Advanced motorway signalling and traffic management feasibility study (HTML version)
Table of contents
- A report to the Secretary of State for Transport
- Executive Summary
- Defining the managed motorway
- The M42 pilot
- Safety
- Environmental impacts
- Potential priority locations for roll out
- The Business Case
- Further opportunities for better information and traffic management
- Compliance and enforcement
- Communications
- Introduction
- 1 Defining the Managed Motorway
- The context - progress towards the managed motorway
- Defining ‘Active Traffic Management’
- The toolkit of technologies
- Traffic management systems
- Further managed motorway opportunities
- Summary of conclusions
- 2 The M42 Active Traffic Management Pilot
- The decision to pilot hard shoulder running
- The pilot system
- The results of the pilot
- The costs of the pilot
- International experience
- Summary of conclusions
- 3 Safety
- Safety on the M42 pilot – initial results
- Emergency access arrangements
- Safety of future hard shoulder running schemes
- 60mph and through-junction running
- Summary of conclusions
- 4 Environmental Impact
- Climate Change
- Other environmental 'quality of life' impacts
- Views of stakeholders
- Summary of conclusions
- 5 Potential Priority Locations for Roll Out
- Where would hard shoulder running be beneficial?
- Priorities for the short to medium term
- The longer term potential
- Locations for Controlled Motorway
- Continuity of provision
- Roll out
- Stakeholder views
- Summary of conclusions
- 6 The Business Case
- Packages assessed
- Assessing the business case for the packages
- Impacts of packages on traffic and speeds
- Operation of the hard shoulder
- Emissions impacts of packages
- Other impacts
- Overall value for money
- Views of stakeholders
- Summary of conclusions
- 7 Further opportunities for better information and traffic management
- Opportunities for improved information
- Opportunities for improved traffic management
- Stakeholder views
- Summary of conclusions
- 8 Compliance
- Ensuring safe and effective managed motorways
- Promoting compliance
- The role of enforcement
- The enforcement context today
- Funding additional police traffic enforcement activity
- Future development of the compliance and enforcement regime
- Stakeholder views
- Views of our enforcement partners
- Summary of conclusions
- 9 Communications
- The importance of communications
- What communication?
- The communications strategy for the M42 pilot
- Impact of communications in the M42 pilot
- Stakeholders' views on communications
- Specific stakeholder engagement
- Summary of conclusions
- Appendix: Stakeholder Advisory Group Members
