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Developing a new noise calculation method Task 3: Draft Standard National Highways Project Reference: T0478 10 June 2024 Developing a new noise calculation method ProjectReference: T0478 Quality information Prepared by Checked by Verified by Approved by Matt Muirhead PhD Suzanne Scott MIOA, Suzanne Scott MIOA, Chris Skinner MSci MIOA CSci CSci MIOA Associate Director Associate Acoustician Associate Acoustician Regional Director - Fiona Rogerson Acoustics Senior Consultant Revision History Revisi…

The A66 is a key local, regional and national route for east/west journeys in the north of England providing vital connections for freight, tourism and businesses across the UK. In this section The route  The A66 plays an essential role for journeys across the north of England and provides the most direct route between the central belt of Scotland and the eastern side of England. The route connects cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh with Leeds, Sheffield and Norwich.  It’s a critical route fo…

Learning on the road to good design: Case studies Foreword The road to good design One aspect of good design highlighted in the (2018) set out our design examples is the range of other benefits that can be vision and principles generated from multidisciplinary and multifunctional for the strategic road design that makes the most of wider opportunities. network. This first series Although important, road design that only solves a of case studies help us safety or traffic problem, is not necessari…

The following policy relates to claims where National Highways seeks to recover monies from a third party in respect of damage caused to the SRN. These are known as 'Green Claims'. Introduction 1.1 The Highways Act, 1980 (‘the Act’), is UK’s primary legislation to deal with the management and operation of the road network in England and Wales. As England’s highways authority for the Strategic Road Network (SRN), National Highways must comply with all parts of the legislation. 1.2 For the purp…

The government funding announced sets the Lower Thames Crossing on the path to securing private investment In this section Share this article Published 16 Jun 2025 The government funding announced today (16 June 2025) sets the Lower Thames Crossing on the path to securing private investment.  This follows the granting of planning permission for the project in March 2025. Matt Palmer, Executive Director, Lower Thames Crossing said: "The government funding announced today means, with plannin…

Published 06 Mar 2025 Based on this year’s theme for British Science Week (7-16 March), ‘Change & Adapt’, research fellow Yuandong Pan discusses how his work is looking to make our roads more resilient. Share this article About Yuandong  Yuandong Pan is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge and member of the Roads Research Alliance. His research is focused on ‘Digital Twins’.  What has been your involvement in the Roads Research Alliance to date? “The theme that my research com…

Little Changes, Change Everything By making little changes when you drive, you can make a big difference to reducing congestion, avoiding collisions and making journeys safer. Little changes, change everything campaign partner toolkit (March 2024) Little Changes campaign summary Campaign goal The campaign aims to improve everyone’s experience when driving on our network. In this first wave of our long-term campaign, we will raise awareness of two driving behaviours that can make a big diff…

The award-winning A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme was developed to provide much-needed added capacity to a vital road transport corridor between the North, the Midlands and the East of England. Start date November 2016 End date June 2022 Cost £1.5 billion Overview Documents Project information Overview The A14 provides a vital road transport corridor between the North, the Midlands and the East of England, and is of local, regional, national and international significance.…

This autumn marks a decade since we took over management of the Estate, which is owned by the Department for Transport (DfT). It consists of over 3,000 former railway structures, including tunnels, viaducts, abutments and bridges, and is a reminder of the UK’s industrial past. Many structures date back to the 19th century. Join us as we look back at some of our most memorable moments over the last decade. 1. Repairs to Lowgill Viaduct In 2014 we invested £250,000 waterproofing and repairing …

National Highways have a commitment to use local SMEs from within 20 miles of the project In this section Share this article Published 20 Mar 2024 National Highways and its Delivery Partner Balfour Beatty, hosted a supply chain networking event for local small and medium-sized enterprises to prepare them to bid for work on the Hole Farm Community Woodland. The event gave them an insight into the procurement process and the minimum requirements that suppliers must meet, and an outline of th…