Skip to main content

New user research: What makes a successful road journey?

Drivers say journey time is the most important factor to measure on England’s motorways and major ‘A’ roads, according to research published by Transport Focus, the transport user watchdog and the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the monitor of Highways England. The research, Measuring performance of England’s strategic roads: what users want, includes the views of drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and freight companies. Drivers are most concerned with issues relating to journey time, which includes how
March 30, 2017 Read time: 2 mins
Drivers say journey time is the most important factor to measure on England’s motorways and major ‘A’ roads, according to research published by Transport Focus, the transport user watchdog and the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the monitor of 8101 Highways England.

The research, Measuring performance of England’s strategic roads: what users want, includes the views of drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and freight companies.
 
Drivers are most concerned with issues relating to journey time, which includes how long it takes, how often you arrive when you expect to and avoiding wide variations in travel time for the same trip.
 
Safety is the focus for cyclists, pedestrians and equestrians, whether travelling along or crossing Highways England’s roads.  
 
Highways England is preparing a range of measures to assess the performance of the road network in Road Period 2.  Findings from this research have been shared with them to help with this development.
UTC

Related Content

  • January 25, 2012
    Sharing resources, reducing traffic management costs
    Telematics Technology’s Peter Billington, Chair of the UTMC ANPR Working Group, on how common protocols can enhance local agency cooperation and significantly reduce costs
  • February 1, 2012
    Cooperative road infrastructures - progress and the future
    Robert Bertini, deputy administrator of the USDOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, discusses the research and deployment paths of cooperative road infrastructures. High-level analysis by the US's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the potential of Vehicle-to-Infrastructure/Infrastructure-to-Vehicle (V2I/I2V) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technologies indicates that V2V could in exclusivity address a large proportion of crashes involving unimpaired drivers. In fact,
  • August 21, 2014
    Ken Leonard talks to ITS International
    Ken Leonard, director of the USDOT’s ITS Joint Program office made time in his schedule during the Helsinki Congress to speak to ITS International. It has been 18 months since Ken Leonard took over as the director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office at the US Department of Transportation. With 30 years of technical experience behind him, to say he is enjoying the challenge would be to put it mildly: “It is incredibly exciting to be working in intelligent transportation systems, th
  • March 31, 2023
    Asecap prepares for ‘interoperability on steroids’
    The gathering of Europe’s toll professionals offers a chance for views to be exchanged by senior people on a number of big issues: and there’s currently an awful lot to think about, reports Geoff Hadwick