How do standards in appraisal and modelling practices of road schemes in the UK compared to international practices? 

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:

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Related UKRI funded projects


  • 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

    Lead research organisation: TRL LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the problem of extracting meaningful information from road condition data, which is relevant to the question. However, it does not specifically compare UK practices to international practices.