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Background
In July 2001, John Spellar, the former Minister for Transport, announced that Active Traffic Management would be piloted on a section of the M42 corridor between junction 3A and 7, to the south-east of Birmingham. The Active Traffic Management pilot is expected to be fully operational by late 2006, following a phased implementation, which began in Winter 2004.
Active Traffic Management will contribute towards:
- Reliable journeys
- Reduced congestion
- Enhanced information to drivers
- Quicker response times to incidents
The Active Traffic Management pilot has been developed in close consultation with the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG), and this partnership continues in the delivery of the pilot.
Overview
The Active Traffic Management pilot brings together a number of motorway technologies to demonstrate how they can be used together to maximise their benefits.
Building on best practice and experience from the UK and around the world, Active Traffic Management combines existing, tried and tested technology, infrastructure and procedures with new and innovative ideas. Together, these make the best use of the existing road space, providing additional capacity for vehicles, with the aim of reducing congestion. This may reduce the need for motorway widening.
Active Traffic Management can be thought of as a 'tool-box' of technologies and procedures, which can be used on their own, or together, to provide solutions to specific problems.
Active Traffic Management is a pro-active approach to the management of traffic, and will allow us to better fulfil the Highways Agency's role as Network Operator by:
- Providing targeted solutions to specific problems
- Providing additional capacity for vehicles
- Piloting new and innovative concepts
- Helping to alleviate congestion
- Improving the detection of incidents
- Improving the response to incidents
- Reducing delays caused by incidents or congestion
Timetable
Active Traffic Management on the M42 has been introduced in phases. Construction began in 2003.
The final stage to be introduced was hard shoulder running, which started on 12 September 2006.
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