How should the lifespan of a new road enhancement be measured?
Background
The grow and level up the economy strategic priority is at the heart of the government’s agenda to spread opportunity across the UK. Transport has a crucial role to play, whether it be through improving connectivity across the United Kingdom and growing the economy by enhancing the transport network, on time and on budget. DfT has a number of specific interests in this space, notably our infrastructure projects, Places for Growth and our apprenticeships and skills work.
Next steps
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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ROAD Saver
RoadSaver will harness the road condition data currently being gathered by highway authorities. The objective is to extract better value from the vast amount of road condition data routinely gathered by local highway aut...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on extracting meaningful information from road condition data to improve decision making and efficiency in maintaining roads.
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The University of Nottingham And Devon County Council
To improve highway maintenance investment decisions by implementing an advanced road condition data analysis tool that enables more accurate identification and prediction of maintenance interventions....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to improve highway maintenance investment decisions through road condition data analysis, which is related to measuring the lifespan of road enhancements.
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Digital Roads
This partnership started 10 years ago, when Costain started a collaborative research programme with Highways England and the University of Cambridge that sponsored 27 PhD studentships and led to the establishment of thre...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The Digital Roads project aims to disrupt the roads infrastructure sector and make roads cheaper, more reliable, and safer, which can contribute to measuring the lifespan of a new road enhancement.