Highways Agency - Safe roads, Reliable journeys, Informed travellers

Benefits TCCs will bring

The TCCs will benefit travellers, particularly road users, by:

• Providing quality traffic and travel information to travellers even before they start a journey and helping them decide the best way to reach their destination. This will help to balance traffic across the network and encourage drivers to consider alternative forms of transport, to change their time of travel, or perhaps encourage them not to travel at all.
• Providing roadside information, via a national network of variable message signs, advising drivers of conditions on the network and suggesting alternative routes or other means of travel. This will warn drivers of queues ahead, help the police to manage traffic after accidents and help smooth flows to minimise 'stop-start' conditions.
• Making relevant and reliable information available to private sector organisations for them to pass onto their customers both in their vehicles and before they start their journeys.
• Helping the police and other emergency services by removing some of the burden of dealing with congestion caused by incidents on the network.
• Improving monitoring of the network performance aiding better management.
• Providing an organisational and technical framework for the introduction of new traffic systems (eg ramp metering) as they become generally available.