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M42 Jct 3a - Jct 7 Active Traffic Management
Overview of Active Traffic Management on the M42
The Active Traffic Management pilot brings together a number of motorway technologies to demonstrate how they can be used together to maximise their benefits.
Building on best practice and experience from the UK and around the world, Active Traffic Management combines existing, tried and tested technology, infrastructure and procedures with new and innovative ideas. Together, these make the best use of the existing road space, providing additional capacity for vehicles, with the aim of reducing congestion. This may reduce the need for motorway widening.
Active Traffic Management can be thought of as a 'tool-box' of technologies and procedures, which can be used on their own, or together, to provide solutions to specific problems.
Active Traffic Management is a pro-active approach to the management of traffic, and will allow us to better fulfil the Highways Agency's role as Network Operator by:
- Providing targeted solutions to specific problems
- Providing additional capacity for vehicles
- Piloting new and innovative concepts
- Helping to alleviate congestion
- Improving the detection of incidents
- Improving the response to incidents
- Reducing delays caused by incidents or congestion
