New control centre to maintain south’s strategic roads

The UK Highways Agency has launched a new network control centre to assist with the maintenance and improvement of the Agency’s roads in central southern England.
November 4, 2013 Read time: 1 min
The 1841 UK Highways Agency has launched a new network control centre to assist with the maintenance and improvement of the Agency’s roads in central southern England.

The new centre incorporates the existing Hindhead tunnel control room and will be the hub of local operations of 778 miles of strategic carriageway in Hampshire, Berkshire and parts of Surrey, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire and Dorset.

EM Highway Services has recently started a five-year Asset Support Contract, valued at up to US$223 million per year with incentives for innovation and efficiency contract to maintain the network, which includes some of the oldest and most heavily trafficked roads in the country and has a mixture of trunk roads that have developed over time, as well as purpose built motorways.

The network includes the US$591 million Hindhead tunnel, a total 1,780 miles of lanes, 747 bridges/large culverts, 569 miles of barriers and ten depots to deliver maintenance and winter services.
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