Monitoring National Highways

ORR launches consultation on monitoring strategic roads network

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26 March 2015
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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) today launched a public consultation setting out its proposed approach to a new monitoring regime to track Highways England's performance in delivering its major roads investment programme.

Office of Rail Regulation to be re-named Office of Rail and Road

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20 March 2015
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The Office of Rail Regulation will change its name to the Office of Rail and Road to reflect new responsibilities for monitoring the efficiency and performance of England's strategic road network from 1 April 2015, Roads Minister John Hayes announced in a speech yesterday.

On the Move: making sense of car and train travel trends in Britain

22 January 2014
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In early 2012, the Office of Rail Regulation, in conjunction with the Independent Transport Commission, the RAC Foundation and Transport Scotland, co-sponsored a study on car and rail traffic trends in Great Britain. The study, based on National Travel Survey data from 1995 – 2007, investigated behaviour changes and other factors which may be causing a leveling off in car traffic and sustained