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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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The Traffic Control Centre Project
Strategic Road Network
The strategic road network means the trunk roads currently operated by the Highways Agency. It comprises most motorways and the more important 'A' road and is the backbone of our transport system, catering for fast, long distance journeys. Although it currently comprises less than 4% of the English road network (10,500km out of a total of 284,000km) it carries 34% of all traffic and 67% of freight. It is also the safest road network in Europe.
The TCC Company will operate over the nationally important parts of this network, identified as the core network in England, which is set out in the Government's White Paper on the Future of Transport.
The Traffic Control Centre Project
The TCC Project will introduce, for the first time, coordinated up-to-the-minute information on the majority of the strategic road network.
A private company, known as the TCC Company, will operate this service in partnership with the Agency. The TCC Company will use existing and new traffic monitoring and information systems, working together with organisations such as the police, local highway authorities and other transport operators to provide a coordinated information service to travellers.
The TCC Project will focus on journeys made on the nationally important parts of the strategic road network. It is planned that the information gathered will be integrated with information collected from other Government initiatives looking at other transport modes (e.g., train, bus, air).
The TCC Project will see the establishment of a National Control Centre in the Midlands region to manage long-distance traffic movements on the majority of the strategic road network
