National Road Maintenance Condition Survey: 2006

National Road Maintenance Condition Survey: 2006 - This publication includes National Statistics on the condition of roads and footways in England and Wales in 2006. The 2006 National Road Maintenance Condition Survey (NRMCS) report presents information on the condition of roads derived from surveys of surface condition and skidding resistance.

Key results, extracted from the summary chapter of the full report, are available as a download file.

NRMCS Supplementary Bulletin: Structural Survey Results 2006 (PDF)

Notes

• The annual NRMCS is supported by the Department for Transport, the National Assembly for Wales and the Highways Agency. This publication reports on the condition of public roads, footways, kerbs and verges in England and Wales. This report also includes Scottish local authority performance indicators. Results are derived from a range of surveys of road condition which are collectively referred to as the National Road Maintenance Condition Survey (NRMCS)
• This is the final year that the NRMCS will report in its present form. From 2007, DfT will no longer be collecting CHART visual condition data on classified local roads and will instead be using SCANNER machine-collected data to report on the condition of these roads in England. This reporting will be based around the SCANNER Road Condition Indicator, developed for reporting Best Value Performance Indicators on local roads. The CHART method will still be used to report on the unclassified
  network in England.
• In future, DfT will report on English roads and the National Assembly for Wales will be producing its own road condition report, based on SCANNER data for all roads.
• It was not possible to include structural maintenance data in the main 2006 report due to data processing problems (please see paragraph 4.7 of the main report). Following further processing and analysis, a supplementary report on structural condition data was issued during August 2007.
• Although this paper on structural data had originally been planned for June 2007, the analysis for this has identified further problems with the series. In order to provide a useful comparison to the 2006 results, results for earlier years must be reprocessed to take account of the additional historical data supplied by some local authorities during 2006.

If you have any comments on future plans for the NRMCS report or would like a copy of the 2006 report please contact:

DfT Highways Maintenance Statistics
Zone 3/09, Great Minster House
76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR
Tel: 020 7944 3092
Fax: 020 7944 2166

Publication details

Published on 10 May 2007 by Transport Statistics

Email roadmaintenance.stats@dft.gov.uk for queries concerning survey results

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