National Highways is seeking views from road safety professionals on its newly-published strategic plan, which sets out the long-term vision for the strategic road network (SRN).
Connecting the Country identifies the potential challenges and opportunities that lie ahead between now and 2050.
The strategy looks at the trends, ambitions and delivery planning for nine focus areas: growth and levelling up, car travel, freight and logistics, safety, digital, decarbonisation, customer experience, sustainable network development and asset resilience.
The aim of the document is to provide a long-term backdrop to the development of National Highways’ five year investment cycles, known as Road Investment Strategies.
National Highways says its ambition is for its roads to be the safest in the world – where no one will be harmed when using or working on the SRN.
Delivery of the plan will focus on:
- Safer roads, targeting every part of the network to be rated iRAP (International Road Assessment Programme) three-star or above, where possible
- Safer people and vehicles through driver education and campaigns, minimum standards of vehicle connectivity and dynamic network management
- Safer speeds, improved post-collision response and road safety management
- Digital design and construction to reduce risk associated with road works and maintenance activities
National Highways is encouraging road safety professionals to provide feedback on the strategy – and have made a form available to do so.
Feedback will help shape the final version of the document, to be published by 2025.
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