Highways Agency - Safe roads, Reliable journeys, Informed travellers

Foreword

The Government's Integrated Transport Strategy sets out a new approach to national transport policy, including innovative thinking on integrating transport with many other elements of Government policy. Modern technology offers the potential for travellers to plan their journeys with the benefit of up-to-the-minute and relevant information on the actual service conditions available, covering all roads and public transport alternatives.

To this end the Highways Agency is commissioning the innovative Traffic Control Centre (TCC) Project, which is a key element of the Government's Transport 2010 Ten Year Plan for developing and modernising the transport system in England.

The TCC Project will bring about a major improvement in the traffic management and operation of the national strategic road network. Road users will benefit from much improved information on traffic conditions, to be made available through the TCC providing up-to-the-minute traffic monitoring, data co-ordination and information dissemination services. It will provide significant benefits to the travelling public, as well as to organisations such as the police, local highway authorities, other transport network operators and the media.

We aim to provide a new transport system that will bring together the public and private sectors in a partnership that will benefit everyone. The Agency's TCC Project demonstrates this partnership approach.

I look forward to the successful implementation of the TCC Project and to the benefits it will bring to motorists using England's motorways and other strategic roads, and to the travelling public generally.

Lord Whitty
Minister for Transport and the Environment