Highways Agency - Safe roads, Reliable journeys, Informed travellers

This is the Highways Agency Research Compendium. Here you can find details of all ongoing and completed research projects from 1994, together with the current research programme. Search the Compendium by using the 'Find research' box above or by browsing the portfolio links to the right.

As an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport (DfT), the Highways Agency carries out operationally focused research to complement DfT's policy programmes. The management and delivery of the programme will focus on four main themes (.doc, 77Kb):

• SSN - Safe and Serviceable Network


• MT - Managing Traffic


• IT - Influencing Travel


• BRO - Being a responsible owner

Under these programme themes there are a series of Portfolios (.xls, 31Kb) designed to help us manage and deliver the programme key operational objectives. The current proposed programme will be subject to periodic change.

Research continues to play an important role in supporting the Highways Agency's operational objectives and further development of its role as a traffic operator. Click to view the Highways Agency Evidence and Research Strategy documents.

Background

The Highways Agency's key aims, in the face of continuing increases in demand for journeys, are to tackle unreliability, improve safety and provide better information to help road users make better decisions as they plan their journeys and travel. We will continue in our efforts to mitigate the environmental impact of using, maintaining and improving our network, working with our business partners to tackle the adverse impacts of transport on climate, health and quality of life. We also want to work with road users to help them reduce their environmental impacts.

We hope that you find the Compendium an interesting and useful source of information. We welcome all queries, feedback, suggestions for new areas of research and comments on the website itself by filling in the feedback form.