Knowledge Compendium

For pre-2009 projects, please see our index of archived project pages.

Lat­est News Items

Fea­tured Projects

3D tech­nol­ogy helps com­plete repair work to fire-damaged M1 Deans Brook Viaduct

Date: 08/03/2012

Nine months after a severe blaze tem­porar­ily closed the Deans Brook Viaduct, which car­ries the M1 over part of north Lon­don; repair work on the struc­ture and in the sur­round­ing area is complete.

Long term trends in emis­sions and air pol­lu­tion (2007–2010)

Portfolio(s): 08 Sup­port­ing high qual­ity envi­ron­ment and social per­for­mance

Project Sta­tus: Completed

The main objec­tive of this project is to deter­mine whether changes to emis­sion stan­dards from 1992 to the present day have had a cor­re­spond­ing effect on road­side air quality.

Wel­come to the Knowl­edge Compendium

The High­ways Agency Knowl­edge Com­pendium was launched fol­low­ing a review of exist­ing pro­gramme processes and replaces the Research Com­pendium. It is designed to help you eas­ily nav­i­gate through the projects and link research to out­comes, and to pro­vide detail on the new four year Research Strat­egy and two year Knowl­edge Pro­gramme. In addi­tion you will find infor­ma­tion regard­ing the roles of the groups deliv­er­ing the programme.

The main enhance­ments include:

  • a new struc­ture to accom­mo­date and pro­mote the new Knowl­edge Programme
  • new pages detail­ing the Knowl­edge Pro­gramme and Research Strategy
  • top­ics list to eas­ily find research by topic
  • news sto­ries
  • fea­tured projects

The new four year Research Strat­egy, 2010–2014, iden­ti­fies the Agency’s oper­a­tional and busi­ness needs. The two year Knowl­edge Pro­gramme, devel­oped from the Research Strat­egy, com­prises of cur­rently 15 port­fo­lios each with stated out­puts and out­comes, that con­tain projects designed to ful­fil the par­tic­u­lar knowl­edge needs of the Agency. Details of the Research Strat­egy and the Knowl­edge Pro­gramme are pro­vided, with infor­ma­tion regard­ing the roles of the groups deliv­er­ing the programme.

As well as details of the cur­rent Knowl­edge Pro­gramme you can find past research projects car­ried out by the High­ways Agency since 2002, and infor­ma­tion on Pre­vi­ous Strate­gies.

Search for past and present research, brows­ing by Port­fo­lio in the cur­rent and pre­vi­ous pro­grammes, by Topic using the list on the Top­ics page or by using the search box at the top of the page. Generic searches can be done by using keyword(s) or for a spe­cific project, use the project title or ref­er­ence num­ber where known.

To intro­duce the Knowl­edge Com­pendium and to help you get started, browse the links on the left hand side above. We wel­come feed­back about the site and any other com­ments. If you would like to email us, please fill out the Feed­back form.