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.
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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
Lead research organisation: TRL LIMITED
The project addresses the problem of extracting meaningful information from road condition data, which is relevant to measuring the lifespan of a new road enhancement.
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
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
The project aims to improve highway maintenance investment decisions by implementing an advanced road condition data analysis tool, which can contribute to measuring the lifespan of a new road enhancement.
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
Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge
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.