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CD June 2016 - Highways England's Innovation Strategy
The document outlines Highways England's innovation strategy presented on June 9, 2016, highlighting the company's extensive road network and its strategic vision to support economic growth through a £15 billion investment plan. It discusses funding for innovation projects totaling £200 million aimed at enhancing areas like traffic management, air quality, and safety, with specific initiatives such as connected vehicle trials and autonomous vehicle testing. The overall message emphasizes the potential of innovation to transform road construction and usage.
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CD June 2016 - Highways England's Innovation Strategy
- 1. v1 Highways England’s InnovationStrategy COMIT Presentation 9 June 2016 Paul Johnson HE Innovation Group
- 2. v1 • Company limitedby shares • Over 7,000 kms of strategic roads • 3% of roads in England • Carrying a third of all traffic and two thirds of all freight in England Our Role and our Network
- 3. v1 Strategic Vision Performance Specification Investment Plan (£15B) Roads Investment Strategy 2015-2020 8 key performance areas
- 4. v1 Supporting economic growth £7.7bn of capital investment 112 major improvements 280 extra miles of Smart Motorways
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- 7. v1 Innovation Funding 2015-2020 •R&D programme– around £50M • The Innovation Designated Fund - £150m aimed at larger scale more disruptive innovation in five core areas. • Other designated funds for air quality, environment, cycling, safety, growth and housing.
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- 9. v1 Supporting the SmoothFlow of Traffic Connected vehicle wireless trials (CITE) Next generation traffic management and control system (CHARM) Autonomous vehicle trials HGV platooning
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- 12. v1 How can MobileIT help? Traffic Management & Control Better Traffic Information Connected & Autonomous Vehicles Smart Infrastructure Others?
- 13. v1 “Innovation has thepotential to revolutionise how we build and use our roads” Thank you for listening – any questions?
Editor's Notes
- #3 Role is to operate, maintain, and modernise the strategic road network in the interests of customers. Legally we are a company limited by shares with one shareholder, the SoS for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin. Greater commercial freedom and longer term funding - £15B investment over the first roads period ORR and Transport Focus: ORR hold to account for our delivery performance TF ensure customers are taken into account Targets for all of these. 95% of our business is outsourced Only England – separate arrangements in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and London All mways and strategic trunk roads – just over 7000 kms. 3% of roads, one third of all traffic, two thirds of all freight traffic
- #4 Government’s Roads Investment Strategy – perf spec and investment plan. AKA RIS1 5 year plan 2015/16 to 2019/20. £15B total. Performance specification – 8 key performance areas, first supporting economic growth.
- #5 5 strategic outcomes: First strategic outcome - Supporting economic growth. Deliver over 100 major improvement schemes Includes starting work on 15 smart mway projects
- #6 Innovation will also be critical in helping us meet the economic, environmental and efficiency challenges we will face in our changing world over the next 25 years. Efficiency targets - £1.2B savings Safety - 40% reduction in KSI by 2020, wrt 2010 Customers - Maintaining pavement condition to at least 95% without need for further investigation. £3.7bn renewing and maintaining the network
- #7 Our approach to innovation is set out in our innovation strategy and implementation plan. Strategy published 5 April Plan to be published soon We defined innovation as……. Scope All areas of innovation not just technical parts. Included capability, how we want to manage innovation
- #8 Innovation Designated Fund will be used to support key priorities set out in the Road Investment Strategy. £120M over RIS 1. £150M to 2020/21 Capital - aimed at large scale demonstration projects, trials. eg connected and autonomous vehicle technologies, provision of better information to customers and improved management of our network and infrastructure assets. Managed separately to our R&D programme (resource funded) Technology focus. Exploring the creation of a Test and Innovation Centre, which would provide a safe (off road) environment to test and develop new highway technology solutions. Seeking to use smart motorways to test innovations and prepare them for connected vehicles, for example trialling radar technology to detect stationary vehicles in live lanes Other Designated Funds will also support innovation including the: - Environment Fund - Cycling, safety and integration Fund - Air Quality Fund - Growth and Housing Fund
- #9 Started out with various technical innovation themes but decided to structure our innovation activities around the eight key outcomes (focus areas) set out in the Government’s Road Investment Strategy. 8 focus areas on slide Examples Making the network safer - We will seek to trial autonomous vehicles on our network by the end of 2017 Improving user satisfaction - long-term aim of supplying advice and information through in-vehicle systems without the need for roadside infrastructure. We’re collaborating with Rijkswaterstaat, operator of the strategic road network in the Netherlands, to deliver innovative solutions to customers through the CHARM project which is defining and delivering a new generation of traffic management systems.
- #10 Example of one of the projects we have just started under Supporting the smooth flow of traffic - Connected Intelligent Transport Environment CITE - trialling different communications protocols for vehicles that communicate with each other and infrastructure. Part of the collaborative project part-funded by InnovateUK, working with Coventry City Council, Jaguar Land Rover. Reducing the need for more physical infrastructure (road signs) and the associated installation and maintenance costs?
- #11 9 key capabilities for successful innovation – self assessment capability survey and supply chain survey. Partnering and open innovation Working with the Government, academia, small to medium enterprises, other transport authorities and wider industry will help us to share and stimulate new ideas. Key partners will include the Catapult Centres, InnovateUK, Transport Focus, the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) and the Office of Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV). We will are developing a collaboration agreement and joint programme of research with the Transport Systems Catapult, one of seven technology and innovation centres established by InnovateUK.
- #13 Temporary traffic management 45% of Smart Motorway scheme. Traffic Management and Network Operations - CHARM