Over the years, the UK has invested in many forms of technology to help improve safety, capacity and customer experience, with worldleading success. Yet, the challenges our motorway network faces – congestion, reducing harm and decarbonisation to name a few – continue to grow and evolve. All this at a time when a growing proportion of technology on the motorway network is reaching the end of its
operational life.

Recognising these operational and financial constraints, a working group of experts brought together by ITS UK has produced the following report, exploring how the path to technology-driven solutions must be long-term, planned evolution rather than short-term “big bang” schemes.

The Report sets out two recommendations:

• ITS UK believes that delivering a future state for the strategic road network, to ensure it is future-ready, will best be achieved through a long-term National Motorway Technology Transition Strategy. This will bring together motorway and local authorities with national and subnational ones to provide a holistic long-term view on how emerging technologies can be integrated alongside existing ones, in a coordinated and structured way.
• ITS UK recommends that this Strategy is best delivered through a new National Motorway Technology Transition Programme, that provides a consistent approach, identifies best practice, ensures lessons can be learnt quickly and embraces innovation.

The Appendix to the Report can be found here.

With thanks to Report Contributors

• Chair: Colin Wilson, Director – UK and Ireland Transport Technologies Lead, Intelligence, Arcadis
• George Brown, ITS Consultant, KL Systems
• Mohammed Dakri, Technical Director, Amey
• Louise Early, Marketing and Commercial Director, Navtech Radar
• Sam Glaze, Principal Safety Consultant, TRL
• Andy Graham, Principal, White Willow Consulting
• Steve Hardcastle, Chief Technical Officer, Clearway Group
• Allan Hill, ITS Consultant, Get Journey Smart
• Sue Openshaw, Professional Head ITS Solutions, Jacobs
• Eduardo Pitts, Public Affairs & PR Executive, Intelligent Transport Systems UK
• Dr Nick Reed, Founder, Reed Mobility
• Richard Schofield, Consultant, Banktop Consulting
• Max Sugarman, Chief Executive, Intelligent Transport Systems UK
• Observers
• Vivi Michalaki, Head of Intelligent Transport Systems, National Highways
• Stephen Davies, Head of ITS Operations, Transport Scotland