National Audit Office report: Effective road and traffic management – a briefing for the Transport Select Committee

Effective road and traffic management – a briefing for the Transport Select Committee

This document outlines matters raised in reports published by the National Audit Office and Committee of Public Accounts (PAC) against the themes of the Committee’s inquiry into Effective Road and Traffic Management.

The analysis focuses on the motorway and trunk road network in line with the NAO’s remit of examining central Government expenditure and delivery. We have not updated the information contained in the reports we refer to, some of which were published a number of years ago. We refer to the following NAO reports:

• Procurement of the M25 private finance contract (2010)
• Highways Agency: Contracting for highways maintenance (2009)
• Department for Transport: Improving road safety for pedestrians and cyclists in Great Britain (2009)
• The procurement of the National Roads Telecommunications Services (2008)·
• Department for Transport: Estimating and monitoring the costs of building roads in England (2007)
• Tackling congestion by making better use of England’s motorways and trunk roads (2004)

April 2011

 

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Published date: June 13, 2011