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Motorway management goes private

3rd December 1998, Page 10
3rd December 1998
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• Roads Minister Lord Whitty said last week that the Highways Agency would be putting a new traffic management system for England's motorways out to private tender. Traffic Control Centres (TCCs) will collate data on traffic densities and speeds and then transmit advice about alternative routes to drivers via electronic message boards. The TCCs highlight the Highways Agency's newly defined role as a network operator rather than a road builder—a role that emerged with the Government's White Paper on the future of transport this summer.

The agency is likely to award the contract to the successful bidder in spring of 2000, with the first TCCs coming into operation in 2002.