Road 2001 and beyond

Road 2001 and beyond

• Mayor's Draft Transport Strategy

– Improve the effectiveness and quality of London’s street maintenance

Road 2001 and beyond

– E7.66 Real improvements are needed to the effectiveness and quality of street maintenance within London. Proper planned maintenance can make local conditions better, and save money in the long run.

Road 2001 and beyond

– E7.67 The most serious streets maintenance issue in London, as in the rest of the country, is the road maintenance backlog. The first London-wide condition survey of the 1,400km of principal roads (‘A roads’), conducted recently by the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, suggests that the amount of funding required to bring these roads up to standard is over £100m.

Road 2001 and beyond

– E7.68 Transport for London’s plans and proposals, and the Local Implementation Plans prepared by the boroughs, must include a strategy for highway maintenance. The whole maintenance issue needs to be viewed as a ten year programme. However, a shorter scale programme, say over three years, is required to focus on priorities by setting achievable targets for visible improvements.

Road 2001 and beyond

– Proposal E7.30: Transport for London and the boroughs will produce three-year street maintenance plans reflecting the objectives of the Transport Strategy.

Road 2001 and beyond

• The Boroughs?• A well managed, properly resourced

Principal Road network.• A comprehensive database that

enables good forward planning and economic management

• A contribution to the improvement of the Quality of Life for Londoners.

Road 2001 and beyond

• Review/Lessons Learnt from Road 2000

• Visual Assessment has limits• Review of programme • Review of Network • Road 2000 was ambitious but

successful• Information needs consolidating

Road 2001 and beyond

• Contracts are in place for machine surveys

• Test Borough (LB Bromley) currently in progress

• test runs of HMDIF file production and loading for machine surveys

• Data handling resources and capacity

• Tests for data combinations

Road 2001 and beyond

• Road Assessment Vehicle (RAV)• (HA TRACS)• Ruts, cracks, texture, profile,

video

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• Deflection Methods• Non Destructive Determination

of Residual Life• Still the only test that gets

below the surface

Road 2001

• Ground Radar /coring• Whole network construction

database• Relies on assistance and

information from the boroughs

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• SCRIM• Determination of skidding

Resistance

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• What about the BVPI 96?• This will be supplied based

upon Road 2000 information

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• What about the GRN ex Principal Roads?

• These are now the responsibilty of TfL and will not form part of the Roads 2001 project.

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• End of presentation - thank you

Road 2001