Helping you improve and maintain roads See what's on at Traffex
Roadworks and Maintenance
Sessions at Traffex
Wednesday 22 May 2024
12:00
Panel: Designing and Maintaining Roads for a Safer Tomorrow
12:00 - 12:40
Maintenance
- Discussing the science of passive safety: designing for human error and building safer roadsides.
- How do signs and lamp columns injure people and how can we prevent it?
- What does data tell us about where to prioritise investments in pursuing Vision Zero?
Speakers
12:40
Roadworks Reshaped: Harnessing Technology to Alleviate Congestion, Enhance Sustainability and Boost Safety
12:40 - 13:00
Maintenance
Traffic Management
- At which point of a project do you consider the impact of congestion on road-users, including public transport and pedestrians?
- Steps we can take at design stage to reduce risk for highways workers, and road users.
- Sustainable solutions currently available that can keep traffic flowing, with particular focus in urban areas, and intermediary solutions to be considered when permanent systems are being replaced.
14:30
Roads to Tomorrow
14:30 - 16:00
Traffic Management
Coventry Lounge
- DfT will present an outline of the challenges of bringing technology to the road network, in particular in terms of the human and institutional barriers in place.
- Participants from a range of backgrounds are invited to share their experiences and perspectives, with a particular emphasis on what barriers they face and what opportunities they have to help others address barriers of their own.
- As part of that, we invite people to suggest what DfT should have in its ‘top five’ roads technology topics for the next two-three years.
Thursday 23 May 2024
10:00
Keynote 1: ORR’s Role in Delivering Roads Reform for Road Users and the Wider Public
10:00 - 10:25
- Who we are and what we do.
- How we hold National Highways to account with a focus on RIS2 deliverables
- Our role in setting the next road investment strategy, with a focus on our efficiency review.
10:45
Delivering Carbon and Cost Savings for Better Roads
10:45 - 11:05
Maintenance
Decarbonisation
- Maintenance Services
- Sustainable Solutions
- Achievable Benefits
- Setting the Standards
- Preserving your Resilience
