Headline Content Partner
National Highways are your headline content partners for Traffex 2024 and will be speaking across every stage at Traffex, Evex and Cold Comfort.
National Highways will be speaking about:
- Strategic Roads – RIS2 and Beyond
- Connected vehicles data
- Electrification of the Strategic Road Network
- Digital Twins Case Study
- Improving biodiversity on the UK's road networks
- Case Study: The Lower Thames Crossing and PAS 2080
- Decarbonising Roads from Cradle to Grave
- Winter road maintenance and R&D
Networking Lounge
National Highways will also host their networking lounge on the exhibition floor where they will be meeting with local authority representatives and major contractors.
If you'd like to attend as a guest of National Highways, you can apply for your VIP Pass.
National Highways Sessions
Sessions at Evex
Wednesday 22 May 2024
11:15
Power Up! – Challenges and Opportunities for Electrification of the Strategic Road Network
11:15 - 11:35
Funding & Investment
- The government announced a pilot of the Rapid Charging Fund in December 2023.
- As we work to ramp up the provision of rapid and ultra-rapid charging for strategic journeys, Liz will speak about lessons learned to date and consider future opportunities in this space.
Sessions at Traffex
Wednesday 22 May 2024
09:50
Keynote: Strategic Roads – RIS2 and Beyond
09:50 - 10:20
- Finishing the second road period strongly
- Preparing for RIS3
- Highlighting the value of the strategic road network to the UK economy
14:00
Panel: Connected Vehicle Data: What Benefits does it Offer Road Operators and Transport Planners?
14:00 - 14:40
Connected Vehicles
- Improving transportation efficiency, enhancing vehicle safety, reducing emissions, and enabling new mobility services are touted benefits of connected vehicles.
- But how are these opportunities being realised on the ground?
Speakers
15:15
Case Study: The Lower Thames Crossing and PAS 2080
15:15 - 15:45
Decarbonisation
15:50
Modernising and Digitalising the Specification for Highway Works
15:50 - 16:20
- National Highways is modernising and digitalising the Specification for Highways Works that are used by all road authorities across the United Kingdom, and this will be published in March 2025.
- New ways of preparing and distributing site-specific specifications will be introduced and this will require changes to the way in which clients, designers and constructors work.
- This presentation will outline these changes so that organisations can adapt to the new requirements in advance of the launch in March 2025.
15:50
Panel: Decarbonising Roads from Cradle to Grave
15:50 - 16:50
Decarbonisation
- A discussion covering embodied carbon across all lifecycle stages, from design to construction, operation, and end of life.
- With the whole value chain in mind, how can asset owners work towards PAS 2080 and ISO 14001?
Speakers
Sessions at Cold Comfort
Wednesday 22 May 2024
12:00
Planning for Future Winters: Formulating an Updated Approach, Salt Strategy, and Delivering Sustainable Winter Service
12:00 - 12:25
Maintenance
- Considering our Net Zero journey in a winter maintenance environment.
- Our salt strategy.
- Adapting our severe weather service.
- Developing our R&D programme.
- Adapting for climate change – snowblower replacement.
Thursday 23 May 2024
12:00
Winter R&D Consultancy: Potassium Acetate Review
12:00 - 12:25
Data
- Motivation for the project
- Overview of the consultancy tasks
- The current plan for the KAc review
- Additional supporting work
- Expected outcomes
