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A discovery report focusing on exploring ways the Department for Transport collects data from local authorities and other transport operators.
Guidance and pro-formas for developing and submitting investment proposals for local roads.
How to apply for a Street Works Act (SWA) code to carry out streetworks.
How Highways England use route strategies and strategic studies to plan for future investment and inform the Road Investment Strategy 2.
Summarises the road investment strategy, which outlines the government's long term aspirations for our major roads and motorways.
The use of traffic bollards and associated signing for roads with a speed limit of 30 miles per hour or lower.
Different mapping techniques for quickly locating and identifying buried pipes and cables to be able to reduce congestion at road works.
Advice on the use of quality audit (QA) in the street design process.
Evidence of smart motorway safety and actions to improve their safety performance.
Local transport note to help in the design of traffic management measures that consider and care for the streetscape.
Matrix traffic signs and light signals for the control of moving traffic on motorways and dual carriageway roads.
Variable message traffic signs.
How local highways authorities should classify roads and organise the primary route network without approval from the Department for Transport.
Part of the 'Raising the bar' health and safety initiative to identify best practice, raise standards and improve supply chain engagement.
Guide to road length statistics, source documents, accompanying notes, definitions and supporting technical documents.
Traffic signs guidance in response to the changing needs of traffic authorities, and the requirements of other initiatives.
Technical guidance for local councils in England on obtaining approval of equipment used to capture evidence of certain traffic contraventions.
Guidance about the use of light-emitting variable message signs capable of displaying text and pictograms.
This document is an update of an original Department for Transport document, "The Certification of Approved Devices", to cover road user charging applications.
Part of Highways England's 'Raising the bar' health and safety initiative to identify best practice, raise standards and improve supply chain engagement.
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