Highways England Investment and

Casualty & Performance Targets

David Stones

Divisional Director – Highways England

iRAP Innovation Workshop 2015, London, 15-16 September

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• 4,300 miles (40% Motorway & 60% All Purpose Trunk Road).

• 34% of all road travel and 67% of lorry freight travel.

• 4 million vehicles use the

network daily.

• Traffic Officer Service

attend and clear over 7,000

live lane incidents every

month.

Highways England – Strategic Road Network

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Strategic Direction for Road User Safety

DfT

Road Investment

Strategy

1 December 2014

Highways

England Strategic

Business Plan

9 December 2014

Highways England

Delivery Plan

2015-2020

26 March 2015

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We will ensure that by the end of 2020 more that 90% of travel on the strategic road is on roads with a safety rating of EuroRAP 3* (or equivalent).

We will ensure that the majority of those roads with 1* and 2* safety rating have improved to 3*.

Alongside this we will work closely with the International Road Assessment Programme, the Road Safety Foundation and the Department for Transport to inform the development and adoption of the star rating system.

Delivery Plan Commitments – Star Rating

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Leadership & Culture

Competent People

Managing Risks

Measuring Performance

Engaging Stakeholders

31 Road User Actions in the Plan

Safety Plan – Launch October 2015

The Challenge

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Safety Performance

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2014 Safety Data

22,889Vehicles involved

4.4%

10,589Road traffic injury collisions

4.4%

16,814Resulting casualties

4.5%

8.6%Of all reported road casualties in

GB

211Killed

13.5%

1,642Seriously injured

12.1%

1,853KSI

8.4%

14,961Slightly injured

4.0%

Motorway A-road Dual A-road Single

KSI casualties

720 5.4%

716 14.4%

417 4.5%

Total casualties

8,191 4.5%

6,247 4.2%

2,376 5.3%

Safety Approach

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ROAD SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMCollect data and carry out evidential research to

monitor implementation and effectiveness of the vision

SAFER VEHICLESEncourage

deployment of improved

vehicle safety

technologies for both

active and passive safety.

SAFER PEOPLEDevelop

intelligence led,

innovative programmes to improve road user behaviour,

with measurable outcomes

POST COLLISION RESPONSEImprove post incident responsiveness to minimise

the impact on casualties and the road user

SAFER ROADSRaise

inherent safety and protective

quality of the network for

the benefit of ALL road

users.

MovingTowards:Pre-emptiveSafetyIncidentPreventionPartnershipWorking

Moving awayfrom:ReactiveSafetyFixingProblemsEngineeringFocus

Today Future

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Smart Motorway

All Purpose Trunk Road

Motorway

Expressway (visualisation)

Modern Infrastructure – Route Types

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Highways England Goals

• Our long term goal is a Smart

motorway spine linking

London, Birmingham,

Manchester and Leeds.1

• In addition to adding capacity

to the motorway network, we

will begin to upgrade some of

our most important major A

roads to the new Expressway

standard.2

1 Highways England Delivery Plan 2015-20202 Highways England Strategic Business Plan 2015-2020

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“Our busiest A-Roads will become Expressways,

providing improved standards of performance.

Improved design standards will give greater

consideration to the needs of walkers, cyclists

and local communities along with the aesthetic

appearance of the network.” DfT Road Investment Strategy

Source: Highways England Strategic Business Plan 2015-2020

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Road Investment Strategy – the network towards 2040

“By 2040, we want to

have transformed the

most important of

these routes into

Expressways”

DfT Road Investment Strategy

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