Highways England and local authority: data discovery
User-centric research on improving data integration and service provision between the Highways England strategic road network and local authority road network.
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This discovery report was commissioned by the Department for Transport to explore the current user needs and pain points between Highways England and local highway authorities when exchanging data necessary for delivering traffic and incident management services on their respective road networks.
The discovery concluded that:
- there’s an ongoing lack of coordination and integration between Highways England’s strategic road network and local authorities’ road networks, resulting in sub-optimum network management
- stakeholders do not know who to contact within different organisations because communication channels and processes are not well defined
- coordination and integration between highway authorities can be improved through increased system integration and data exchange
- there’s an opportunity to leverage and scale existing projects – including the collaborative traffic management (CTM) programme
- there’s an opportunity to design and implement national data standards to improve data exchange
The report highlights 4 areas for alpha stage consideration, and sets out a series of recommendations under each theme.
This report is part of the Future of Transport programme, which aims to shape transport innovation and secure the UK’s position as a leader in the transport sector of the future.