assured) Data sources, impact methodology, assumptions & examples © 2021 National Highways 103 Data sources Impact Assessment Statement To calculate impact the National Operations team will use a variety of data sources to collate and validate the data presented in this pack National Traffic Information Service (NTIS) – Real time NTIS collects data from induction loops that are situated under the roads surface. The loops are able to count vehicles, measure speed and measure vehicle length. NTIS also…

Your property and compensation or mitigation for the effects of our road proposals 6 Content National Highways 4 Introduction 5 Compensation and mitigation for the adverse effects of our road proposals on your property 6 1. Environmental mitigation 9 2. Off-site planting agreements 10 3. Noise insulation 12 4. Noise payments for movable homes 20 5. R easonable additional expenses to move into temporary 22 suitable alternative residential accommodation 6. Section 10 claims 26 7. Off-line discreti…

National Highways Operational Metrics Manual February 2025 Contents Contents . 2 1. Introduction . 4 Introduction to the Operational metrics manual . 4 Background . 4 Description of the Operational metrics manual . 5 Intended audience for the Operational metrics manual . 5 2. Governance and assurance of KPI and PI metrics . 5 Governance and sign-off of metrics . 5 Change control . 6 Reporting arrangements . 7 The assurance plan for metrics . 7 3. Performance monitoring and reporting overview . 7 The Performance Specification . 7 The Key Performance Indicators and Performance Indicators for Roa…

Strategic business plan 2020-2025 We are Highways England People rely on our roads to connect people and drive the economy Since 2015 Since 2015, we have helped customers make safer and more reliable journeys on Carrying 3x more We have reduced the number our roads. Our 4,300 miles of motorways people than the UK rail network of casualties on our roads by and major A-roads help people travel from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Penzance, and from Carlisle to Dover. Everything we do, from designing our roads to clearing incidents, billion 18% and helps keep traffic moving 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.…