Monitoring National Highways

Developing the next Road Investment Strategy (RIS)

21 January 2022

With the constant swirl of news you would be forgiven for missing the Department for Transport’s recent publication of the document which gives the green light to start the development process for the third Road Investment Strategy (‘RIS3' for short).

Safety on the strategic road network

7 January 2022

Every road death or serious injury on the road network leaves a lasting effect on families, friends as well as those involved in dealing with such incidents.

ORR increases scrutiny of funding plans for next road period

8 December 2021

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is increasing its scrutiny of future road funding for the strategic road network as plans are drawn up for the third road investment strategy (RIS3).

Analysing the data and evidence of all lane running motorways

7 September 2021

All lane running (ALR) motorways are relatively new to Britain and understandably there are questions to understand their safety relative to conventional motorways.

ORR assesses that Highways England has met its targets but delays to large projects create future risks

15 July 2021

The Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual assessment of Highways England finds the company hit its performance targets in 2020-21, the first year (April 1 2020 to March 31 2021) of the second road period, but ORR warns of the need to address delays to some key projects and subsequent forecast underspends.

ORR report shows differences in regional performance on Highways England roads

10 February 2021

The Office of Rail and Road's monitoring of Highways England roads continued to show large differences in regional performance in 2019-20.

Clearing the road for Highways England to deliver RIS2

21 August 2020

Blog by Graham Richards, Director of Planning & Performance.

ORR Five Year Assessment: Highways England achieves targets but improvements must continue

21 July 2020

Highways England has delivered the majority of its commitments and made good progress over the first road period but the programme set out for major improvements was too optimistic.

Benchmarking Highways England

25 February 2020

By Adedayo Alao, Analyst - Highways.

Consultation on Holding Highways England to account

24 December 2019

Consultation outcome In January 2020 we published a consultation on an updated monitoring framework and enforcement policy for Highways England, titled Holding Highways England to account. This new policy replaces our existing monitoring framework and enforcement policy for Highways England and comes into effect for the start of road period 2, from 1 April 2020. We received 17 responses to the

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