Guidance and best practice

If you are one of the High­ways Agency’s sup­ply chain part­ners, these pages may assist you in your work with us.  They con­tain infor­ma­tion and guid­ance on a vari­ety of High­ways Agency func­tions and initiatives.

You will also find  many doc­u­ments relat­ing to the design, con­struc­tion and main­te­nance of high­ways at the Stan­dards for High­ways site, includ­ing -

Highways Agency's visual identityThe High­ways Agency has pro­duced two doc­u­ments to help every­one work­ing for, or on behalf of, the Agency to com­mu­ni­cate clearly.
Enterprise ArchitectureThe Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture is sup­ported by the Enter­prise Archi­tec­ture Team who can pro­vide detailed advice and assis­tance to your project.
Forward Planning GuidanceHelp and guid­ance on the High­ways Agency’s for­ward pro­gram­ming process, includ­ing Con­tin­u­ous Value Management.
TTD Information SecurityThe Depart­ment for Trans­port has directed the imple­men­ta­tion of the ISO 27001 Infor­ma­tion Secu­rity Man­age­ment Sys­tem (ISMS). Under this man­date and with respect to the increas­ing need to secure Traf­fic Tech­nol­ogy Divi­sion (TTD) assets and oper­a­tions, a TTD-tailored ISMS has been developed.