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M62 - Your Local History
A lot of finds were uncovered during the archaeological evaluation carried out for the M62 Junction 6 Improvement scheme so we thought it would be nice to provide an interactive website so you can see what we found.
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Better information for your journey
The National Traffic Control Centre collects real-time information on road conditions
Quick Links
Don't Cross or Walk Along Motorways
The Highways Agency aims to make more people aware of the dangers of walking or crossing our motorway. We have launched a poster and radio campaign aimed at 16-25yr olds. Hopefully with our hard hitting posters, our message will come across.
Educating tomorrow's drivers
See how we are driving through key messages about safety on our network for the drivers of tomorrow.
Meet the Ancestors
Find out about the history of roads and the work the Agency does to preserve archaeological remains.
See when traffic will be lightest
Our traffic forecaster can help get you there quicker
NTCC Procurement
NTCC Procurement
The £160 million NTCC Project was procured under the Government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI). A ten year contract was awarded by the Agency to Traffic Information Services (TiS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Serco Integrated Transport, to deliver twenty defined services between March 2001 and August 2010.
The contract requires 20 distinct services to be delivered to specified standards in exchange for agreed sums of money. The PFI contractor is responsible for developing and delivering the specification using its own resources.
The 20 services are:-
- Collecting a description of the Agency network & its location references
- Collecting roadworks information
- Collecting planned events information
- Collecting unplanned events information
- Monitoring of traffic conditions
- Collecting weather information
- Collecting information about significant congestion
- Off-line development of strategic response to events
- On-line development of strategic response to events
- Off-line evaluation of strategic response to events
- Provision of information via VMS
- Provision of information via the telephone service and internet site
- Provision of information to the media
- Assistance to the Secretary of State with roadworks planning
- Supply of network management and statistics
- Provision of information to the Police
- Assisting Local/other Highway Authorities
- Operate the Traffic Control Centre
- Provide a tours and presentation facility at the Traffic Control Centre
- Administration of the Travel Information Highway
- Provision of journey times on VMS
3 new services are currently under development and will be available by Autumn 2007. These are:-
- Daily delivery of real-time traffic data
- Provision of the Atlas Professional web service
