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The magazine of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation
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Transportation
November 2012
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Surfacing’s upper echelon
Pg 12 Helmet debate continues
Pg 16 Metrolink branches out
Pg 26 Louise Ellman MP interview
Pg 28 Winter maintenance
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Contents
Transportation Profession al
P r o f e s s i o n a l
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News: In cab lorry gadgets create dangers; Around the conferences: a round up of transport
announcements; West Coast chaos could improve procurement; Local transport schemes to need
“imaginative” funding from 2015; News from your Transportation Professional newsletter; Fast track
planning permissions proposed; ‘Eco’ Isle of Wight begins hydrogen fuel trial
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Debate: After the Olympic Games, should the balance of transport spending be shifted north?
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Working life: Transport Planning Associates' director Rupert Lyons
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The Highway Engineer: Tales from the past
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Just One More Thing: Jackie Whitelaw on the need for Government to get its procurement act together
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Letters: Should cycle helmets be compulsory? Readers express their views following last month's debate;
Accessibility at the Olympic Games; Olympic Route Network performed well
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Transport Sketch: Being bold to stay safe on two wheels
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Urban Rail: Manchester’s Metrolink increases its reach
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Cover Story – Road Surfacing & Asphalt Technology: Plaudits gained by new M90 surfacing
Top Jobs
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Traffic Technology: Using satnav to plan transport
Vacancies from our recruitment
section, page 39 onwards
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Parliament: Louise Ellman MP talks to Transportation Professional
A senior traffic / transportation
engineer is sought to oversee the
preparation of transport
assessments and surveys in
Buckinghamshire.
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UKRLG: Training the winter decision makers
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Technical Paper: Making rural roads safer by using ‘passively safe’ furniture
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CIHT News: Make road safety high priority Institution tells Government; North East Branch launches
60th anniversary celebrations; East Midland wins Locan Cup yet again; Successful summer visit was a
racing certainty; New UK First Delegate to the World Road Association
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Events: National events – CIHT and others, International events, CIHT Branch events
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Product & Service Update
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Directory
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Recruitment
This month’s cover: Echelon paving
on the M90 where surfacing to
Scotland's tough new TS2010
specification has taken place for the Fife
intelligent transport scheme (page 20).
Pg 6 M50 viaducts rebuilt
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News & Analysis
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In cab lorry gadgets ‘create dangers’
Lorry drivers risk being overwhelmed
by new in vehicle technology
designed to protect cyclists the
Freight Transport Association has
suggested – and this could have a
negative impact on road safety.
Policy director James Hookham
told delegates to a Labour Party
fringe meeting in Manchester:
“Drivers are telling us that with new
fittings, sensors, additional mirrors
and electronic equipment put into
the cabs, there is almost too much
information available.
“It has almost come to the point
where it is distracting from a driver’s
main task of concentrating on the
road ahead and where they going.”
He went on to say that safety for
cyclists can be better improved if
those on two wheels “respect the
laws of the road” and give drivers of
heavy goods vehicles sufficient “room
to do their job safely”.
Delegates to the meeting on road
safety were also told that hauliers
cannot always clearly see if cyclists
Safety of cyclists when riding by lorries was a hot topic at the Labour fringe
are nearby. Chair of the House of
Commons Transport Select
Committee Louise Ellman said she
had recently been invited to sit in the
cab of a heavy goods vehicle “and
until I got up there I had not been
aware of the restricted visibility.
“There is an assumption looking
from outside that the driver can see
everything, but this is not necessarily
the case. Our committee looked into
this issue and yes the evidence is
pretty clear of the need for sensors.
But there is the counter argument
that they may distract the driver.”
Ms Ellman went on to say that
new roads must be designed from
the outset with the safety of cyclists
in mind.
Danger of distractions were also
highlighted by the RAC’s technical
director David Bizley. “Distractions
can be bad for any road user but for
cyclists they can be catastrophic,” he
said. A survey conducted by the
motoring group this year found that
28% of those under 45 said they
texted or used a smart phone while
behind the wheel.
“Half of those people told us ‘well
it is all right because I only do so at
traffic lights’, but it is there where
you see what is going on around you
and see cyclists approaching
advanced stop lines. So it isn’t all
right at all,” he said. “We have to get
a grip on putting more and more
technology into motorcars.”
Mr Bizley welcomed the
Government’s new ‘Think Cyclist’
campaign but said it does not go far
enough. “If we are only going to see
messages written on variable
message signs on motorways then
clearly that is not going to achieve
anything,” he added. “The campaign
has to be more substantial and
complemented by enforcement of
bad behaviour that will minimise risk
to cyclists and other vulnerable road
users.” MW
Around the conferences
£170M for roads to unlock development
Greater use of 20MPH speed limits
was put forward at the Liberal
Democrats conference in Brighton.
The party’s transport committee co
chair Julian Huppert said: “Moving
towards a national 20MPH limit in
residential areas is the right thing
to do to further lower our road
fatality rate.”
Labour has pledged to help
families under pressure from rising
transport costs. Shadow Transport
Secretary Maria Eagle told the
party’s annual conference in
Manchester that she would force
rail companies to cap fares on
every route and reduce VAT on fuel.
Ms Eagle also called on the
Transport Secretary Patrick
McLoughlin to restore axed safety
targets to cut deaths and injuries
on the roads and urged him to get
behind the High Speed 2 rail
project.
Government will launch a study
Northern England and the Midlands
are the big winners in a plan to
reduce bottlenecks on motorways
and strategic routes to support job
creation and housebuilding schemes.
McLoughlin announced £170M for
highways, divided between 57
schemes, in his speech to the
Conservative Party conference in
Birmingham. The economic benefit
of the 57 schemes is said to be
around £3Bn, but only one of the
schemes is due to start on site this
year with the remainder beginning in
2013 or 2014.
“Keeping traffic moving is vital to
securing prosperity,” the Transport
Secretary said. “By removing
bottlenecks and improving access to
local enterprise zones, international
trading ports and communities these
road schemes will help get people to
and from work and power the
economy.
into extending High Speed 2
further north to Scotland and the
North East, Transport Secretary
Patrick McLoughlin told the
Conservative party conference in
Birmingham. He also said he hopes
all the main parties will back the
findings of Sir Howard Davies who
was recently appointed to chair a
commission looking at airport
expansion. He also announced a
fund of £170M to fix 57 pinch
points on the major road network
(see story next page).
CIHT Immediate Past President
David Gillham attended a Liberal
Democrat fringe event called
‘Connecting Britain’. David
presented the Institution’s views on
high speed rail, integrated
transport and future funding of
infrastructure. The Institution also
attended an event at the Labour
party fringe on car insurance and
the use of black boxes in vehicles.
“They also have the potential to
help deliver more than 300,000 new
jobs and 150,000 new homes.”
Speaking at the HTMA annual
conference in October Department
for Transport director general domestic group Stephen Gooding
anticipated the announcement of
the pinch point fund, suggesting it
would be one of the department’s
most significant inititatives in terms
of getting the economy moving.
“They are schemes for points on the
road network that can really unlock
development potential and are
tackling issues that are holding
development back.
“We are thinking of expanding it
and there might be a local
government equivalent too,” he said.
The RAC Foundation said the
schemes had an “astonishing” cost
benefit ratio of 15:1.
Details of the 57 schemes can be
viewed at www.highways.gov.uk
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News & Analysis
West Coast chaos could improve procurement
Contracts
Berkshire – Network Rail has issued
an invitation to tender for the
detailed design and construction of
13 stations on the western section of
Crossrail between Maidenhead and
Acton Main Line.
Inverness – Highland Council has
appointed Capita Symonds to
provide detailed designs for the
Inverness West Link Road.
Scotland – BEAR Scotland and
Scotland TranServ have won major
term maintenance contracts
beginning in April. BEAR will look
after the north west of the country
and TranServ the south west.
Negotiations for the West Coast Main Line franchise were cancelled after discovery of flaws in DfT proceedures
Contracting experts are optimistic
that the West Coast Main Line
train franchise debacle will lead to
improved procurement for all
Government transport projects.
The competition to run trains
on the West Coast route was
cancelled in September by
McLoughlin following discovery of
“significant technical flaws” in the
way the franchise process was
conducted. Three officials involved
in the competition have been
suspended and the Transport
Secretary has ordered two
independent reviews, one to look
at what went wrong on the West
Coast and the second to consider
rail franchise procurement.
“What might emerge from the
procurement review is a way to
make the whole process more
efficient and less risky,” said Steve
Rowsell of procurement specialist
Rowsell Wright. “Public projects
such as construction work for the
Olympics and Crossrail have
gone through major procurements
and not experienced problems,”
he said.
Those programmes were
procured by delivery organisations
employing specialist expertise at
arms length from Government,
he added.
CIHT Past President and
Morgan Sindall highways manager
Chris Jackson said the West Coast
issue “will demonstrate how
important it is for public
procurement processes to be set
up so that bids can be clearly
compared on a like for like basis.
And there needs to be a proper
balance of in house experience
and outside expertise in the
assessment teams.”
The high cost of the West
Coast Main Line bids which
according to the DfT could
amount to £40M and will be
repaid by Government to franchise
competitors Virgin and FirstGroup
will focus attention on making
public procurement processes
much cheaper and more efficient,”
Mr Jackson said.
“Efficiency in procurement is
vital to allow bidding
organisations to put in their bids
without an excessive burden on
their overheads. I feel optimistic
that out of this will come some
good for all Government transport
procurement,” he said. JW
Local schemes will need “imaginative” funding
Creation of Local Transport Bodies
(LTBs) will require authorities to
pool funding and find new sources
of cash if they want to instigate
major schemes delegates to the
Highways Term Maintenance
Association conference were told.
Department for Transport’s local
transport budget will be devolved
to 38 areas outside London from
2015 and will mark an end to
funding of local major transport
schemes under a central bidding
process for Government cash.
Distribution of money between
different areas will instead be on a
per capita basis.
“Any given Government money
can only stretch so far and so
raises challenges,” said DfT head
of local transport funding, growth
and delivery Mostaque Ahmed.
“DfT would have provided 95% of
funding for major schemes but in
future funding will have to be
found from developer contributions
and business rate reforms.”
“The sector will have to think
more imaginatively and collaborate
and pool funding.”
Government announced in early
October that decisions on local
infrastructure schemes from 2015
will be approved by new LTBs
following consultation on how
funding and prioritisation of
projects could be decentralised.
More on this story appeared in
the Transportation Professional
Weekly email newsletter. To catch
up go to the news section at
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In brief
● Diesel buses in Milton Keynes will
be replaced by electric vehicles on
the popular number seven route. The
new buses will wirelessly recharge
their batteries during the day.
● Network Rail has launched a new
‘See track, think train’ level crossing
safety campaign to warn pedestrians
and cyclists of the need to look out
for trains when using footpaths that
cross tracks in rural areas.
● Former CIHT President David
Hutchinson has been presented with
the Paviors Medal by the Worshipful
Company of Paviors. The Livery has
recognised David’s 40 plus years of
service, contribution and dedication
to highways.
CIHT 100
After the Olympic Games,
should the balance of transport
spending be shifted north?
YES
41%
Infrastructure investment has
been focused on London for far
too long. Over 50M people in the
UK do not live in the capital.
NO
59%
Most economic activity is in the
south. Transport spending should
be allocated according to need.
New participants are sought to
join the CIHT100 panel. If you
would like to take part email
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Also, see page 10.
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Replacing viaducts along the M50 in Worcestershire
Highways Agency has embarked on a multi
million pound package of works to strengthen,
refurbish and repair structures supporting the
M50 which opened 50 years ago. The picture
above shows a £12.5M scheme to rebuild the
eastbound Bushley and Ripple Viaducts between
junctions 1 and 2, which began in February and
will complete early in 2013. Contractor is Area 9
incumbent Amey.
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CBI CALLS FOR PRIVATE
OPERATION OF UK ROADS
Private operation of the strategic
highway network (SRN) with income
for investors funded from a proportion
of motoring tax revenues and its
management overseen by an
independent regulator are at the
heart of a new CBI report looking at
the future of roads.
Road tolling would be needed to
help fund new infrastructure
investment the business organisation
said. And the SRN would need to be
redefined.
The Highways Agency would be
abolished under the proposals with
some of its functions falling to the
new independent regulator and
others like the setting of performance
specifications picked up by a new
Highways Forum.
In ‘Bold thinking: a model to fund
our future roads’ the CBI called on
Government to overcome the funding
gaps in the “creaking” road network.
“A regulated model for the road
network would address the problem
of long term funding and one year
cycles by taking the road network out
of the Government’s budget. Users
would have a proportion of their
motoring taxes converted to a user
charge – controlled by the regulator –
to access the SRN. This charge would
provide a funding stream for private
operators – licensed by the regulator
– who would operate regional
sections of the network,” CBI said.
TWO MOTORWAY WORKERS
KILLED WITHIN A WEEK
Dangers of working on motorways
have been brought into clear focus
after two operatives were killed while
performing their duties within the
space of a week in early October.
Highways Agency Traffic Officer
John Walmsley was struck by a
vehicle while attending an incident
on the M25 near Sevenoaks and a
road worker died in a construction
incident as he repaired a section of
safety barrier in the central reserve of
the A2 in Kent. Investigations into
both incidents were ongoing as we
went to press.
VINCI/MERIDIAM
CLOSE ISLE OF WIGHT
Vinci Concessions and Meridiam
Infrastructure have finalised the
financing for their 50:50 joint
venture, 25 year contract to repair
and maintain Isle of Wight’s 821km
of roads and 767km of footpaths.
The project represents an initial
seven year core investment of around
£145M. Total value of the private
finance initiative deal will be around
£730M with remuneration from the
island's Roads Service reaching the
concessionaire in the form of a fee
based on network availability.
Construction, operation and
maintenance will be assigned to
Ringway, a subsidiary of Eurovia
which is a subsidiary of Vinci.
OLYMPIC BOSS APPOINTED
BY LABOUR TO PLAN
INFRASTRUCTURE
Olympic Delivery Authority chair Sir
John Armitt has been appointed by
the Labour Party to conduct an
independent review of the UK’s
infrastructure needs.
“And at a time when Government
budgets are tight we must think
innovatively about how we can
finance these vital projects drawing
on the private sector and long term
pension savings,” shadow chancellor
Ed Balls said.
On Sir John’s agenda will be vital
decisions on rail and airport capacity
and how to get freight off the roads
and onto the railways. “It won’t help
that our grandchildren are all driving
electric cars if they are sat in traffic.”
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Fast track planning permissions proposed
Transportation 20:20 – Infrastructure
NEWS INTERVIEW: New legislation
to make sure planning permission
decisions are delivered quickly have
been proposed by Department for
Communities & Local Government.
On the table is the idea for a fast
track route for developers and others
seeking to construct new
infrastructure that will bypass local
council planning departments if
those councils are poor at processing
decisions. If the proposal becomes
law developers will instead be able to
have their decisions taken by the
Planning Inspectorate.
The scheme is a key part in the
puzzle of new planning law and the
localism agenda and crucial for
delivering infrastructure that will
drive growth in the economy. It is an
encouragement to make sure local
communities use the new powers
they have been given to decide how
their areas actually develop, to make
planning decisions that will allow
development.
“The choice for developers will
only trigger if you are a poor
performing authority,” said
Government’s chief planner Steve
Quartermain. “If you don’t want
developers to go round you, don’t
be poor.”
As to what constitutes ‘poor’ in
planning behaviour terms, “we are
still working that out, but speed and
consistency of decision making are
clear indictors.
“The whole point is that with
power comes responsibility,” Mr
Quartermain said. “If there are going
to be local based planning decisions
there needs to be consistent
leadership about what is needed
locally. Why would any government
tolerate poor performance just
because it is local?”
The new National Planning Policy
Framework which replaced previous
planning legislation gave local
authorities the right to make
judgments on the development mix
for their areas. “But they have to have
a plan,” Mr Quartermain said.
“We gave decision makers a
framework with a presumption in
favour of development and Ministers
were clear that in plan making and
decision taking there needed to be a
positive approach and that in some
Government chief planner
Steve Quartermain
places this may require a
behavioural shift. There are times
when the answer (to a proposal) will
be no but the approach should be to
try and find solutions to issues if
possible.
“Planning is about making things
happen. This latest move is one of a
number of ways to drive performance
and the behaviour change; to say it is
not acceptable for local authorities to
have a plan and not deliver it.”
It is not just planning
departments where that behaviour
change has to happen, Mr
Quartermain said. “Highways and
transport teams, as they often are,
need to be positively engaged with
the local plan, working out what
infrastructure is required to deliver it
and how to make things happen. “
The Community Infrastructure
Levy – a charge on developers which
contributes to the cost of constructing
new schools and roads needed as a
result of any development – is one of
the key tools for achieving this and is
starting to play an important role in
funding new infrastructure, Mr
Quartermain said.
He dismissed concerns that the
NPPF is not strong enough on
sustainable transport. “The NPPF
says planning is about delivering
sustainable development and that
includes sustainable transport,”
he said.
And worries that there is not
enough guidance as to how the NPPF
should be interpreted are equally
unfounded, he claimed.
“The NPPF has an annex that sets
out what it has replaced. If anything
is not on that list then it still exists. It
is a bit of a myth that the guidance
has gone.” JW
‘Eco’ Isle of Wight begins hydrogen fuel trial
Isle of Wight has been rebranded an
‘Eco Island’ for the purpose of a
three year alternative fuel trial.
Companies including wind turbine
manufacturer Vestas and utility firm
Scottish & Southern Energy have
begun to drive 21 commercial
vehicles around the south coast
island that are powered exclusively
by hydrogen.
A mobile refuelling station has
been set up on the island, which was
chosen for the trial because of its
distinct boundary that makes driving
too far from the fuel source difficult.
“We are saying to our partners
‘look, this is the technology and it
works’,” says Simon Bourne of ITM
Power, which is behind the trial. “Our
objective is to demonstrate how
much energy the vehicles consume,
their cost per mile and the overall
carbon footprint of journeys made
using hydrogen compared to
conventional fuel.” The company is
also looking to convert two outboard
engines of a ship serving the island
to run on hydrogen and install a
dedicated dockside refuelling station.
“People are beginning to accept
that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are
arriving,” he adds. “The key date is
2015 when a handful of car
companies are working towards
selling hydrogen cars to the public.”
Dr Bourne was speaking at an
‘Investing in Fuel Cells’ conference in
London designed to encourage
financing of hydrogen infrastructure
and fuel cell vehicles.
Delegates also heard that fuel
cell vehicles remain very expensive
but the cost of key components has
the potential to fall rapidly if
production quantities ramp up.
Automotive consultant Ricardo
manager Simon Arbuthnot said: “A
mass produced fuel cell vehicle may
A hydrogen powered car on show in London during October
cost £35,000 in 2015 but could fall
to £23,000 in 10 years putting it on
a par with a diesel hybrid. Volume is
the key to reducing cost.”
Hydrogen is an abundant fuel
source but refuelling infrastructure
remains a major hurdle as there are
very few hydrogen stations
worldwide, he said.
He added that mass market
penetration for hydrogen cars should
come in around 2025 or 2030, but
warned that grand predictions came
to little in the recent past. “In the
mid 1990s the consensus among the
automotive industry was that fuel
cell vehicles would become mass
market within 12 years. By 2000 the
lead time had dropped to between
eight and 10 years. So 16 years of
research and development brought
us four years closer.”
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Debate / Working life
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Debate:
After the Olympic Games, should the balance of transport spending be shifted north?
Yes
James Lewis, Chairman
West Yorkshire Integrated
Transport Authority
The gates have been locked on
London’s Olympic Park after
seven years of getting the
infrastructure spot on. It is
time for the focus of transport
investment to be shifted north
so spending looks more equal
across the UKs.
Recent research by the
Passenger Transport Executive
Group illustrates the
disproportionate share of
annual transport spending
allocated to London; with £774
per person compared with
£276 for Yorkshire and the
Humber.
While it would be a surprise
not to see the capital at the top
of this league table, such gaps
don't exist in other areas of
public expenditure.
It is more than regional pride
that is at stake because
transport investment is critical
for economic performance,
whether through reaching a
skilled workforce or providing
Working life:
Rupert Lyons
Job title – Director, Transport
Planning Associates
Terms of reference – To lead the
company's management team and
maintain a very hands on approach to
No
access to markets and ports. It
is no surprise that September’s
Regional Economic
Performance Indicators show
the three regions with the
lowest share of transport
spending (Yorkshire and the
Humber, North East and West
Midlands) are also the regions
with the lowest economic
output measured by GVA
(Gross Value Added).
Whether it is the contrast
between the 20+ year old diesel
pacers bouncing round the
north’s railways with the South
East's electrified network's
modern trains; or the success
of London’s franchised bus
network compared with
passenger number decline on
our deregulated services it is
clear that change needs to
come.
And it’s not just passenger
transport that needs
investment. Unblocking
bottlenecks could unleash the
north's ports with potential to
support growth in the
burgeoning renewables and
energy sectors.
If the Government, and
opposition, are serious about
rebalancing and rebuilding the
economy then transport
spending has to grow outside
of London and the South East.
David Bull, Director of
planning and transportation
Thurrock Council
London has been successful
with three times the level of
transport funding every year for
a generation compared with
most of the south and east of
England and the English
regions. Now is not the time to
switch public sector investment
away from places like Thurrock
to the north and Midlands. The
risks are too high to national
recovery.
The Midlands and north have
many investment proposals but
may take time to get off the
ground. Places like Thurrock
will grow even faster for longer
if we get the infrastructure
investment we need confirmed
with improvements to, for
example, the M25 at junctions
30/31 (£900M) and new lanes
on the A13 (£30M).
There is no doubt that public
sector investment in transport
infrastructure will help create
more viable commercial
development in areas such as
Thurrock. We need high quality,
quick decision making on when
the investments should take
place to get the much needed
returns of more employment
and more housing.
Government’s £50Bn
National Infrastructure Plan to
generate funding for major
infrastructure projects is critical
to national growth. But every
Local Enterprise Partnership
and region will stake a claim for
investment in their area.
Thurrock is growing but
needs more infrastructure
investment to accelerate
growth. We have planning
permissions in place to build
3000 houses in Purfleet, expand
the established Tilbury Port and
significantly grow Lakeside’s
retail and leisure park. Any shift
of monies away from the south
and east now could hit our
momentum, economic
competitiveness and
commercial confidence and in
turn harm the recovery.
Our authority’s community
strategy identifies the borough
as a ‘Place of opportunity,
enterprise and excellence’. We
have a consensus to create
26,000 jobs and 18,500 houses
in partnership with the private
sector. Many sites are ready and
waiting for development.
a varied project workload.
Suitability for the job – A Master of
Science degree in transportation
planning and engineering from the
University of Southampton after
discovering that transport planning
was how I wanted to earn my living. I
have 23 years of experience, from
feasibility studies to detailed design.
Where based – Predominantly at the
company's offices in London,
occasionally in Welwyn Garden City.
Transport to work – Mainly by train
but I drive to the station.
Top of in-tray – Usually the current
draft of a proof of evidence, Transport
Assessment or Section 278 Agreement,
closely followed by client care and
business development.
Best aspect of job – Surrounding
myself with creative and talented
transport planning and infrastructure
design professionals – and reading
positive appeal decision letters.
Worst aspect – The last three years
or so have presented some
considerable challenges for the private
sector consultant – and reading
negative appeal decision letters.
What is the most important
transport issue today?
The successful development and
management of the nation’s transport
infrastructure asset in a sustainable
and equitable way.
How do you relax? – Barefoot on
the beach with those that I love.
What car is in your garage? – A
red 1964 Volvo 1800S in need of
restoration.
Ambition – Professionally, to lead
Transport Planning Associates to
become a best in class consultancy.
Personally, to remain happy and
healthy.
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Highway Engineer / Just One More Thing
Just one more thing...
The Highway Engineer was the first journal of the
Institution of Highway Engineers and was followed in
later years by Highways & Transportation magazine. Here,
Transportation Professional includes extracts of stories
published in the journals 10, 25, 50 and 75 years ago.
10 years ago
One of the most important gatherings of transport professionals in
recent times will take place at a conference to be held in the memory of
Sir Colin Buchanan who recently passed away. The conference, entitled
‘Traffic in Tomorrow’s Towns’ will be held at Imperial College. Sir Colin
was the father of the report ‘Traffic in Towns’ which is considered by
some to be the most important transport planning document to be
published in the last half century.
Speakers at the conference will include Professor Peter Hills, a
member of the original Traffic in Towns team, planning specialist
Professor Sir Peter Hall, former director of planning at London Transport
David Bayliss and Imperial’s Professor Stephen Glaister.
25 years ago
A delegation of Chinese highway engineers visited London and the
Home Counties, helping to cement relationships established during the
Institution’s visit to Beijing the previous year.
The party visited the offices of the Transport & Road Research
Laboratory and took part in a site tour to the Dartford Tunnel.
In other news the Institution has said that it will present an overseas
travelling scholarship to the winner of a national technical papers
competition for members under the age of 36. The winner will be
announced at a ceremony in London.
50 years ago
Only a third of traffic travelling across the River Clyde to the west of
Glasgow makes use of the Erskine Ferry, according to a survey. It
concluded that in the summer months the remaining two thirds of
vehicles are obliged to take long diversions to use alternative routes.
Nearly 1500 vehicles were found to use the ferry service during a
typical day. But a bridge across the river would be used, the survey
concluded, by nearly 4300 vehicles. By the year 1980 it was forecast
that daily traffic using a new Erskine Bridge would exceed 16,000
vehicles. (Erskine Bridge opened in 1971)
75 years ago
The last 40 years have witnessed the arrival and rapid deployment of
the mechanically propelled vehicle. It is no exaggeration to say that our
highways have become choked with traffic and their usefulness has
been reduced significantly.
“As all members of the Institution will realise,” wrote President J E
Swindlehurst, “the time has arrived when a comprehensive review of the
road system of this country is a matter of extreme urgency.”
Land and property will, he said, have to be acquired for widening,
straightening and diverting existing roads. But a wearing course that is
suitable for both fast and slow moving traffic may prove difficult and
expensive to provide.
Construction Minister Michael Fallon’s address to the recent British
Construction Industry Awards reiterated Government’s
determination to use investment in infrastructure as a route to
economic growth. At the political party conferences Labour, Liberal
and Conservatives all refreshed their commitment to that theme.
There is, as a guide to where to start, a National Infrastructure Plan
and at the last count £500Bn of assets that need upgrading or
constructing over the next 10 years.
But it is the actual starting that is the difficulty. Clearly major
works are happening – Crossrail for one. But so much more is
needed, the experts say, if new jobs and new wealth are to be
created. And how to finance infrastructure when the country hasn’t
got the money is the real nub of the issue.
There is a theory that investment in roads brings the most
immediate benefit in terms of employment and unlocking
economic development. And it is significant that Department for
Transport has announced it has found an extra £170M to put into
‘pinch point’ road schemes around the country to deal with
bottlenecks and keep traffic flowing. DfT director general – domestic
group Stephen Gooding said he believed it would be one of the
department’s most significant initiatives in terms of getting the
economy moving.
But Britain’s underfunded highway network requires much more
help than this. Back in March the Prime Minister said the country
needed to invest in its roads, both in new capacity and improved
condition. But he said private money had to pay for it. How timely
then is the CBI report just published which explains how this could
be achieved using vehicle excise duty money to guarantee levels of
return to the private sector.
CBI talks about handing highway regions over to the private
companies to operate which raises the spectre of franchise bidding
at just the same time as the West Coast Main Line franchise
competition collapsed in chaos. Counter intuitively almost, many in
the industry are saying that out of the debacle has to come some
good. There have to be changes in procurement practice to
something that is faster, cheaper and more transparent.
Michael Fallon hinted at the awards that this has been recognised,
promising Government would be ‘concentrating’ on procurement.
Which makes one wonder what it had been doing before.
Shared experience
Everyone at the Highways Term Maintenance Association’s
conference in October was profoundly shocked by the news of the
deaths of two road employees in the week of the event. Safety
should be top priority in this business but there is always more to be
done it seems. To that end the man on the Intellicone stand was
very busy explaining to delegates how intelligent highway cones can
instantly alert works teams when vehicles crash through their work
perimeters giving them a chance to get out of the way.
The cones are used as standard in Area 12 and it would be
interesting to know how much difference they have made. In fact if
anyone wanted to tell TP of successful road works safety initiatives,
now would be a good time. I look forward to hearing from you.
Jackie Whitelaw, Editor
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Kent TN4 8HH, f: 01892 524456, e: [email protected]
SHOULD CYCLE HELMETS BE COMPULSORY?
WE ASKED YOU TO JOIN THE DEBATE! AND YOU HAVE. READ ON...
DOES COMPULSION CUT CYCLING?
I'd like to comment on the excellent and
timely cycle helmet debate last month.
Mandatory helmet wearing may deter
use, losing the public health benefit that
massively outweighs the road safety risk –
around 100 cyclist deaths annually versus
158,000 deaths from circulatory disease
and 5000 from diabetes that are all
significantly reduced by active travel.
We would do well to collate evidence
on those countries that mandated cycle
helmets – not just to look at casualty
reduction but also the effect on cycling
across all age groups. Andrew Mylius’
letter quoted a 30% reduction in head
injuries which is good news, unless cycling
falls by 50%, especially among those most
prone to inactivity linked disease.
The data is complex; there is evidence
that helmet wearers have more accidents,
possibly as over confidence might lead to
behaviour that puts them at risk of a crash
where the helmet won’t prevent fatal
injury. Let’s gather data on all these issues
and establish net benefit because the
physical head protection afforded is only
one part of the picture. An Olympic legacy
of cycling as active travel for all could be
better for the national good than one of
cycling as sport.
Kate Carpenter, FCIHT
Chair, CIHT Safety Panel
[email protected]
TRAFFIC SCARES PEOPLE OFF
Making cycle helmets compulsory is a
sideshow which detracts from the real
issue and that is whether or not the UK
will ever seriously invest in cycling
infrastructure. I cycle far more than I drive
and always wear a helmet for the record.
There is a variety of cycle infrastructure
provision in the UK, mostly designed not
to affect capacity for motorised traffic
rather than putting cycling (and indeed
walking) at the heart of local networks.
My own commute includes oncarriageway advisory cycle lanes which
aren’t bad, but they are not of a high
enough quality to get more people using
them because individuals are simply
scared of the traffic. These people will only
cycle if they do not have to interact with
HGVs, buses and cars which are moving
faster then them. I am the converted and
many schemes are provided to make the
journey for people like me a little better,
not to help other people make the switch.
If there is to be a legacy from the
Olympics then it will be if the UK decides
to change its relationship with private
transport and questions what it would
really like for its communities. I hope
CIHT is leading from the front in this
debate.
Mark Philpotts, FCIHT
[email protected]
HELMETS COULD DETER CYCLISTS
As someone who cycles in excess of 7000
miles a year for transport, recreation and
competitive sport (as well as driving
around 30,000 miles a year) I always wear
a helmet. This is mainly because it has
become second nature as I have to wear
one when racing but also to ensure that, if
the worst happens, no one can argue
contributory negligence on my part.
However, I am not in favour of
compulsion as this is treating the effect
and not the cause. In an era where we are
trying to encourage sustainable transport
we should be seeking to encourage people
to use bikes for shorter journeys whenever
practical. By making items of safety
clothing essential it can send out the
message that cycling is a dangerous
means of transport.
What is needed is education of both
cyclists and motorists to ensure that road
space can be safely used by all. The
coverage of the needs of vulnerable road
users is woefully lacking in driver training.
Likewise, far too many cyclists are
oblivious to the risks they take on the
roads and need to be informed of the
dangers of issues such as filtering on the
nearside of stationary traffic.
Many people seem to over estimate the
protective powers of helmets. A cycling
helmet is just a few millimetres of
expanded polystyrene with a plastic cover
designed to protect from an impact at
12MPH (or reduce the impact at 30MPH
to the equivalent of 27.5MPH). The
majority of cycling fatalities and serious
injuries occur as a result of a collision with
a motor vehicle, the ability of a helmet to
protect in such impacts is fairly limited.
Wearing a helmet may well help reduce
cycling casualties and I will continue to
wear mine but we should concentrate our
efforts on trying to reduce accidents
occurring rather than deflecting the onus
onto the injured party to minimise the
damage.
Mark Prosser, MCIHT
[email protected]
A MATTER OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Cycling is a means of transport and of
leisure, promoted by economic necessity
and invention. Fighting, diving, horse
riding, cycling, flying or motoring share a
common problem, they take the human
skull beyond what evolution has prepared
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it for. So helmets make sense don’t they?
Perhaps the medical profession has a say
in this debate.
I wear a helmet but I don’t rely on it for
my safety. I rely upon caution. Mandatory
helmet wearing will be met with a liberal
attitude and could bear disappointing
consequences. I therefore believe that
helmet wearing should be a matter of
social responsibility.
Dave Hubbard, MCIHT
[email protected]
WE SHOULD PROTECT OURSELVES
As a cycle commuting highways engineer
for many years my first reaction is “why
not?” Cycle helmets are comfortable, light
and cheap compared to the cost of the
bike. The statistics quoted by Andrew
Mylius in the last issue are very persuasive.
I agree with Jackie Whitelaw’s point that
we are obliged to do everything, within
reason, to protect ourselves.
Compulsory helmets may reduce
numbers cycling but I think this would be
a temporary effect as once the helmet is
the norm, as with seat belts and motor
cycle helmets, numbers would recover.
The freedom of choice argument is all
very well but no doubt injured non helmet
wearing cyclists would still expect to be
treated free of charge by the NHS.
There is an urban myth that it is
dangerous to mix walkers and bikes in
pedestrianised areas which was the
subject of a study by the Transport & Road
Research Laboratory in 1993.
The report concluded that there were no
real factors which justified excluding
cyclists from pedestrian areas. It added
that in fact it was important not to do so or
cyclists would then be forced to use more
dangerous routes. This policy should be
applied in our pedestrianised town centres
and elswhere where the footway is wide
enough. Confident cyclists who move
more quickly will use the road but less
confident adults and children should be
allowed to use traffic free routes.
David Powell, MCIHT (Retired),
47 Thorneyfields Lane, Stafford ST17 9YS
helmet, I could say the same for quitting
cigarettes, moderating alcohol intake and
not driving 4x4s to the supermarket.
Just because something is a good idea
doesn't mean it should be compulsory.
The obvious parallel here is the
introduction of seat belt legislation in the
early '80s. This was preceded by a lengthy
public education campaign and
supported by overwhelming accident
research data. Seat belts worked very well,
being designed to mitigate the ‘second
impact’ – that of the driver against the
car's interior – by restraining the driver’s
torso. The ‘first impact’ (between vehicles)
is taken care of elsewhere.
Cycle helmets, by contrast, only protect
a small part of the body against the much
less predictable ‘first impact’. So they are
undoubtedly of some help in a small
proportion of impacts, but it is by no
means conclusive that helmets
significantly reduce fatalities.
David Redford
[email protected]
HEALTH IS THE PRIORITY
The health, environmental and
economical benefits of encouraging more
people to cycle instead of driving,
particularly for commuting journeys, are
now widely acknowledged. It should
therefore be at the top of every local
authority’s agenda to do their utmost to
make it happen.
As such, creating even more barriers to
encouraging new cycling journeys is
nonsensical. By forcing cyclists to wear
helmets we would effectively be saying
that cycling is unsafe.
If pedestrians are being injured then
safer crossing facilities are called for; and if
drivers are being injured then safer
junctions are called for. Why is it then that
if cyclists are being injured they’re
automatically at fault?
The focus of thought must be to create
an environment where all modes of
transport can move around safely without
hindering other modes. This is why we
have segregated footways, roads and
railways – so why don’t we have segregated
cycle lanes as part of the standard highway
design process instead of trying to squeeze
them in around every other mode?
Netherlands is the perfect example. The
Dutch have segregated cycle lanes almost
everywhere that are designed to interact
with the roads and footways so create an
environment where all modes of transport
can fit together.
The other fundamental reason why
cycling in the Netherlands is so much safer
than the UK is legislation that places the
presumption of liability on motorists
involved in a collision with a cyclist. This
puts the onus on motorists to look out for
cyclists and creates better awareness.
Paul Stephens, MCIHT
Principal Engineer
[email protected]
DRIVERS NEED EDUCATING
I am 66 years old and have been cycling
since I was 11 and from my experience, I
can say without any doubt that the biggest
risk to cyclists is posed by the attitudes of
drivers of motor vehicles, followed a close
second by the vagaries of a road system
that is designed primarily for motor
vehicles, with scant regard for the needs of
cyclists.
Any debate about helmets for cyclists
should have at its core the aim of >
I am a regular cycle commuter and,
through my own personal choice, always
wear a helmet.
However, restrictive legislation often
appears behind a mask of friendly concern
and this seems no different. While I would
agree that it is a good idea to wear a
© skynesher
GOOD IDEAS BUT DON’T COMPEL
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> reducing injuries. It has been shown that
the safest environment for cyclists is one
where there are large numbers of cyclists
on the road; in that event, motor vehicle
drivers are not only more used to
encountering cyclists, but are likely to be
cyclists themselves.
Mr Fogg (Debate last month) says that a
majority of serious cyclists already wear
helmets. This is not necessarily from
personal choice. I have friends who are
insured for racing under a British Cycling
Federation scheme which requires the
rider to wear a helmet at all times when
riding on the road, whether racing or not.
In any case efforts to encourage people to
use bicycles are aimed primarily at those
who would be classed as utility cyclists
and the benefits to them of taking up
cycling far outweigh the risks of
succumbing to heart disease or other
cardio vascular problems through living a
sedentary life.
Peter Watts, MCIHT
The Salt Box, Little Merthyr, Brilley,
Herefordshire HR3 6JD
• The measure is not justified. The risk in
cycling is too low to justify even
promoting helmets only for cyclists, let
alone making them a legal requirement
• It is well established that enforced
legislation is followed by large
reductions in cycling. These declines are
enduring. The National Census of
Australia and the National Travel Survey
of New Zealand both demonstrate this
• Less cycling leads to increased risk for
those who continue
• For young males, the risks of driving are
higher than the risks of cycling. Road
safety interventions must avoid
harming measures to shift young males
out of cars and onto bikes
• Helmet legislation is not effective; follow
up studies have repeatedly shown that
decline in head injury admissions after
helmet legislation were due to a) other
road safety programmes that reduced all
casualties, and b) decline in cyclist
numbers
Malcolm Wardlaw
Executive Committee,
Transport and Health Study Group.
ABSOLUTELY NOT
We have completed an extensive study of
cycling (from a public health perspective),
and would like to explain our conclusions.
The full range of evidence may be found in
our new ebook ‘Health on the Move 2’:
www.transportandhealth.
org.uk/?page_id=74
Concerning whether helmet legislation
should be introduced, we advise strongly
against this, because:
OLYMPICS: ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL?
I enjoyed the article on travel experiences
of the 10 Olympic Travel Champions.
However, I noticed that although there
was a good spread across venues, there
was not such a broad cross section of
society represented. For example, none of
the champions travelled with people with
disabilities or with infants/ buggies. It
would have been interesting to see how
accessible the venues were for all
transport users.
Corinna James, MCIHT
Cynllunydd Trafnidiaeth Rhanbarthol
(Regional Transport Planner),
Llywodraeth Cymru (Welsh Government)
[email protected]
Anyone want to comment on their
experiences for Corinna?
DUTCH HAVE IT RIGHT
It would be interesting to learn of the
cycling casualty records in the
Netherlands, and of the proportion of
injuries associated with the lack of head
protection or indeed high-viz clothing.
Contrary to common belief in the UK
about the provision and usage of
segregated cycle facilities in the
Netherlands, from my observations in
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cities like Rotterdam and Utrecht the
majority of cycle trips take place on the
ordinary road network. Here the exposure
to potential danger from errant motorised
vehicle drivers must be similar to the UK.
However, what the Netherlands
fortunately does seemingly lack are
cyclists, as in Britain, who regard streets as
their chosen battlefield. Some proactive
enforcement of the law to combat these
individuals would be far more useful than
reactive legislation regarding helmets, etc.
Malcolm Bulpitt, MCIHT
23, Bray Gardens, Loose, Maidstone ME15 9TR
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING FOR ALL
Anything which makes cycling safer must
surely be a good thing. Indeed, why only
helmets? I think that cyclists should be
forced by law to wear knee pads, elbow
pads, shoulder pads and gloves to
enhance their immunity to injury.
Why stop with cyclists? Your report on
the charity Living Streets is concerned
with the lack of footway maintenance so
I suggest that pedestrians also should be
forced to protect themselves from injury
arising from the increase in the number
of tripping hazards by the use of
helmets et al.
Jeffrey Yates MCIHT (retired)
Hfodty Goch, Saron, Denbigh LL16 4SN
SADDLE SORE
As a regular commuter by bike through
the mean streets of south and central
London, I wholly concur with Andrew
Mylius’ view on cycle helmets. In my 10
TECHNOLOGY HELPED KEEP
OLYMPIC ROUTES MOVING
It was good to see that many of your
readers experienced few or no delays
when attending events at this summer’s
Olympic Games (Transportation
Professional, October issue).
While most of your ‘Travel Champions’
used public transport to get from A to B it
should also be noted that major
highways in central London – which
formed the Olympic Route Network – also
performed well.
Our company deployed almost 200
solar powered variable message signs on
the ORN to inform motorists when
Games Lanes – installed to allow
members of the Olympic Family swift
progress – were in force and when
restrictions were relaxed.
The signs were controlled by a web
based software management system that
allowed messages to be sent to multiple
signs on different parts of the ORN in a
single transmission. This allowed
Transport for London to dynamically
control access to the Games Lanes,
opening them up to the general
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years of bike based commuting I have
now had the unfortunate experience of
witnessing many road traffic accidents
involving cyclists and have indeed been
involved in several.
While I have always had the fortune to
walk away relatively unscathed and cycle
helmet clad head intact, many of those in
accidents I have witnessed have not, and
it is a chilling scene to see a fellow
commuter being stretchered into the
waiting ambulance. It certainly puts no
doubt in the mind that any helmet has to
be better than no helmet.
However, I feel it is my duty to alert
Andrew and others to a more chilling risk
to cyclists out there. For here I am, sitting
uncomfortably at my desk, four weeks on
and still recovering from my worst cycling
related injury yet; worse than the bumps
and bruises caused by the idiot who slung
open his car door on me on Streatham
High Street; or the idiot van driver that
veered into my path on Kennington
High Street; and worse still than the
sprained wrist caused by the idiot
pedestrian who walked out on me
outside Waterloo Station.
It’s cause: prolonged contact with the
saddle that has led to the unfortunate
twisting of one of a man’s most delicate
assets and the lengthy recovery that can
only ensue from emergency use of the
surgeons’ knife on such a, shall we say,
sensitive place. Andrew, and other
cyclists, be warned.
Mark Hansford
[email protected]
public when demand from the Olympic
Family was light. Messages were
displayed in different colours to allow
road users to instantly identify whether a
lane was in use.
We were delighted to have been a part
of such a massive international event and
received praise from TfL for our help this
summer. The company not only installed
the signs but trained over 90 operatives
from TfL’s contracting teams to use them.
We are now talking to organisers of the
Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014
to see if they can be used there.
Tony Price
Managing director, Mobile Visual
Information Systems
Unit G, The Old Council Depot, Old Coach
Road Brookfield Industrial Estate, Tansley
Matlock DE4 5FY
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Being bold to stay safe on two wheels
“You cannot always trust the highway infrastructure”: Gerhard Weiss of the London Cycling Campaign
Gerhard Weiss drifts into a left hand turning lane fast but soon realised that he could complete his
on the approach to a busy intersection but
deliveries by driving more slowly. He now applies
continues cycling straight ahead. A reckless move this calm approach when cycling and says he
by a careless rider or the cautious action of a
rarely rides quickly now.
sensible cyclist?
I mention to Gerhard the Government’s new
“In theory what I just did was not correct, but
‘Think Cyclist’ safety campaign, which encourages
it was acceptable from a cycle safety point of
drivers and bike riders to make eye contact with
view,” he later explains. “If I had kept
each other. He approves of the
SKETCH initiative but adds that a friend from
to the right I could have come into
conflict with drivers. You cannot
Austria recently surprised him by
always trust the highway
remarking how courteous drivers in
infrastructure – the sensible place to
London were to cyclists.
be back there was to the left.”
I bid Gerhard farewell and head off
Gerhard works as a development
on a circuit of central London to find
Mike Walter
officer for the London Cycling
out how courteous drivers really are –
Campaign and has agreed to a ride
and to see if I could establish eye
“Van driver
through Southwark to show me some
contact with every motorist I encounter.
focusing on his
of the problems on local roads, as he
Next to London Bridge station I pull
sat nav appeared
sees them, for those on two wheels.
up at lights and stare at a van driver
not to notice me.”
He commutes 25km a day by bike
alongside but he appears too focused
and appears confident alongside passing cars but on his sat nav. Roadworks in Tooley Street force
travels sedately – a far cry from the caricature of
traffic into a narrow lane and as I glance over my
aggressive urban cyclist painted of many who
shoulder I am grateful that a motorist behind
ride through cities.
gestures for me to pull out first. But the taxi
Three minutes later we pause at traffic lights
driver in front who is counting a wad of notes
beside a T junction and Gerhard points out a
before stuffing them into his jacket pocket surely
park to our left from which cyclists are precluded. cannot have seem me riding alongside.
“It would be more useful and perhaps safer if we
Traffic slows as I head across the river and into
could cycle through there and avoid this
the City. I look around to see which drivers are
junction,” he says. As he pauses for a photograph looking my way but in bright sunlight it is hard to
a female cyclist ignores a red signal that was
see faces through the windscreens. A car in a side
about to turn green and rides out across the
turning looks ready to pull out so I look straight
intersection which was clear of traffic. I ask
at the driver and he stares back. But there is no
Gerhard for his thoughts: “She was jumping the
flicker of a smile or nod so it is difficult to tell if
lights but was not doing anything particularly
he will wait for me.
dangerous. You see that a lot in London.”
But the two incidents which posed the greatest
Cyclists in cities have a “heightened awareness threat to my welfare came not from motorists.
of their surroundings”, he adds, whereas car
Approaching Bank station a trio of pedestrians
drivers can become “withdrawn into their own
stepped out into the road narrowly missing my
front wheel. And another bike rider cut across my
world”. Ideally, he says, riders should relax a little
path as he turned while I was heading straight
and drivers would pay more attention.
on. Maybe the Government’s ‘Think Cyclist’
But Gerhard is not anti car. He owns a vehicle
campaign should be aimed at pedestrians and
which he uses for long distance journeys and
other bike riders too.
once had a job as a van driver. He used to drive
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Manchester’s Metrolink
increases its reach
Piccadilly station, Manchester, from where a new Metrolink line out to Droylsden in the east of the city will soon open
Light rail’s large influence in Manchester is increasing further with
two new extensions to the Metrolink network opening later this year.
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anchester’s Metrolink is seeking
to double the number of
journeys made within four years
and become three times larger in size
compared to when it first opened two
decades ago. A series of new and extended
routes are currently being built and tested
– and more are planned. But try not to
refer to Metrolink as a tram.
“I would describe Metrolink as a light rail
system rather than a tram system,” says its
director Philip Purdy. “This is because our
services travel at up to 50MPH on
dedicated corridors away from the city and
slow right down when they pass through
the centre. I don’t believe too many other
UK tram networks operate in quite the
same way. We see around 22M journeys a
year and aim to double that by the time
a new link to Manchester Airport opens
in 2016.”
Expansion of Metrolink is, according to
Mr Purdy, “probably the UK’s biggest
transport infrastructure project outside of
London”. On the one hand there appears to
be “no strategy for city transport” coming
from central Government, he says. But
then again it is only right, he adds, that
local city authorities “make their own
decisions” regarding major infrastructure
investment.
Manchester failed in 2008 to introduce
congestion charging for motorists that
would have unlocked £3Bn for public
transport improvements through the
Labour Government’s short lived Transport
Innovation Fund. But the following year a
£1.5Bn fund was agreed by the city’s
authorities to invest in 15 transport
schemes including improvements to the
light rail network.
Metrolink first opened in 1992 linking
Bury in the north of the city with
Altrincham to the south. A second line to
Eccles in the west started running services
in 2000 and an extension to Media City at
Salford Quays opened a decade later.
Four new lines are under construction to
increase Metrolink’s reach. Next to open
later this year will be an extension of the
Oldham Line as far as Rochdale, with street
running sections in each town centre
completing in 2014. And a second route
known as the East Manchester Line will
travel out of the city from Piccadilly
station. For the moment it will run out as
far as Droylsden, with a further extension
to Ashton Under Lyne due by spring 2014.
Further improvements include a
development of the South Manchester Line
to East Didsbury (opening next summer)
and a new line out to Manchester Airport
which should be ready within four years.
“Manchester has long had a grand plan
to develop a light rail system but it has
been delivered in phases and has had a
chequered history,” explains Mr Purdy.
“The project has seen lots of starts and
stops over the years and there have been
issues to do with funding. But hats off to
the Greater Manchester authorities, they
are all behind the expansions to
Metrolink.”
Objectives of the new lines are not only
to reduce traffic congestion but to
stimulate urban renewal, Mr Purdy adds.
“What trams do more than any other mode
of public transport is they provide
regeneration. This is happening in areas
such as Bury and Eccles, but it can take five
or 10 years.”
The light rail network may be broad in
scope but Mr Purdy says buses and trains
will continue to play a crucial role in
Manchester’s public transport mix –
especially the buses, which account for
around four in five journeys by public
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pick up all of the communities in between
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areas that Metrolink does not. The three
systems complement one another.”
Frequency of vehicles travelling around
the Metrolink system will soon increase
from 15 trams an hour in each direction to
40 following the introduction of a new
signalling system. At the moment trams
are largely controlled using block
signalling whereby only one vehicle can
enter a designated area, or ‘block’, at a
time. This means a tram has to wait before
the vehicle in front leaves that block.
Metrolink is now moving to a principle of
‘line of sight’ meaning that drivers are
allowed to exercise more judgement over
the headway they leave. This means that
more trams should be able to use a
section of track.
“Most tramways around the world
operate on line of sight and we have
started rolling this out on the Eccles line.
But change takes place gradually,” Mr
Purdy says. “The transition has to be
managed carefully to ensure drivers and
controllers are comfortable with the new
system.” Areas of conflict such as road
junctions will, however, continue to be
controlled.
Philip Purdy arrived in Manchester four
years ago to run Metrolink and oversee its
expansion. For the previous 30 years he
worked on the Melbourne tram – “the
biggest tram network in the world” –
starting in 1978 as a structural bridge
designer and ending up as manager of
asset development.
His next challenge in Manchester is to
push the case for a second Metrolink route
through the city centre which may involve
a public inquiry. The new route should
allow a greater number of trams to
operate, bring people to other parts of the
city and provide greater resilience to the
system if a vehicle breaks down. Beyond
this scheme a further line may be
developed through Trafford Park business
centre towards Port Salford.
“I want to make Metrolink even more
successful, deliver improvements within
budget and help with regeneration in the
city,” he adds. “And to do that it is
important to have political support locally,
which we have. If you lose that support
then it does not matter how good a
scheme you have got, as you will be
fighting a battle.” MW
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Road Surfacing & Asphalt Technology
November 2 0 1 2
Paving in echelon required great care: not least in planning the logistics to guarentee continuous supply
Plaudits gained
by new M90 surfacing
Early evaluation of surfacing work on the M90 at Rosyth – the first major application of
Scotland’s new TS2010 specification – has earned an emphatic thumbs up. Ty Byrd reports.
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ransport Scotland’s determination
to obtain pavement that is durable,
long lasting and safe (especially in
early life) is clearly apparent on the M90
just north of the Forth Road Bridge. Here
surfacing has been carried out this spring
to TS2010, a tough new specification
designed to ensure thin surfacings that
actually work. And the initial prognosis is
good: the Scottish Inspection Panel visited
the job in September and liked what it saw.
The M90 works – known as the Fife
Intelligent Transport System (ITS) contract
– is one of three elements of the Forth
Replacement Crossing project. The others
are the new bridge plus approach roads,
plus associated pavement works (which
and a major upgrade of the M9’s junction
included total resurfacing of the
1a at Kirkliston (see box).
carriageway). It is the carriageway works
Fife ITS has been all about converting
that proved quite a challenge – in terms of
3.8km of the existing
materials design, application,
“TS2010’s first
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major use
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success.”
and direct traffic flows
materials and QA advisor
Dougie Millar
heading south to the
Dougie Millar has had much to
Forth Road Bridge and north from it.
do with the new specification. As he says:
The £12.8M design and build contract
“It has ensured that this section of M90
carriageway is resilient, should serve a
involved the upgrading of the southbound
long time and provide beneficial surface
M90 hard shoulder (to serve as a bus lane)
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Asphalting required considerable care – the new material having to be delivered on time, to the right mix,
with the right PSV aggregates
characteristics from day one.” He adds
that an application of grit is ensuring the
carriageway has a high standard of early
life resistance to skidding.
The standards achieved have been high
enough to impress the Scottish Inspection
Panel (SIP). A body established in 2008 of
surfacing experts – from Transport
Scotland, Mineral Products Association,
Performance Audit Group and TRL – the
panel visits sites all over Scotland each
year to visually inspect surfacing work that
is generally two years old.
In service performance is recorded in
the panel’s annual report which also aims
to identify and track typical modes of
failure; and then eliminate these modes.
TS2010 is a direct result of a SIP initiative
to tackle a perceived lack of durability of
SMA thin surfacings. Being only three
months old, the M90 works should not
really have been in the itinerary but
TS2010 having been their baby, panel
members could not resist a quick
inspection. They were impressed by what
they saw, according to Millar.
Motorists using the M90 were likewise
impressed over two weekends earlier in
the spring, by the scale and speed of
operation when the actual carriageway
surfacing works were carried out. It is not
often that three pavers can be seen laying
asphalt in echelon on British roads so
when it happens it generates attention.
The reason that multi paver surfacing was
used on the M90 is simple: Transport
Scotland does not favour longitudinal
joints in its super new pavement.
No joints means no path through which
water can pass, eliminating a possible
weak spot from the start. Preventing water
ingress is only a small part of the story,
however: TS2010 is intended to maximise
the return on the Scottish Government’s
investment by minimising premature
failure and subsequent
interventions.
“The M90’s surfacing
has been laid to last and
be safe from the off,”
says Breedon Aggregates
Scotland contracts
director Kevin Carmichael. Breedon is the
surfacing subcontractor, working out of its
base in Fife. “Paving in echelon as we did
required great care and so did the
compaction and gritting that followed on
immediately behind the pavers.”
The principal contractor on the Fife ITS
contract was GRAHAM Construction. It
oversaw as part of its contract some very
complex surfacing. Layers beneath the
surface had to be sorted out with some
areas of both base and binder courses
planed out and replaced. An optimum
design had to be evolved which precluded
the taking away of anything that did not
need to be removed; while on the other
hand not leaving behind areas of actual or
potential weakness.
The target was to achieve consistent
structural competency of the carriageway,
across all three lanes. This included areas
of total reconstruction of the original
hard shoulder.
All this meant a thorough survey
involving visual inspection, FWD (falling
weight deflectometer) analysis and the
testing of cores. Eventually a high quality
EME2 high modulus asphalt was chosen
for the base, binder and regulating layers,
with a TS2010 compliant mix from
Breedon specified for the surfacing.
The path to obtaining official approval
for a TS2010 mix is comparatively long and
exacting and follows a course dictated by
the specification’s required TAIT, or type
approval installation trial. This has four
stages, the first three intended to ensure
that the fourth – proofing the material
at two years – never produces a
negative result.
First is the design stage, very much to
the TS2010 specification. Then comes a
plant trial, where the designed material is
mixed; laid both with grit and without grit;
and then put to the test, both destructively
and non destructively. This last is a crucial
element. The test results are correlated to
make the non destructive testing
comprehensively meaningful. The
intention is that tests in the field can
subsequently be carried out just by using
non destructive methods without the
necessity to take cores, for example, from
sound carriageway.
“The M90’s
Stage three is a network
surfacing –
trial, where 20t or so of the
laid to last and
design mix is laid within
be ultra safe.”
the carriageway of a live
Kevin
road, to measure in
Carmichael
particular skidding
resistance. “We chose a non event area for
this particular stage,” says Dougie Millar.
Stage four is the aforementioned proofing
at two years. Transport Scotland
supervises the TAIT process, making sure
that the laying contractor and its staff
know what is being done and why it’s
being done.
“Knowledge transfer is the key to better
application of technology,” Mr Millar says.
“We provide advice and guidance about
laying TS2010 material too: there’s no
point in getting everything right at the
design stage if you don’t lay the material
properly.”
For the M90 TS2010 mix the aggregate
used was of 10mm nominal size and of
varying PSV, to suit different areas of
application. Approaches to junctions for
example had stone of 68PSV while the >
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Forth replacement crossing
Forth Replacement Crossing – intended to
provide a long term crossing of the Firth of
Forth (the existing bridge showing signs of
deterioration); made up of three contracts.
1. Fife ITS design and build contract
Principal contractor: GRAHAM
Construction. Designer: Mouchel.
Principal asphalting contractor: Breedon
Aggregates (Scotland). Value: £12.8M.
Completion: Late summer 2012.
2. New Forth Road Bridge and
connecting roads
Principal contractor: Forth Crossing
Bridge Constructors (a consortium of
Hochtief, Morrison Construction,
American Bridge and Dragados.
Value: £790M. Completion: 2016.
3. Upgrade of the M9 junction 1a at
Kirkliston
Principal contractor: John Sisk and
Roadbridge. Value: £25.6M.
Completion: Spring 2013.
Employer: Transport Scotland
Employer’s engineer: Jacobs Arup JV
Grit was applied to ensure that the renewed carriageway had a high standard of early life skid resistance
> lesser stressed areas had 60PSV. The
binder was Nypol 103, supplied by Nynas.
Nynas’ Scottish area sales manager Nigel
Hardy says: “This material is a highly
polymer modified elastomeric binder with
exceptional resistance to
permanent deformation and
cracking. These
characteristics mean it is well
suited to the kind of durable
asphalt that TS2010 is
intended to produce.”
Nynas also supplied the bitumen that
went into the job’s EME2 asphalt mixture,
the chosen binder being Nypave FX 20.
This according to Mr Hardy is a hard
paving grade bitumen specially
developed for use in high modulus
asphalts such as EME2.
There was an “exceptionally high level of
cooperation” between all parties to the
contract, the planning of the surfacing
logistics requiring a high degree of effort.
The carriageway asphalting work as a
whole, along with its allied traffic
management, could be described as a
logistical challenge
“Nypol 103 is
according to Dougie
well suited to
Millar.
TS2010
There was the task
durable
of getting planings
asphalt.”
away and new material
Nigel Hardy
in – the latter on time,
to the right mix, with the right PSV
aggregate and to the right location.
Referring specifically to the surfacing,
there has been the need to supply three
laying machines working in echelon,
getting the grit down in the right
quantities, then compacting the newly laid
asphalt with its grit topping in a timely and
effective manner.
Traffic management was carried out
24/7 by GRAHAM Highway Management
Maintenance (HMM). Two way traffic had
to be maintained at all times and
contraflows were put in place to allow full
closure of the southbound carriageway,
the surfacing having to be carried out in
one pass at weekends.
“Normally we wouldn’t have had full
closure,” says Mr Millar, “possession would
have been much more piecemeal, more
disruptive, more expensive and taken
longer. As it was, the work was scheduled
to be done over four weekends and
GRAHAM and its team managed to get
that down to just two.
“That said, Breedon did particularly well
and praise should go to the company. The
asphalting was carried out superbly and
TS2010’s first major use seems to be a
resounding success.”
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Traffic Technology
Using satnav to plan transport
Mott MacDonald says it has developed a method for gaining more comprehensive information on road
use, yielding better insight into travel patterns, at only 10% of the cost of traditional traffic surveys.
Transportation director Tom van Vuren explains how.
TP: What’s the big idea?
Tom van Vuren: Data on road
travel is usually generated
through travel surveys
conducted ‘in the field’ by
counting vehicles and
conducting face-to-face
interviews. These are labour intensive and
expensive, costing £5000 - £10,000 per
day while providing information for only
1000 trips. We have developed an
alternative methodology, using data
generated by GPS navigation – ‘satnav’ –
devices that is more accurate, safer and
costs 90% less.
TP: How does it work?
Tom van Vuren: Data collected from
satnav devices gives the precise location
of a vehicle every few seconds. The data is
available commercially, enabling
transport planners to see how many
vehicles are using a section of road and
how fast they are travelling. The growing
number of vehicles equipped with GPS
means that every year the amount of data
available is increasing.
Mott MacDonald’s innovations are in
developing systems to analyse and
manipulate that raw data so that it can be
used to strengthen the transport system.
The company has also developed a
method for adjusting data to account for
imbalance between the number and type
of vehicles fitted with GPS – for example
newer and higher value private vehicles,
fleet and commercial goods vehicles.
TP: How will it strengthen
the transport system?
Tom van Vuren: In order to predict how
travel patterns may change if you build
new roads, provide new public transport
or change the way that infrastructure is
managed, you need to understand what
journeys people make and why.
One of the big challenges transport
planners face is obtaining accurate
representative information to inform
their decisions. It is well recognised that
Traffic surveys can now be generated by in car GPS devices and at 10% of the cost of ‘in the field’ surveys
traditional roadside surveys often
produce skewed information – long
queues can develop at interview sites,
with tetchy drivers providing unhelpful
answers and others using local knowledge
to detour around the jam. Cost means
that continuous long term monitoring is a
rarity. And carrying out surveys can
introduce safety risk, meaning that on
many roads they are simply not allowed.
GPS data overcomes all those problems.
TP: What are the benefits?
Tom van Vuren: A great benefit of our GPS
survey method is that we can gather
detailed information on sections of the
transport network that normally transport
planners have no access to. We can see
where drivers stop en route and find out
whether their return journey takes the
same roads. By cross referencing origin
and destination data with information on
land use it is possible to build a picture of
why journeys are being made – for
example home to school, work, the shops
or leisure facilities.
TP: Where can it be used?
Tom van Vuren: The method can be used
anywhere that GPS data is collected
abundantly and made commercially
available – so the UK, Europe and North
America, with other parts of the world
catching up fast.
TP: How long have you
been working on this?
Tom van Vuren: In 2002 we began using
satnav data to find out how fast vehicles
were travelling on key sections of the UK
highway network at different times of day
and the average journey times between
fixed points. Over the last decade the
volume of GPS data has increased
threefold and continues to grow.
In parallel we have expanded the range
of information we can extract from GPS
data which now includes the proportion
of vehicles turning on or off a route at
junctions and the origin and destination
of journeys incorporating specific
sections of highway.
TP: What specific experience have
you had using this methodology?
Tom van Vuren: In 2011 Transport for
London (TfL) commissioned us to plot
travel patterns in east London in order to
improve its understanding of river
crossing movements which can be hard
to capture in traditional surveys.
Following the success of this project, TfL
asked us to provide information on light
commercial vehicles.
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Ellman’s eye rests on transport
She quizzes the most powerful figures in transportation and casts a critical eye over
the work of Government. Mike Walter meets transport’s leading lady Louise Ellman.
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Louise Ellman inside Portcullis House, Westminster, which plays host to Committee hearings
Committee catches the public mood
One issue discussed by the Transport
Select Committee which certainly caught
the public mood was about the rising cost
of motor insurance premiums.
“When we first inquired into that the
subject wasn’t discussed very much apart
from our constituents who complained
about the size of their premiums,” Louise
Ellman says. “After we stepped in there
was a massive public reaction, so we did a
second report and it seemed to unleash
something very big. The former Justice
Secretary Jack Straw got involved and
Government was moved to take action. The
issue is ongoing, changes are coming
about and we are still following it up.”
f you are called you should come;
otherwise you may be summoned”
declares Louise Ellman, arguably the
most authoritative figure in transport
today. Ms Ellman chairs the House of
Commons’ Transport Select Committee
which grills senior figures running the
country’s roads, railways and airports and
calls them to account on matters of
public and Parliamentary interest.
The MP for Liverpool Riverside granted
Transportation Professional an interview
in September to explain the role of the
Committee and discuss major issues
facing the sector.
Ms Ellman and her 10 cross party
colleagues on the Transport Select
Committee scrutinise the work of the
Department for Transport and other
public bodies. Committee decides on
issues it would like to investigate, calls
people forward for questioning or to give
evidence, publishes reports and makes
recommendations to Government.
Inquiries held by the Committee this
year include a look at low carbon
vehicles, road
Louise Ellman on
freight,
the role of learned
transport
societies such as CIHT:
planning for
“They play a valuable
the Olympics
role by sending us very
and rail. The
good evidence on topics
Committee
we are dealing with.”
concentrates
not just on major headline grabbing
topics such as High Speed 2 and
expansion of airport capacity but also
deals with other less controversial
transport issues including surface access
to ports and local bus services. Some of
these subjects, Ms Ellman notes, “get very
little attention elsewhere but it is
important they are addressed”.
“We publish a variety of reports and try
to go right across the transport sector,”
she says. “Sometimes our work is about
flagging up an issue that is being ignored
and other times it is about influencing
Government policy. But the results are
not always immediate.”
The Committee is, Ms Ellman says,
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credit for changing the course of national
policy she says is in improving
preparations for winter highways
maintenance. “When we first started
looking at the subject there was very
little planning going on. Salt was running
out and local authorities were not
“genuinely independent of Government
keeping stocks. But winter planning is a
and other political parties”. She herself is a lot better now.”
Labour MP but operates completely
And the work of all Select Committees
separately from the party’s transport
including Transport is now being brought
team. “Members of a Select Committee
to the greater attention of Members of
concentrate on the issues in hand. There
Parliament. A measure was passed earlier
are plenty of other places where members
this year allowing committee
can make general statements about
representatives to announce the subjects
Government or the Opposition, such as in
of forthcoming inquiries to the House of
the Chamber.”
Commons and take questions from the
When politically contentious issues are
Chamber. “There was a feeling in
discussed by Committee it can sometimes
Parliament that the work of Select
be hard to remain impartial she says, “but
Committees should have more
on the whole we do.
prominence,” Ms Ellman
Louise Ellman on subjects to
We work in a cross
says. “I was able to
look out for in transport in the
party way and listen
announce a High Speed
coming months: “Future of the
to everybody.
Rail inquiry in this way
railways, an aviation inquiry,
Everyone can have
and I found it to be very
hub airports and sea ports.”
their say.” She adds
useful. It means that a lot
that if a Select Committee is working
more people are aware of our inquiries
effectively “you shouldn’t be able to
and greater numbers will come and give
tell which party any of our members
us evidence. And the success of our
represent”.
inquiries rest on the strength of the
Committee hearings can be polite and
evidence we get.”
inquisitive in tone, such as one attended
Members of the public are invited to
by this magazine on the subject of
contact the Committee if they feel an
transport and the Olympics in the
issue should be addressed and Ms Ellman
summer. Or they can be rather more
makes good use of the internet channel
robust. Ms Ellman and her colleagues
YouTube to announce the terms of
heard from rail bosses Sir Richard
forthcoming inquiries.
Branson and Tim O’Toole in September
“When many people think of
during a heated exchange about the
Parliament they think of Prime Minister’s
future of the West Coast Mainline
Questions or contentious debates but
franchise. “It depends on the issue being
miss the vitally important work that goes
discussed,” she says. “Sometimes a
on in committees. We are hoping to widen
hearing is about getting information or a
the understanding of what we do.”
better understanding of an issue. And at
Ms Ellman agrees that transport is a
other times it can be much more
subject that appears to be growing in
challenging, especially when we try to grill stature for the Government and society as
someone and make them accountable.”
a whole. “We have moved away from the
One area where Committee can take
days when no one recognised transport
unless there had been a disaster,” she
says. “Now Government has identified
transport investment as a way to help
boost the economy and its profile today is
certainly higher. The fact that Government
recognises how important infrastructure
investment is to the economy is, in a small
part, down to the work of our
Committee.”
Other big issues for transport currently
include road safety and the sector’s role in
shaping regional economies, she says. “On
Ms Ellman chairing a Committee hearing (BBC)
Parliament
Louise Ellman on the need to reduce
transport emissions: “It is not realistic to
build policy based on people travelling
less. Businesses should be encouraged to
reduce vehicle emissions and more trains
should be electrified.”
Louise Ellman on her role as Committee
chair: “I took over from Gwyneth
Dunwoody who was a strong character
who taught me a lot. I am appointed
for this Parliament and enjoy my work
very much.”
the regional issue the Committee has
started to make a difference, not so much
in policy but in awareness. There is an
imbalance in transport investment
focused on London and the South East
and we are trying to draw attention to
that.” Schemes like the ‘Northern Hub’ rail
improvement package help with this aim,
she adds, “but I wonder if some of the
investment could be delivered more
quickly than planned”.
As for road construction Ms Ellman
acknowledges that it has taken a back seat
in the UK in recent times and has been
seen as undesirable. “But in reality all
transport modes are required,” she says.
“There is a need for new building in part
as well as proper maintenance of
highways, more planned rather than
emergency road repairs and closer
working with utility companies.”
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UKRLG
UK Roads Liaison Group
CIHT, 119 Britannia Walk
London N1 7JE
[email protected], www.ciht.org.uk
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UKRLG Chairman: John Dowie
UKRLG Board Chairmen
Roads: Andrew Murray
Lighting: Dana Skelley
Bridges: Mike Winter
Network Management:
Derek Turner
Senior Policy Officer
Justin Ward
email: [email protected]
tel: 0207 336 1584
RLG update
● The UK Bridges Board published
‘Guidance on the design,
assessment and strengthening of
masonry parapets on highway
structures’. Masonry parapets are
designed to provide protection for
road users. This guidance document
is designed to bring up to date
previous advice on the design,
assessment and strengthening of
masonry parapets, drawing together
guidance previously available in BS
6779:1999 Part 4 and in research
papers, and bringing the
terminology used in line with that
used in BS EN 1317-2:1998 and BS
EN 1996-1-1:2005
● The UK Lighting Board has
recently published a lighting policy
framework to assist lighting
authorities in formulating a formal
lighting Policy for the first time, or
when revising an existing policy. The
advice is that a policy document
should be a high level, non
technical statement of the
authorities overall objectives for the
street lighting service. The policy
may then be supplemented by other
more technical documents relating
to lighting standards, operational
standards and lifecycle planning.
The framework is available as a free
download from the UKRLG website
and was drafted to complement the
‘Guide to development of lighting
policy (TR24)’ available from the
Institution of Lighting Professionals.
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Training the winter
decision makers
No formal training and national accreditation for winter service decision makers currently
exists but a newly developed course is expected to go live in winter 2013-14.
Individuals responsible for the operational decisions made
during winter will soon benefit from a nationally
recognised accredited training course due to be launched
in 2013. The course will improve knowledge and awareness
and promote the making of better decisions. A spin-off
from accreditation will be that holding this could help a
decision maker’s evidence in court when defending an
authority’s actions following a road accident during winter.
Decision maker training has been perceived of late as
increasingly important. At the UK Roads Board’s request
the accreditation scheme has been brought forward for
early completion in the National Winter Service Research
Group’s (NWSRG) amended business plan. Core
competencies for the training have been developed by Tony
Bemrose (Norfolk County Council) working with Chris
Cranson (Devon County Council) in their capacity as
steering group members on the NWSRG.
Current training for decision makers relies on job
shadowing and local training but with experienced winter
practitioners leaving the profession these methods can no
longer be relied upon. Furthermore, according to NWSRG
steering group member Adrian Runacres, authorities have
experienced difficulties recruiting winter decision makers.
The new training and accreditation scheme hopes to
address these two issues.
Discussions are being held with the Institution of
Highway Engineers (IHE) about holding a national register
of accredited winter decision makers and also accrediting
training companies or individuals that deliver the training.
The scheme will include assessment in the core
competencies and then demonstration of competence in
decision making over a winter period.
The current proposal is that IHE will fast track
applications from established practitioners who can
demonstrate substantial experience, permitting them to
Accreditation should attract new personnel
become trainers/mentors for the course. The eight core
competencies are expected to be completed in a minimum
of four days (see table below).
Winter service decision maker competency
standards:
1. Highway law & policy
2. Winter record keeping
3. Road meteorology
4. Decision making
5. Monitoring weather overnight
6. Using plant (including snow and calibration)
7. Snow response
8. Winter communication (including media management)
A good starting place for anyone wanting an overview
of winter service training issues is the training part of
‘Well-maintained highways (WMH)’ Section 13 as this has
been the basis from which the course content was
developed. The section was updated in November 2011
following the publication of David Quarmby's winter
resilience report that highlighted concerns around training
for winter service operations.
As there are already City & Guilds qualifications for
winter service drivers and duty supervisors, a training
course for the decision maker means that all the key
people involved with winter service operations that require
training will soon be able to receive it.
Tony and Chris drew on personal experience to develop
the course competencies. Both have been involved in
winter decision making and winter policy for many years
with their respective authorities. Tony’s authority is
responsible for the decision to treat 3200km of road within
three hours across the whole of Norfolk. Last year the
county council made the decision to go out 74 times; and
has averaged 97 winter outings over the last five year.
A core element to the course, not surprisingly, is focused
on decision making. The course will refer to ‘WMH Winter
Service’ Appendix H decision matrix and treatments
options and will also focus on the effect of forecast
confidence on decisions. Tony says: “Every time I take the
decision to go we send out 57 drivers, with six loader
drivers also involved, four duty supervisors, 300t of salt,
the fuel....what happens if my decision is a wrong one?”.
A ballpark figure for each operation is around £40,000.
Wrong decisions can be made just because someone did
not interpret the weather forecast information correctly. In
constrained economic times authorities just cannot afford
to make the wrong decisions.
“In severe weather conditions on the one hand the
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Making the decision to send out the snow ploughs is a big responsibility when each operation can cost £40,000
police will be advising people not to drive and on
the other we are sending our drivers out into very
difficult conditions,” Tony says. At the back of a
decision maker’s mind must be highway law and
policy. Consideration will be given to the Highways
Act 1980, an authority’s local policies and
procedures and codes of practice such as ‘Wellmaintained highways’. Also they need to be mindful
of the Police Road Death Investigation Manual, “an
extremely good read,” according to Tony; this helps
a decision maker understand what the police will do
if there is a death on the highway.
This is particularly important if there is a
suggestion that the fatality might be the result of
the authority’s actions and therefore has
implications under the Corporate Manslaughter &
Corporate Homicide Act. The course will also refer to
the past court case of Goodes v East Sussex County
Council that considered if the authority acted
correctly in regards to its winter service obligations.
Winter record keeping is very important for any
winter service decision maker and can also be of
particular importance in regard to insurance claims
or legal defence. If an accident occurs and a case
goes to court, for example, the defence would be
reliant on the records available. Decision makers
also need to understand the equipment they have at
their disposal – a key component of a winter
operation and a reason for one of the modules from
the course focusing on using plant.
Norfolk salts all its main roads and at least one
road that connects each village to the treated
network (in all the county pre-salts 34% of its
network). Making the public aware of the winter
route hierarchy and when treatments will take place
is therefore an important component of its winter
communications strategy. With an above national
average number of retirees in Norfolk, the radio may
be more appropriate for this group than the use of
social media.
Developing a snow/severe weather response is
vital and, according to Tony, is crucial in towns such
as Wells-next-the-Sea on the north Norfolk coast
where help and assistance from local towns and
parish councils plus the provision of grit bins allows
for good resilience planning and self help strategies.
Understanding weather will form part of any
training scheme for winter decision makers. There
are two course components on this: Road
meteorology and monitoring weather overnight. As
Tony explains: “If someone comes away from the
training and understands climatic zones better they
might be able to use resources and budgets more
effectively.” Justin Ward
Peer Assist Review launches of highway authority winter service delivery
The purpose of the peer review service is to provide
assistance to English highway authorities currently
struggling to achieve the delivery of an effective and
modern winter service. The review will identify the
specific and general barriers which have prevented
these authorities from following best practice guidance.
In February 2012 the UK Roads Board signed
off its support for the NWSRG to offer a Peer Assist
Review service to local highway authorities covering
their winter operations. Planning since then has
been under way to develop an at-cost service
(expected to be around £4000) for a such a review.
Peer Assist Review will be undertaken by a team
consisting of highly experienced and well respected
former local authority winter service engineers,
managed and guided by a risk management specialist
with extensive experience of the review process. The
process will lead to the production of a
‘Recommendations Report’ which will be technically
reviewed and approved before submission by nationally
recognised NWSRG experts.
Adrian Runacres, a steering group member involved
with the development of the service said: “What I love
about the NWSRG is its amount of expertise available,
from practitioners to scientists and manufacturers.
Once we understand the detailed issues from the Peer
Assist Reveiw we can tap into a huge amount of
expertise from the steering group members and provide
this to the authority in the ‘Recommendations Report’.”
To register your interest in either scheme please
contact Adrian Runacres [email protected] and highlight
in the subject field ‘Decision-maker training’ or ‘Peer-topeer winter service review’.
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Technical Paper
November 2 0 1 2
Making rural roads safer by
using ‘passively safe’ furniture
Passively safe street furniture can significantly reduce the number of motorists killed or seriously
injured on rural roads, writes highway engineer David Milne.
Introduction
Road deaths rose by 3% in 2010 to stand
at 1901 – the first annual increase for 17
years. Around half of these deaths took
place on rural roads with a 60MPH
speed limit.
Rural roads are about seven times more
dangerous than motorways for each
kilometre travelled. Many of these rural
road deaths are from vehicles hitting
unyielding roadside objects in single
vehicle accidents.
The Labour Government introduced a
road casualty target in the year 2000 to
reduce KSI (killed and serious injuries)
casualties by 40% over 10 years. Road
deaths were successfully reduced by 45%
between 2000 and 2010.
The current Government has eschewed
new safety targets and this may explain
the recent reversal of the downward
accident trend.
The Government is now considering
giving powers to local highway authorities
to selectively reduce rural speed limits
from 60MPH to 40MPH.
A different approach for serious
accident reduction is to make the
surrounding road environment more
forgiving to errant vehicles. This so called
‘passively safe’ street furniture and safety
barriers (with energy absorbing end
terminals rather than ramped ends)
could do much to make our busier rural
roads much safer for vehicles that run off
the highway.
Trunk roads have very successfully
made provision for errant vehicles leaving
the road at speed by:
a) guarding hazards such as bridge
abutments and high embankments
with safety barrier
b) using passively safe street furniture
tested to EN 12767 in the form of
signposts and lighting columns
c) locating trees away from the edge of
the road
1. A 140mm diameter FSP traffic signal pole during an impact by a Citroen Saxo at 100km/h
Benefits of passively safe street furniture
Some local highway authorities now
selectively specify passively safe street
furniture on their highways but many
remain to be convinced. When a driver
leaves a rural road at speed they are
blamed for the consequences and the
highway authority rarely shares any
responsibility for the accident.
In Sweden, its government tries hard to
‘design out’ serious injury accident
situations or otherwise shield drivers from
the disastrous consequence of their errors.
As a result Sweden has reduced the
number of deaths and serious injuries by
90% on some single carriageway rural
roads by installing median and verge
barriers. It may come as no surprise that
Sweden has the safest roads in Europe.
Crash demonstration day at MIRA
The virtues of passive safety and barriers
that protect errant motorists were ably
demonstrated at the UK Roads ‘Crash
Demonstration Day’ at MIRA in May.
Almost 400 people attended including
police, road safety auditors and engineers
from highway authorities, consultants,
contractors and the Highways Agency.
Those gathered saw five high speed vehicle
crashes. The crashes were:
1. FSP designed Fibre composite traffic
signal post
A 900kg Citroen Saxo was driven at
100km/h into a 140 mm diameter fibre
composite traffic signal post designed by
FSP. The pole carried a Siemens signal
head and was mounted in a NAL socket
with the NAL Safety Isolation System (SIS).
The SIS isolated the electrical supply to the
pole 200 milliseconds after initial impact.
The photograph shows the pole
flattening during impact, hugely reducing
the bending resistance of the pole and
severity of the impact.
The FSP range of composite plastic
poles for traffic signs and traffic signal
poles are longitudinally reinforced with
carbon fibre giving bending strength and
stiffness but crush relatively easily on
impact making them passively safe.
The FSP poles are classified as NE 3
(Non Energy) products when tested to
EN 12767.
2. Highway Care’s ‘Barrier Guard 800’
Highway Care demonstrated its Barrier
Guard 800 steel barrier with a gate. The
gate was struck by a 1500kg Ford Mondeo
at 80km/h at an angle of 15°. The car can
be seen to have sustained limited damage
in the impact and the gate appeared to be
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Technical Paper
2. Highway Care’s ‘Barrier Guard 800’ showing a Ford Mondeo hitting the barrier gate at 80km/h at an
angle of 15°
in working order following impact
although this could not be demonstrated
due to the uneven nature of the ground
at the test site.
The Barrier Guard 800 system is for
temporary and fully anchored permanent
applications and options include crash
cushions and opening gates. Historically
gaps were left in central reserve barriers
for emergency access but these were
closed off following cross over accidents.
Gates to the same safety standard as
adjacent barrier offer safe emergency
crossovers.
3. SAPA signal pole
3. SAPA traffic signal pole with push button
pedestrian control being hit by a 1300kg Ford
Escort at 100km/h
SAPA also crashed an aluminium traffic
signal pole mounted in a Poletech socket,
equipped with a pedestrian push button
and signal head. A Ford Escort crashed
into the pole at 100km/h. The pedestrian
push button unit can clearly be seen to
stay safely attached to the pole, answering
some concerns about it possibly detaching
and penetrating the vehicle windscreen.
Again damage to the car was relatively
slight with no damage to the passenger
safety compartment of the vehicle.
4. SAPA’s large sign supports
SAPA exhibited its new BSEN 12767 NE3
‘Shored up Sign Post’ structure designed
for larger signs. The central braced leg
frame was impacted by a 1500kg Ford
Mondeo travelling at 100km/h at an angle
of 90° to the structure. This was a more
onerous demonstration, as official tests
require the structure to be impacted at a
20° angle.
Often when this is the case the vehicle
travels between the rear legs and not
through them. The internal NE3
construction in both the front and rear
legs sheared as designed leaving the sign
standing on the four remaining legs. The
car suffered little frontal intrusion in the
impact with the occupant cabin of the
vehicle being completely undamaged.
5. Delta Bloc concrete barrier
Delta Bloc showed its DB100 H4a vertical
concrete barrier being hit by a lorry with a
gross vehicle weight of 7.5t.
The lorry hit the barrier at 60km/h at an
angle of 15°. The barrier was almost
undamaged and little displaced. The lorry
was barely damaged and was driven away.
This very high containment concrete
segmental barrier is suitable for both
permanent and temporary locations. If
required any damaged sections of barrier
can be easily removed and replaced post
impact.
Delta Bloc markets a range of precast
concrete barriers to EN 1317 across
Europe.
Concrete barriers are increasingly
favoured on trunk roads as they are robust,
need little maintenance and are proving to
be very safe in service.
Also on display at the crash day
Passively safe signposts, passively safe
lighting columns, plastic bollards from
several manufacturers, sockets for
founding traffic signal poles and lighting
columns, LED powered internally
illuminated signs, a large portable variable
message sign mounted on a trailer with
solar panels and batteries, a lorry mounted
4. SAPA’s new passively safe large sign support
system being hit by a Ford Mondeo at 100km/h
(the sign plate was 4.5m wide, 7.5m high)
crash attenuator, crash cushions,
terminals and barrier systems.
Video clips of all the crash tests can be
viewed at www.ukroads.org/passivesafety
Conclusion
The merits of passively safe crash barriers
and passively safe street furniture were
convincingly demonstrated on the day. I
hope that the use of such products on the
local rural road network becomes more
prevalent especially on 60MPH non trunk
A roads as their use can make these roads
significantly safer.
Looking forwards to 2014
Anybody with a professional interest in
highways or road safety should attend a
UK Roads crash day. The next event will
take place over two days in 2014 in
association with Traffex.
Acknowledgements
This paper was produced and peer
reviewed on behalf of the CIHT Road
Safety Panel.
David Milne runs a
consultancy promoting
the benefits of passive
safety and produced
and edited ‘Designing
Safer Roadsides, a
handbook for Highway
Engineers’.
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CIHT News
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Make road safety high priority
Institution tells Government
CIHT is calling on Government to
make sure tackling death and
serious injury on the roads remains
a top priority.
The move comes as official
figures released by Department for
Transport in September show a three
percent rise in the number of
people killed on the roads since
2010 and a two percent increase
in serious injuries.
“CIHT calls on Government to
show leadership in highway
management to ensure that casualty
prevention remains a high priority in
all authorities,” the Institution said.
The Institution is worried that a
reduction in the number of road
safety professionals is one of the
causes of the increase in casualties.
“CIHT is concerned that the loss
of skilled road safety professionals in
both public and private sectors has
contributed to the reduced focus on
safety,” it said.
In all there were 1901 fatalities
on roads in Great Britain last year,
up by 51 from 1850 the year before.
Deaths of pedestrians and car
occupants increased by 12% and
6% respectively. Number of serious
injuries rose from 22,660 to 23,122.
Fatalities among motorcyclists and
cyclists did fall however.
CIHT’s concern was echoed by the
Institute of Advanced Motorists. Its
director of policy and research Neil
Greig said: “Britain has been at the
top of the world road safety league
but a combination of public
spending cuts and lack of central
targets may be putting this in
jeopardy.”
Driving while over the legal
alcohol limit was the cause of nearly
10,000 road accidents and the
number of people killed by drink
driving rose by 12% in the last
year. “This is absolutely shocking,”
Mr Greig said. “Next year we must
see a drink driving education
campaign backed up with
enforcement to put an end to these
unnecessary deaths.”
The most frequently reported
contributory factor to road collisions
was ‘failure to look properly’,
attributed as the cause of 42%
of accidents reported to the police
in 2011.
North East Branch launches 60th anniversary celebrations
A joint seminar and evening dinner
in September with Newcastle
University’s Transport Operations
Research Group (TORG) marked the
start of the North Eastern Branch
celebrations marking the Branch’s
formation on 19 September 1952.
TORG was also celebrating the 40th
anniversary of its own formation so it
was a joint celebration of 100 years
of transport excellence in the north
east, writes Roger Elphick.
The seminar at Newcastle
University was chaired by CIHT
President David Anderson. North
Eastern Branch chair John Jeffrey
reviewed 60 years of transport
infrastructure in the North East and
highlighted the exhibition that the
Branch has compiled outlining the
important transportation
developments during each decade.
This will be going on public
display throughout the region and a
comprehensive e-book will soon be
available on the CIHT website,
John said.
Department for Transport
Permanent Secretary Philip Rutnam
gave a speech highlighting the need
for resilient infrastructure and said
transport was now high on the
political agenda as a prerequisite to
economic recovery.
He emphasised the need for a
committed consistency of approach
together with the easing of
constraints and more ingenious
solutions. He talked of the impending
devolution of funding for transport
schemes to the Local Enterprise
Partnerships. And he stressed the
need for the development of good
governance structures and capability
within the new Local Transport
Boards (see News) together with the
ability to undertake adequate
analysis and appropriate
prioritisation of regional transport
schemes.
CIHT Chief Executive Sue Percy
then stressed the need for better
knowledge transfer from academia to
practice and reiterated the call in the
Institution’s Manifesto for Transport
Infrastructure for a 20 year strategy
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for transport infrastructure across the
UK. The CIHT Infrastructure Funding
Delivery report had also been well
received she said, and had influenced
thinking regarding the future
financing of projects.
There was also a need she said, to
embrace technology in developments
such as smart phones, journey
planning and smart ticketing and for
better integration with environment,
land use planning, education, health,
wealth and climate change issues.
Sue also emphasised that the
Institution is concerned about future
skills shortages, recruitment and
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education and training together with
the decline in engineering students.
Professor of ITS and director of
TORG Phil Blythe opened
proceedings by giving a retrospective
view of the achievements of TORG
and emphasising the international
reputation for world leading and
diverse transport research that it had
undertaken. And a professor of
transport and the environment at
TORG drew attention to the
importance of the ongoing
development of data capture and
analysis techniques in researching the
links between transport and health.
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7 Linden Close, Tunbridge Wells,
Kent TN4 8HH
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CIHT News
East Midland wins Locan Cup yet again
East Midland Branch fought off a
strong challenge from North
Western to win this year’s Locan
Cup for the second year running.
The winner's score of 121 points
was three points better than the
runners up, with Yorkshire &
Humberside a further point
behind in third.
The East Midland winning team
was captained by Mike Wherrett
and included John Henry, Bill
Douglas, Nikki Morris, Bill Wadrup,
Andrew Kelsey, Ian Hodgkin and
Andy Turner. The players were
presented with the Locan Cup by
CIHT President David Anderson.
The Locan Cup is the Institution’s
annual national golf competition
and was hosted this year by North
Western Branch on 9 and 10
September at Portal Golf Club in
Cheshire. Teams from 13 branches
competed for the trophy.
The prize for the best pair score
went to Richard Fuller and Stuart
Brock from Yorkshire & Humberside
with an excellent 42 points. The
prize for the longest drive was won
by Nikki Morris and the prize for
nearest the pin was won by Bill
Guest of North Western Branch.
Six ladies took part in a separate
ladies competition, which was held
on the same course. A silver plate
was won by Margaret Rickerby of
North Western Branch with 36
points, seven points better than
second place Stephne Brock of
Yorkshire & Humberside Branch.
East Midland's winning captain
Mike Wherrett paid tribute to all
the staff at Portal golf club for the
great facilities and service and for
the course, which was in a excellent
condition. Mike also thanked North
Western Branch and the Locan Cup
Committee for all their hard work
that resulted in another very
successful event.
There were over 120 people at an
excellent reception and dinner on
the Sunday evening prior to the
competition when President David
Anderson spoke of his hopes for the
future. Guests were entertained
during the evening by a magician.
From left to right: Locan Cup Committee Chairman Chris Bulman, Bill Wadrup, Andrew Kelsey, CIHT President David
Anderson, John Henry, Mike Wherrett, Nikki Morris, Bill Douglas, Andy Turner and Ian Hodgkin
Locan Cup Committee Chairman,
Chris Bulman said: “Many thanks
are due to Peter Blair, the North
Western Branch golf organiser and
the rest of the group including
Barry Heaps and Richard Manock
for the excellent event."
On behalf of the organising
committee, Chris Bulman also
thanked main sponsors Sky High Count on Us, WYG and Nynas and
other sponsors Costain, Atkins and
Bardon Construction for their
support in helping to make the
event such a success.
Chris Bulman announced that
next year’s event is to be hosted
by the South West Branch at
St Mellion Golf Club in Cornwall
on 8 and 9 September.
For more information CIHT
members should contact Derek
Dudley, Locan Cup Committee
Secretary on 07770 966262 or by
email [email protected]
Margaret Rickerby from the North Western Branch being presented a silver plate
Sponsored by:
CIHT President David Anderson with Richard Fuller (left) and Stuart Brock
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Successful summer visit was a racing certainty
Thames & Chilterns Branch went on a visit to
Adlestrop Stables in the Cotswolds. Branch
chairman Keith Rogers reports on the day.
After a largely soggy summer, the
good weather forecast for our visit
was to be a welcome break from the
grey gloomy skies we all had become
used to over the past months.
Meeting at 8am outside the
Adlestrop Village Hall meant it was
an early start for those of us who
gave up our usual Saturday morning
snooze in exchange for a morning on
the gallops with the racehorse
trainer, Richard Phillips.
With the mists rising either side of
the A44 from Oxford en route to our
destination, it was the words of the
poem ‘In Autumn’ by John Keats
that came to mind: ‘Seasons of mists
and mellow fruitfulness, Close
bosom-friend of the maturing
sun…….’. Adlestrop itself is famous for
another poem by Edward Thomas.
However the rail station that inspired
his poem by the same name closed
to passenger traffic in 1966 but the
station plaque remains behind a
bench in the village just before
you get to the village hall and
Adlestrop Stables.
We were greeted by Richard
Phillips who took us to the paddock
where the ‘first lot’ (horses that had
worked that morning before we
had arrived) were having the pick
of the grass set against the early
morning sun.
We then toured the main yard and
were given a running commentary
from the trainer not only on each
horse but also of the history of
racehorses in general, their physical
make up and attributes. Some of the
horses were using the horsewalker
(designed on the principles of and
similar in appearance to an enclosed
playground roundabout) to
strengthen their muscles. Richard
likened his role as trainer to that of
head teacher, the work riders as
teachers and the horses as pupils.
We then made our way up to the
gallops to watch ‘second lot’. Richard
explained that the six furlong
Eurotrack gallop was constructed in
July 2002 using the same principles
as road construction. As with any
construction good drainage is
New UK First Delegate to
the World Road Association
Transport Scotland director of trunk
road and bus operations Roy
Brannen has become the new
UK First Delegate to the World
Road Association, taking over from
Jim Barton.
First Delegates are selected
because of the leadership they have
demonstrated in the road and
transport industry in their country.
Roy formally took over at the
association’s council meeting in
Lucerne. The prominent position of
First Delegate will provide him with
the opportunity to draw on the
activities and outputs of the
association to enhance the
development of the road and
transport sector in the UK. The First
Delegate position requires ministerial
approval and Keith Brown, Minister
Roy Brannen
for Transport and Veterans for the
Scottish Government, has approved
Roy’s appointment.
In his new role as First Delegate,
Roy will act as the official link
between the Government and the
association and as the head of the
delegation of the country to the
WRA Council.
Thames & Chilterns Branch on a recent visit to the Adlestrop Stables
essential as is the use of a reputable
contractor. The gallop is situated on
a gradual incline and the finished
surface made of silica sand, rubber,
fibre and Vaseline is maintained
regularly through harrowing.
After second lot it was back to the
stables for a glass of ‘fizz’ in the
owners’ lounge (converted stable)
and then back up the gallops for
‘third lot’. We further learnt more of
the methods and techniques used in
training horses and also gained an
insight into the use and role of
jockeys. On that note we believe that
we may have seen a jockey of the
future in action, Kieran Shoemark, a
work rider who that day was leaving
Adlestrop to join a larger stable as
an apprentice to Andrew Balding
(brother of the media presenter
Clare) at Kingsclere in Hampshire.
No-one really knew quite what to
expect when signing up for this
‘Morning on the Gallops’ trip but
from feedback it was clear a
thoroughly enjoyable time was had
by all. The good weather coupled
with the beautiful countryside and
tranquil surroundings – together
with the anecdotal humour of
Richard Phillips – were all
additional bonuses. Many thanks go
to Mr Phillips and staff at Adlestrop
Stables for making us all feel so
welcome.
Help us find new members
and get money off your own fee
CIHT is kick starting the
Presidential Year with a new
campaign that aspires to attract
500 new members to the
Institution.
The first mini campaign to be
launched as part of this new CIHT
500 initiative is the 'Member Get
Member’ campaign to encourage
the Institution’s own membership
to help recruit new blood. As a
thank you CIHT will give those
who recruit three new people or
more a generous discount off
their own membership fee.
A new CIHT 500 section has
been created at
www.ciht.org.uk/CIHT500 to
provide support to those who are
keen to get involved and recruit
new members. The area includes
full details of the campaign and
handy tips and resources to help
with recruitment.
For the Member get Member
Campaign visit
www.ciht.org.uk/MGM or you can
email the Membership Team for
more information at
[email protected]
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LIVERPOOL CENTRE FOR MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY (LCMT)
12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS,
PAVEMENT ENGINEERING AND INFRASTRUCTURE
CALL FOR PAPERS & REGISTRATIONS
WEDNESDAY 27 - THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2013, LIVERPOOL, UK
LJMU 2013 Conference
The School of the Built Environment at Liverpool John Moores University in
association with our industrial partners and professional institutions is hosting
its 12th Annual International Conference addressing: sustainable; construction
materials, road construction and maintenance, airport pavements, concrete
pavements, procurement, design, testing, developments in bitumen and asphalt
materials, waste management, recycled or manufactured aggregates, carbon impact,
road surface treatments and infrastructure ; design, repair and maintenance.
It is aimed at stakeholders with specific interest in the development and
management of sustainable infrastructure, environmental protection and energy
reduction, developments in concrete and asphalt pavement technology, aggregate
recycling initiatives, infrastructure, airport and highways design and maintenance.
The conference will be of interest to; policy advisors, environmental regulators,
infrastructure clients, specifiers, planners, designers, local authorities, highway
related consultants and designers, materials suppliers, construction companies,
contractors and educational institutions.
Supported by: Transport Scotland, South Gloucestershire CC, Lafarge Aggregates,
RSTA, Total Bitumen, Stirling Lloyd, Findlay Irvine, The Chartered Institution of
Highways and Transportation, The Institution of Asphalt Technology, The Institution
of Civil Engineers Merseyside Branch, WRAP, University of Nottingham
For more information on the conference programme, submissions of papers,
exhibition, registration to attend the conference and or to reserve a place, please
visit our website: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/BLT/BEST/LCMT/index.htm or contact the
conference Director Professor Hassan Al Nageim. Email: [email protected] or
Shakir Al-Busaltan, email: [email protected], Tel: +44 (0) 151 231 2811.
The conference is always well attended with 100+ delegates and typically 15+
Exhibitors from UK and overseas. Due to limited spaces, please complete your
registration as soon as possible by visiting our website.
The following key note speakers are confirmed for
Day 1 of the LJMU 2013 conference:
1. Dougie Millar, Transport Scotland, UK
New Surfacing Specification for Scotland – Latest developments
2. Owen Jenkins, South Gloucestershire CC, UK
Asset Management - the South Gloucestershire Experience
3. Mike Harper, Stirling Lloyd, UK
Crack & Joint Repair Systems
4. John Barritt, WRAP, UK
The Road to Construction Resource Efficiency
5. Gary Schofield, Total Bitumen, UK
Developments in Surface Dressing – the economic solution
6. Campbell Waddell, Findlay Irvine, UK
Developments in Skid Resistance Monitoring
7. Nick Thom, University of Nottingham, UK
Research into pothole formation
8. Prof. Hassan Al Nageim, LJMU, UK
Cold Asphalt for road reinstatements, Road and Highways:
New Developments
9. Monower Sadique, LJMU, UK
New cementitious materials for construction with zero CO2 emission
A preliminary conference programme for Day 1 and Day 2 will be made available
on the conference website: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/BLT/BEST/LCMT/index.htm
as soon as we receive all abstracts and papers.
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THE CHARTERED
INSTITUTION OF HIGHWAYS
& TRANSPORTATION
Reducing Road and Street Works Duration
Road Plate, Rapid Cure and Temporary Backfill Technologies
Free Evening Dissemination Seminar & Webinar
Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 4pm - 7pm
Space@119
The Chartered Institution of
Highways & Transportation
119 Britannia Walk
London, N1 7JE
This early evening seminar will disseminate the results of a research project jointly
commissioned by Transport for London and the Department for Transport, and aimed at
providing highway maintenance and utility companies with advice on how to reduce congestion
at road works through the use of technology; such as road plates, rapid cure materials and
temporary backfill.
This 18-month project has been undertaken by TRL, and has included performance testing of
a range of road plate, rapid cure and temporary backfill materials, as well as a review of other
technologies. It will provide advice and information that will help to reduce the costs of traffic
delays at road works across the UK and also reduce the costs of lane rental charges in London.
The seminar is aimed at highway authorities, utility companies, and contractors who are
involved in the construction and maintenance of roads and of utility services.
For programme and details of
how to book, please visit:
www.ciht.org.uk.
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Events Co-ordinator
CIHT, 119 Britannia Walk,
London N1 7JE
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£115 + VAT pp
Please book early to avoid disappointment,
visit www.ciht.org.uk to download a booking form
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Events
National events – CIHT and others
Maximising growth through
transport: How to gain the
benefits
31 October, Cardiff
UK WRA conference. For information
contact www.ciht.org.uk/en/wra/
events/wra-2012-congress.cfm
Development travel
plans in practice
1 November, Britannia Walk,
London
One day course. For information go to
www.aldercross.com
Driving innovation
at Road Expo 2012
7-8 November, Edinburgh
Includes the Transport Scotland and
SCOTS conference. Topics include
flood reslilience management, road
safety, the Road Maintenance Review,
cycling, climate change and
innovation. For more details visit
www.roadexpo.com
BIM and the transport sector –
how will it affect you
Lecture and webinar
15 November, London, 2-5pm
This workshop will address Building
Information Modelling, commonly
known as BIM, which is the process of
collaborative design using one
coherent system of computer models.
Government has said that BIM will be
required on all major government
projects by 2016. Webinar member
rate is £24, seminar £54. For
enquiries call 020 7336 1570 or
More information at www.ciht.org.uk
For further event listings, visit www.ciht.org.uk
Date for your diary –
Creating child friendly streets
and communities – a series of
workshops
25 October, London
15 November, Liverpool
CIHT and Play England are holding
a series of one day workshops to
help make sure environments are
designed with children in mind.
These will provide practical and
incisive guidance on how to plan
effectively and covers the
consultation and participation
processes as well as tackling
design and technical issues. For
enquiries call 020 7336 1570 or
Seeing is believing
20-22 November, Leicestershire
The UK roads industry event with an
indoor exhibition and an outdoor
demonstration area. For more
information visit www.sib.uk.net
Asphalt 2012 – Innovation in
recession conference
23 November, Warwick
In collaboration with CIHT and TRL.
For more information email
[email protected]
Adept annual conference for
executive members and directors
The route to growth
21-22 November, Manchester
For enquiries call 01829 270530 or
email [email protected] For more
details visit www.aldercross.com
Reducing roads and street
works duration
4 December, London, 4-7pm
This free evening seminar will
disseminate the results of a research
project jointly commissioned by
Transport for London and the
Department for Transport and aimed
at providing highway maintenance
and utility companies with advice on
how to reduce congestion at
roadworks through technology such
as road plates, rapid cure materials
and temporary backfill. For enquiries
contact [email protected] or
call 020 7336 1570.
and money was made. To book for this
free event contact
[email protected]
Greater London Branch
New look traffic signs:
Improving understanding
of enforcement signing
21 November, 6pm
Joint with Southern, South Eastern,
Thames & Chilterns and East Anglia.
To find out more information or to
book your place at the event
contact Ross Corben at
[email protected] or
Geoff Dadd on 0208 318 6187.
Early warning!
CIHT Annual Luncheon 2012
14 December, London
For details go to www.ciht.org.uk
call 020 7336 1570 or email
[email protected]
CIHT Branch events
North Wales Branch
What makes a successful
framework?
25 October, Abergele
One day course, £95. For details call
01829 270530 or www.aldercross.com
Road casualties break the
downward trend. Are official
policies responsible?
31 October, London, 6pm
Thames & Chilterns and East Anglia
To book contact Ross Corben at
Geoff Dadd on 0208 318 6187.
North of Scotland Branch
Annual dinner
2 November, Inverness
6.30pm for 7pm
The annual dinner is being held at the
Drumossie Hotel.
Progress with enabling
elements of the National
Infrastructure Plan
7 November, London
Thames & Chilterns, East Anglia.
To book contact Ross Corben at
Geoff Dadd on 0208 318 6187.
Thames & Chilterns Branch
Innovate and succeed
8 November, Reading, 6pm
Up and Under Group managing
director Andy Fewtrell FCIHT will use
the Menai Bridge as a backdrop to
illustrate how today’s engineers can use
innovation to further their own careers
while enhancing the performance of
their employers and fulfilling the needs
of clients and society.
Andy promises adrenaline filled
examples where problems were solved
North of Scotland Branch
Inverness south west flood relief
channel project
13 November, Inverness, 5.30pm
Speaker Colin Howell of Highland
Council will be explaining the scheme
at Inverness College.
Placemaking and play: creating
places and spaces for the next
generation
14 November, Britannia Walk,
London, 5.30pm
Please note earlier time and change of
venue. Joint with Southern, South
Eastern, Thames & Chilterns and East
Anglia branches. Contact Ross Corben
at [email protected]
or Geoff Dadd on 0208 318 6187.
East Midlands Branch
New routes to delivery – how
might the story be tolled?
27 November, Cambridge
Training and CPD day seminar, £85.
Includes new Tyne & Wear
Crossing, future of the Highways
Agency and electric car regional
infrastructure developments. For further
enquiries contact Bob Tuckwell
[email protected]
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Product & Service Update
Bluesky purchases airborne
mapping system
Aerial
surveying
company Bluesky
has purchased a state of
the art airborne mapping
system
which
includes
LiDAR (Light Detection And
Ranging), a fully integrated
thermal sensor and high
resolution camera.
The LiDAR system uses
aircraft mounted lasers to
accurately map the ground
for transport infrastructure
modelling. The high precision
3D models are ideal for
planning,
consultation
and engineering.
The system also captures
digital images simultaneously
with two other sensors to provide a wealth of coincident
information for their area of
interest to give a complete
survey solution and substantial acquisition savings.
Mayrise software
helps West Berkshire
get mobile
Mayrise Systems
Bluesky
01530 518 518
www.bluesky-world.com
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www.mayrise.co.uk
Mobile street works management software from
Mayrise Systems is helping West Berkshire Council
achieve savings through improved working
practices. Using rugged all-in-one handheld
computers from Pidion, street works inspectors
can work independently in the field, retrieve up to
date street works information, complete and file
inspection reports and access detailed street level
mapping.
The Mayrise powered devices will also help the
Council comply with new legislation known as
EtoN 6, when it is introduced next year.
“Prior to the introduction of the Mayrise mobile
system the first port of call each day for our
street works inspectors was the office,” said West
Berkshire Council’s principal engineer for street
works Neil Ainsworth. “Here they would collect
their daily schedule together with blank inspection
reports and possibly some pre-printed maps. Now
all this information is available at any time at the
touch of a button.”
Using the Mayrise centralised system and
integrated mobile modules street works inspectors
working in the field have up to the minute access
to the same information as office based colleagues.
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Yotta DCL has completed
an asset inventory survey of
1047km of highway network
managed by the South Wales
Trunk Road Agent (SWTRA)
on behalf of the Welsh Government.
Surveyors used Yotta DCL’s
high tech video surveying
vehicle to capture a wide
range of highway assets in
only eight days using digital
cameras, providing SWTRA
with accurate data and saving them time and money.
A manual survey of the
network would normally
have been programmed over
a five year period. But this
was impractical for SWTRA
as by the time all of the data
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it would have been out of
date. The survey identified
34,723 gullies, 15,422 road
signs, 850km of safety fence,
2898km of longitudinal road
markings and 150km of footways.
“Yotta DCL’s asset inventory surveying technique is
excellent,” said SWTRA asset condition manager Chris
Nelson. “It provides accurate,
reliable data in a very short
time and gives us a clear view
of the extent and location of
our assets enabling us to develop our asset management
planning.”
Yotta DCL
Contact: Nick Smee
0845 459 6882
[email protected]
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2012 Annual Seminar
Conference Centre, Hilton Hotel, Newport
Thursday 15th November 2012
Multi Modal Transportation A Way Forward?
This one-day conference will provide delegates with an insight into the
issues that are being faced by all parties involved with the provision and
running of public transport and with the construction and maintenance
of the traffic & transportation networks.
This conference will look at the way forward for both the Institution and
Government in Wales, with keynote speeches from both the Institution
and the Welsh Government. The programme will then give you a chance
to put your views forward during a breakout session. This will then
be followed by presentations by leading UK experts on the modes of
Transportation, Highways, and Cycling/Walking alternatives.
This Year’s Seminar takes a closer look at these subjects:
Multi Modal Transportation: the Institution and Welsh Government
Views · Rail Network · Road Network · Airports · Cycling and
Walking Networks · International Best Practice · Delegate Breakout
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