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As part of the Agency's Public Sector Equality Duty we have created a new page on our website to explain how we give due regard to the duty and use relevant information to inform our equality decisions.
Highways Agency team successfully demolishes Catthorpe Viaduct
Contractors worked solidly for 36 hours from midnight on Friday 6 January to demolish the old 3,500 tonne Catthorpe Viaduct which until mid-December had carried M6 southbound traffic over the M1.
Live Traffic Services
We are committed to making your journey as smooth as possible by providing you with traffic information that will help you plan your journey. Our aim is to get information to you as quickly as possible in a format that is most suitable to your needs.
There are many different ways you can receive the latest traffic information, sent to you direct from our the National Traffic Operations Centre, which monitors traffic 24/7 and provides real-time information to travellers and businesses.
Information for the Public
We now provide a number of traffic information services delivered direct to your desktop. You can subscribe to our RSS feeds and email alerts, grab and get our widgets, or install our Desktop Traffic Headlines application. Select the Traffic Services for the Public option below to learn how we can help you with your journey planning.
Information for Businesses
As an organisation, you will want to be receiving our latest information direct from the source, so we've developed a range of services to help you deliver traffic information to your staff and customers. Atlas Pro is a text-based and more detailed information service specifically developed for businesses. You can view, for example, traffic speeds, live electronic roadside messages and unconfirmed incidents for early warning. A number of features have been recently added to Atlas Professional in order to help our operational partners make the most of information from the Highways Agency.
Web site owners can also make use of our data and publish our traffic data direct to their website. See our section about publishing RSS feeds for your website.
We can also assist businesses with major event planning and contribute to your traffic management plan, providing both strategic and practical help (e.g. Approach route planning, provision of traffic information services. Select the link below for more information about our Services for Businesses.
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Our traffic services for businesses provide a more bespoke real-time traffic service for your business website. See how we can help your business deliver your traffic management plan.
Our real-time traffic information allows you to receive traffic information direct to your desktop, provided as an RSS feed or as a downloadable desktop application.
