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About the Project "Safe Roads,
Reliable Journeys, Informed Travellers" are the aims of the Highways
Agency (HA). An extensive programme of improvements has been planned to
deliver these aims to the HA's network of Motorways and Trunk Roads. These
improvements are designed on the assumption that drivers will comply with
the behaviors required to realize the benefits of these improvements.
Enforcement is a tool that can be used to ensure the benefits for the
drivers who do comply are not spoilt by the few that do not.
Historically the Highways Agency has addressed the issue of
enforcement on a project by project basis with the local enforcement
agencies. A new strategic approach is now being adopted.
The Approach Amtec is managing the
Highways Agency Enforcement Policy Development Programme, which is being
developed with the enforcement agencies to jointly identify the types of
non-compliance where enforcement would provide the most benefits from within
the existing legal framework of offences. The Highways Agency Enforcement
Strategy will be the first deliverable from this programme.
The HA's Enforcement Strategy will be supported by
best-practice guidance and followed by a series of policies, each addressing
a specific component of scheme design.
Traffic policies can create new stakeholder issues. Most road
users comply with safety schemes but they also seek assurances that policies
are fair and ethical. Help from Amtec to create policies, supported by best
practice guidance, will develop trust between stakeholders and the HA.
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