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Improved customer service better planning and stronger relationships are at the heart of a five-year plan which sets out how England’s motorways and major A roads will be modernised maintained and operated between 2015 and 2020.

The pledges are made in the first Strategic Business Plan published by Highways England – the Government-owned company which will replace the existing Highways Agency from April next year the name of which was announced by Roads Minister John Hayes in Parliament on Monday (8 December).

The plan includes commitments to planning roadworks to reduce further works over the next five years clear up incidents more quickly increase access to local routes for cyclists and pedestrians improve the environment for those who live by our roads and make £1.2billion of efficiencies through innovation smarter working and better planning. Closer working with partners and stakeholders will enable better delivery and future planning for the next roads investment period.

Graham Dalton Highways Agency Chief Executive said: “This is another important milestone for England’s motorways and major A roads.

“Our Strategic Business Plan makes it clear that in order to deliver investment of this scale we need to work smarter build strong relationships and provide a really good service for our customers. This will allow us to provide a network that offers better journeys on better roads enabling growth across the country.

“The plan is ambitious and sets out a vision where safety means no-one should be harmed on our network; where minimal disruption means planning roadworks better over the next five years; and modernisation means more ‘smart’ motorways and a new standard of A road turning them into ‘expressways’. When we realise this vision it will make a real difference for the four million people who drive on this network every day.”

This is the first time a five-year business plan has been developed for England’s strategic road network. Published in response to the Road Investment Strategy published on Monday 1 December it explains how the new company will deliver the largest investment in roads since the 1970s enabling economic growth in cities and towns across the country.

The plan focusses on modernising maintaining and operating the network making specific commitments including:

– Building 400 miles of extra capacity by creating a spine of smart motorways that relieve congestion and reduce delays without the need for widening

– A safety programme that builds towards the vision of no-one harmed on the strategic road network

– The introduction of a new standard for A roads known as ‘expressways’ with modernised junctions refuge areas and advanced technology to keep traffic moving

– Substantial resurfacing of the network and reducing noise at 1150 locations

– Producing a National Cycling Strategy by the end of 2015

– Reducing the impact of incidents by clearing 85% of motorway incidents within one hour by working closely with the emergency services and partners

– Creating a new company with the right capabilities and effective working with suppliers.

The plan will be followed by a detailed Delivery Plan due for publication before Highways England starts operating in April 2015 which sets out how the Strategic Business Plan will be delivered.

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Highways england sets out £27bn five-year strategic plan.

Highways England has today unveiled the details of its five-year plan for £27.4bn investment in the strategic road network across the country.

Although the plans will be welcomed by the industry, the announcement surprisingly clashed with the shock news that Highways England chief executive Jim O’Sullivan is to stand down early next year .

The Strategic Business Plan and the Delivery Plan , both covering the period 2020-2025, will see Highways England deliver £14bn of projects improving the quality, capacity and safety of the motorways and major A roads that have helped keep the country going during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Almost £11bn will go into improving everyday journeys by repairing and replacing parts of the network, largely built in the 1960s and 70s. 

In a boost to the nation’s recovery, Highways England said its plans would help support 64,000 construction industry jobs. And it pointed to its recent opening of the £1.4bn project on the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon, which was delivered on budget and eight months ahead of schedule.    

Highways England chief executive Jim O’Sullivan said: “Our network is a vital part of everyone’s life. It has served the country well during the pandemic, keeping supermarket shelves stocked and enabling key workers to get where they need to be. Over the next five years we will increase capacity where it is most needed and continue to upgrade more of the network which has suffered from decades of under-investment.    

“We now have a strong track record of delivering new schemes and operating the network for the benefit of our customers and the communities we serve. The plan we’re launching today will protect and create jobs to aid the nation’s recovery, and make journeys faster and more reliable for freight and road users.”    

Today’s plans set out how Highways England will deliver the government’s second Road Investment Strategy announced at the budget in March. The company will: 

• Open more than 50 upgrades and save millions of hours by improving journey times; 
• Invest almost £1bn on broader projects to improve roads for the communities they serve, such as conserving cultural heritage or strengthening flood resilience, and improving access for walkers, cyclists and horse riders; 
• Make 7,500 households quieter by tackling noise from roads; 
• Help stop the loss of biodiversity;
• Develop a pipeline of around 30 schemes for potential construction post 2025. 

It will also take forward flagship projects to connect key parts of the country, including: 

• A new road and tunnel under the Thames between Essex and Kent, adding capacity and speeding up journeys between the Channel ports and the rest of the country, which will improve access to jobs, housing, leisure and retail facilities on both sides of the river; 
• Upgrading the A66, creating the first new Trans-Pennine dual carriageway since 1971, improving connections between ports in Scotland and Northern Ireland and those in England at Hull and Felixstowe;  
• Improving the major direct route between the south-east and south-west including a tunnel near the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. 

The national body will also deliver a series of major upgrades, such as improving: access to the Port of Liverpool; capacity on the A19 in Sunderland supporting local plans for an international advanced manufacturing park; journey times on the A38 with a scheme for the Derby junctions in the Midlands while providing extra facilities for walkers and cyclists; and the A12 in the East, aligning with local authority development plans. 

As much of the network was built over 60 years ago and needs renewing the company will:

• Resurface nearly 5,000 lane miles of road; 
• Install or renew more than 1,000 miles of safety barriers on motorways and dual carriageways; 
• Renew more than 170 bridges and other structures ;
• Invest £300-400m replacing ageing concrete sections on the A14, M5, M18, M20, M42, M54 and M56. 

Highways England claims the plans lay the foundations for connected vehicles, digital traffic management and enabling two-way communications between roadside infrastructure and in-car devices that will revolutionise inter-modal transportation and personal and commercial mobility. 

Marie-Claude Hemming, director of external affairs for the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA), welcomed the plans. She said: “This long-awaited publication sets out in detail the vital investment that will made to the Strategic Roads Network in the next five years, which will drive economic growth, boost connectivity, and create jobs. CECA looks forward to working closely with our members and Highways England to deliver these ambitious plans, which will mark a new chapter for connectivity in our roads network, to the benefit of businesses and communities in all parts of England.”

Click here to download Highways England Strategic Business Plan, 2020-2025 .

Click here to download Highways England Delivery Plan, 2020-2025 .

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Highways England launches Delivery Plan 2020-2025 with 52 new schemes on the agenda

• Construction , Design , Environment , Infrastructure , Maintenance , National Government , Safety , Technology , Transport
• 21 . 08 . 2020

Highways England has promised to open 52 schemes across Road Invest Plan2 (RIS2) as well as delivering ‘wider activities’ beyond the traditional focus of road investment.

This comes as the organisation launched its Delivery Plan 2020-2025, which sets out in detail how Highways England will deliver its strategic outcomes and measure success.

The Delivery plan gives details of specific funding, activities and projects Highways England will deliver over the five years from 2020 to 2025. It also explains how Highways England approaches efficiency and risk management.

It includes Highways England’s performance framework, which brings together its delivery aims for the second road period (2020-2025).

In terms of maintenance specifically, He said that it anticipates that the second road period will be ‘more challenging than the first. “Demand for our network is increasing, and many of our assets are nearing the end of their life and may need more frequent maintenance before renewal. Despite this, we intend to keep a flat maintenance funding level, without compromising safety or network availability, as we match increases in costs with efficiencies in how we work. We have also allocated a significant share of our maintenance funding to the emergency repairs needed to deal with unexpected incidents, such as fuel spillages,” said the Delivery Plan.

Over the second road period, HE said will make improvements in the following areas:

*Delivering data-driven maintenance

*Improving environmental performance

*Managing our soft estate

“Proactive maintenance is central to our journey to becoming an excellent asset manager. During the second road period, we will take greater control of our maintenance programme, including drainage cleaning, grass cutting and litter collection, and improve our asset monitoring. We already collect our own data to develop insights and we are carrying out more asset inspections, allowing us to refresh our data at a greater rate. During the second road period, we will make better use of this data to understand, and predict, our maintenance requirements. This will allow us to intervene early, before degradation becomes a problem. It will also allow us to schedule maintenance in a cost-effective way, combining tasks into work packages,” it added.

“We have already started investigating how we can bring together asset renewal activities with general maintenance work. This will help us complete even more activities every time we work on our network, lowering cost and reducing the frequency of lane closures,” it goes on to say.

Highways England said a focus will be brought to reducing the severity of accidents through a package of activities that will be developed around the theme of ‘safer roads, safer people, safer vehicles and a coordinated response to collisions. “We will review and refresh our Home safe and well approach by the end of 2022-23, ensuring it remains fit for purpose. We will also focus our safety communications on building customer knowledge and awareness, changing attitudes and influencing behaviour,” it said. As part of the Delivery Plan, £10.8 billion of funding will be made available for ‘operating, maintaining and renewing its network, which remains the ‘bedrock of our activity,’ against the forecast increase in demand on its network.

“Our primary focus will be to keep our roads safely and smoothly, and our customers informed and prepared. We will keep our assets, everything from bridges to roadside signs, well maintained. We will increase investment in renewals activity, particularly across concrete roads, structures and safety barriers,” said HE. It also makes a commitment to the roll out of its Asset Delivery.

Over £14 billion will be committed to major enhancement schemes. “As well as completing the enhancements started in the first road period, we will start work on 12 new major schemes. These range from the Lower Thames Crossing in the south-east to the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine in the north-west,” it said in the plan. “ We have selected and developed these major schemes to increase safety, improve reliability and deliver value for money. We consider our customers and the environment in the design of each and every scheme,” it added.

As part of its enhancements programme, HE will also make ‘significant progress’ in delivering a smart motorway core network.

In March 2020, government published its Smart motorway evidence stocktake and action plan. HE will take forward the actions set out by the Secretary of State for Transport. As part of this work, HE said it would also improve the information it gives to its customers to help increase safety.

On top of this, HE said it will allocate £936 million for designated funds, of which £66 million is to help it achieve no net loss of biodiversity. These funds will support projects which have wider benefits for customers, neighbouring communities, the environment and the economy, said HE. “We want our network to be accessible to everyone, including the walkers, cyclists and horse riders who need to cross it safely. Working with stakeholders and partners, we will design and deliver these projects collaboratively. We will work with universities, technology centres and research institutes to better understand opportunities for improvement,” said the document.

Over the second road period, HE will also work towards achieving our target of £2.23 billion of efficiencies by the end of the second road period.

As part of the foreword in the document, HE’s Chief Executive, Jim O’Sullivan, said: “Over the past five years, we have delivered the objectives of government’s first Road Investment Strategy (RIS1). We have opened 36 schemes for traffic, and started work on a further 31 schemes. These have added 370 lane miles of capacity to our network, helping customers travel more safely and easing congestion. We have also achieved efficiencies of £1.4 billion.

“Our ambitions for our network over the next five years are set out in our Strategic business plan. This document, our Delivery plan, contains the detail of how we will invest in the safety and smooth running of our roads over the next five years. It lays out the outputs and deliverables that the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) will monitor us on over this period.

“Everything we do will be in the best interests of the economy, our customers, our communities, and the environment we live in. Over the next five years, we will work hard to meet the new targets we have been set, maximising the value of every pound that we spend. We will deliver the best possible outcome for the taxpayer, and enable safer, smoother and more reliable journeys.”

To read the full Deliver Plan, please click here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/910866/5-year_Delivery_Plan_2020-2025_FINAL.pdf

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Highways Agency rebrands as part of its first five-year plan

The UK’s 2309 Highways Agency will rebrand as part of the organisation’s first five-year 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Strategic Business Plan Visit &quot;highways england strategic business plan 2015 to 2020&quot; page false https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/highways-england-strategic-business-plan-2015-to-2020 false false %> to maintain England’s motorways and major A roads up to 2020. The plan for England’s strategic road network was developed response to the Road Investment Strategy published in early December. The UK government is getting set to make deliver the largest investment in roads since the 1970s and wants to make sure it gets value for money as well as nearly US$1.9 billion (£1.2 billion) of efficiency savings through innovation, smarter working and better planning. The document sets out in detail goals for the agency which will be rebranded from late March as Highways England to better reflect its remit. Highways in Scotland are the responsibility of Transport Scotland and in Wales roads are looked after by the Welsh Assembly. Over the next five years, $17.25 billion (£11 billion) will be spent on capital investment and $7.8 billion (£5 billion) will be spent replacing worn out roads. Around 400 miles of extra capacity will be built by creating a spine of smart motorways that relieve congestion and reduce delays without the need for widening existing roads. The agency will introduce a standard for A roads known as ‘expressways’ with modernised junctions, refuge areas and advanced technology to keep traffic moving. There also will be substantial resurfacing of the network and noise reducing measures provided at 1,150 locations. The agency promised to clear 85% of motorway incidents within one hour by working closely with the emergency services and other organisations. As well, a national cycling strategy will be produced by the end of 2015. Highways England, when it officially starts operating in April, will publish a detailed Delivery Plan setting out how it will proceed to meet targets. Graham Dalton, Highways Agency chief executive, called the plan “ambitious” but that it will make a big difference for the four million people who drive on English roads daily.

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CECA: Highways England’s Strategic Business Plan Will Open A New Chapter For Connectivity

Civils contractors today welcomed the publication of Highways England’s Strategic Business Plan , which sets out how £27.4 billion will be invested in the Strategic Roads Network in the next five years.

The publication is a response to the UK Government’s second Roads Investment Strategy (RIS2) and provides the detail of specific funding, activities and projects Highways England plans to deliver to 2025.

Commenting, Director of External Affairs for the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) Marie-Claude Hemming said: “This long-awaited publication sets out in detail the vital investment that will made to the Strategic Roads Network in the next five years, which will drive economic growth, boost connectivity, and create jobs.

“CECA looks forward to working closely with our members and Highways England to deliver these ambitious plans, which will mark a new chapter for connectivity in our roads network, to the benefit of businesses and communities in all parts of England.”

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• One campaign group told the Telegraph the plan was "another meaningless partnership." 

AI cameras are being set up on some UK highways to stop drivers from throwing trash out of their car windows.

The AI-powered cameras will be installed in British lay-bys in the coming weeks in an attempt to catch drivers who litter, The Metro reported . Offenders could be fined up to £100, or $126, according to the news outlet. 

The initiative is being run as part of a trial by National Highways, a body that was set up to maintain and improve major roads. It will work in collaboration with a subsidiary of East Hampshire county council, per The Metro.

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The cameras will initially be rolled out in the South East of England, The Telegraph reported.

Representatives for National Highways did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. 

There has been increasing concern over littering on the country's highways. The Clean Up Britain campaign group said in February that it would pursue legal action against the National Highways body if the litter situation didn't improve.

John Read, Clean Up Britain's founder, told The Telegraph the latest approach was another "meaningless partnership" that sounded good but "always delivered no results."

AI cameras are already being used to monitor other aspects of driving . 

In February, an Amazon driver shared how the company's AI camera system is used to monitor drivers during delivery shifts. The driver shared a TikTok explaining how the camera can be used to flag delivery drivers for doing anything from taking a sip of coffee to failing to buckle their seatbelts enough times.

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The Strategic Road Network (SRN) has a key role in net zero Britain

Today roads are seen by many to work against the ambitions of a zero carbon economy. Yet to deliver a net zero economy, our roads have to be net zero too. This is why:

Britain relies on roads today

While many see cars as a problem, roads and cars are an integral part of our transport system. 80% of families own a car today, almost nine out of ten passenger miles are travelled by road and 79% of freight goods move by road (Transport Statistics Great Britain: 2020). Road travel provides a convenient, low cost and practical way to travel to see family, to travel to work and to deliver goods around the UK.

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While road travel represents a higher carbon way to travel in the UK today, this is changing fast. Already, government has indicated that sale of new petrol and diesel cars will be phased out by 2030. Government’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan puts Britain on a trajectory to do the same for heavy goods vehicles from 2040. The future of road travel is a zero carbon one, powered by renewable electricity, hydrogen and biofuels.

While we support investment in all zero carbon transport options, investment in other forms of transport, such as rail, will make only a limited impact on how Britain moves. HS2 will take between 1 and 3% of traffic off the SRN, for example. This is why The Committee on Climate Change forecasts that traffic levels will be higher than today in 2050, even taking account of the ambitious actions in its Sixth Carbon Budget which we support.

Today every £1 investment in the strategic road network returns over £2 to the economy. Our roads directly support sectors which employ 7.4 million people in the UK and contribute £314 billion in Gross Value Added to the economy. The industries that rely on the road network are expected to grow by 35% by 2030, which will generate an additional £110 billion of UK growth.

This plan aims to ensure our roads support the social and economic goals of our nation, while making sure we do so in an environmentally sound way.

Corporate emissions

Net zero 2030

Cutting our direct carbon emissions

Covering our network lighting, roadside equipment, travel and offices

Our first ambition is to eliminate emissions from all of our own operations. Together, these led to 82,000 tonnes of CO2e during 2020, projected to fall to to 50,000 tonnes CO2e in 2030 without direct action. In 2020 we achieved our commitment to only buy 100% certified renewable electricity. Our focus is now generating more of our energy on our own sites, decarbonising our travel and increasing the removal of carbon on our own sites.

100% electricity bought by a certified renewable tariff from 2020

Aim to generate 10% of our electricity from renewable sources on, or near to, our own sites by 2030

Plant at least 3 million trees on or near our land by by 2030

75% reduction in corporate emissions by 2025, compared to 2017/2018 baseline

Switch 70% of our network lights to LED by 2027

75% of our cars and vans electric or hybrid by 2025

Our trajectory to net zero

% reduction in emissions

Key actions and anticipated impact

Maintenance and construction emissions

Net zero by 2040

Cutting emissions from maintenance and construction

Covering the manufacture, transport and use of materials such as asphalt, cement, concrete and steel on our network

We are one of the UK’s largest buyers of construction materials, used to keep our road network in good condition and ready for the future. The emissions from the maintenance and construction of our network led to emissions of around 734 thousand tonnes of CO2e during 2020, which are projected to fall to around 350,000 tonnes in 2040 with no additional action from us. We have a significant opportunity to catalyse Britain’s construction industry to deliver the Committee on Climate Change’s call for the construction industry to be largely decarbonised by 2040. We will focus on the asphalt, cement and steel sectors. We will use a carbon management system to embed approaches that minimise emissions, including lean construction practices and the principles of the circular economy. We will also use digital technologies to increase the capacity of our existing network minimising new construction.

All construction plant and compounds zero emissions by 2030

A 0-10% reduction by 2025 compared to 2020

Net zero part of MCHW and DMRB by end 2022 and 2025

A near zero construction roadmap in 2022

UK’s first near zero road scheme starts in 2025 – opening by 2035

A 40-50% reduction by 2030 compared to 2020

Our trajectory to net zero*

* The trajectory is based on the rate of maintenance and construction activity committed to between 2020 and 2025 continuing at the same rate until 2050

Road user emissions

Net zero by 2050

Net zero carbon travel on our roads

Covering emissions from the vehicles using the strategic road network

We have set an ambition for all of our customers to be travelling using net zero transport by 2050 in line with the UK Climate Change Act. Many of the actions that will deliver this ambition are out of our direct control, but that does not mean we cannot play our part. Our priorities are to help roll out solutions to decarbonise HGVs, and support the uptake of electric cars and vans. We will also continue our work integrating the SRN with other transport modes, whilst working to improve the efficiency of the network.

Report in 2023 how we can help reduce empty lorry movements

Read our empty lorry movements position statement

Present a report to the Secretary of State for Transport on global HGV technology trials and our proposals for UK trials in 2022

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Publish a blueprint for EV charging services and energy storage by 2023

Read our EV charging position statement

Have a preferred investment plan for HGV charging by 2028, for RP4 implementation

Publish a plan to improve public transport on the SRN in 2023 and implement through RP3

Read our Bus and Coach Plan

Emissions reduced to between 20-7 MtCO2e by 2035

Estimated million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) emissions

* In line with the DfT’s Decarbonising Transport: A Better, Greener Britain (2021).

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While our 2030-40-50 targets drive this plan, we also have developed an interim trajectory, shown here. These will drive immediate action and provide an indicator of progress.

Corporate emissions We buy 100% of our electricity via a certified renewables tariff

Road user emissions 95% of the SRN is within 20 minutes of a rapid charger

Road user emissions 33 MtCO2e annual emissions from road users

Road user emissions We are continuing to equip our traffic officers with the tools to recover Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Road user emissions Implement our remoding trials

Corporate emissions Develop our renewables roll out plan and submit planning for our first pilot site

Corporate emissions Zero carbon memoranda agreed with our landlords

Maintenance and construction emissions Implement and certify a construction carbon management system

Maintenance and construction emissions Our specifications Manual of Contracts Documents of Highways Works (MCHW) have integrated net zero thinking

Maintenance and construction emissions Launch a zero carbon materials innovation programme

Maintenance and construction emissions Develop a 2040 zero carbon road map for concrete, asphalt and steel

Road user emissions Support to ‘project rapid’ delivering £950 million of charging infrastructure at Motorway Service Areas (MSAs)

Corporate emissions 75% reduction in emissions compared to 2017/18

Corporate emissions 75% of our light fleet switched to electric or hybrid

Maintenance and construction emissions 0-10% reduction in emissions compared to 2020

Maintenance and construction emissions Our specifications Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) integrate net zero thinking

Maintenance and construction emissions Our Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers have certified carbon management systems

Maintenance and construction emissions Commission a long term delivery partner to design a major net zero road scheme

Road user emissions emissions reduced to between 31-26 MtCO2e

Road user emissions By end of road period explore options for further freight demonstrators

Road user emissions Explore the potential to work with partners to practically demonstrate the EV charging services blueprint

Road user emissions Investigate energy storage to support EV charging at MSAs

Corporate emissions 70% of our network lights switched to LED

Corporate emissions light fleet is 100% electric excluding traffic officer vehicles

Corporate emissions 100% Our corporate emissions are net zero without purchased offsetting

Corporate emissions Light fleet including traffic officer vehicles is 100% electric vehicles

Corporate emissions Generate at least 10% of our electricity from renewables on our estate

Corporate emissions Plant at least 3 million trees since 2021

Maintenance and construction emissions 40-50% reduction in emissions compared to 2020

Maintenance and construction emissions Only zero carbon plant on our sites and site cabins

Road user emissions Emissions reduced to between 25-15 MtCO2e

Maintenance and construction emissions 70-80% reduction in emissions compared to 2020

Maintenance and construction emissions First major scheme that aims to be net zero constructed

Road user emissions Emissions reduced to between 20-7 MtCO2e

Corporate emissions 100% electric or hydrogen heavy vehicles

Maintenance and construction emissions 100% Our schemes are net zero, and where there are residual emissions, these will be offset using robust certified ‘removal’ offsets

Maintenance and construction emissions Zero carbon HGVs deliver to our sites

Road user emissions Emissions reduced to between 8-3 MtCO2e

Road user emissions Emissions reduced to between 5-1 MtCO2e

Road user emissions 100% The network will be net zero

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• Corporate and operational information (transport)

Highways Agency business plan 2014 to 2015

Highways Agency's programme of work to support the government's objectives. Contains information on structure, budget and performance measurement.

Highways Agency Business Plan 2014-15

PDF , 3.08 MB , 27 pages

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The business plan has 11 sections:

• introduction
• business context
• preparing for the future
• delivering our services
• performance specification
• a strategic road network that supports and facilitates economic growth
• a strategic road network that is maintained to a safe and serviceable condition
• an efficiently and effectively operated strategic road network
• a strategic road network that minimises its negative impacts on users, local communities and the environment
• a strategic road network that balances the needs of individuals and businesses that use and rely on it

The 2014 to 2015 business plan published on 28 March 2014 is an update of the 2013 to 2014 business plan published in April 2013.

As part of the government’s transparency commitment, all departments are required to publish business plans. They set out in unprecedented detail the public sector reforms that the government is undertaking, helping the public to hold government to account.

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