Highways Agency

• Introduction
• Route Management Strategy Overview
• Background
• Route functions
• Route objectives
• Strategy Overview
• Strategy Elements (Route Actions)
• 9.3.1 Strategy Element
• 9.3.10 Strategy Element
• 9.3.11 Strategy Element
• 9.3.12 Strategy Element
• 9.3.13 Strategy Element
• 9.3.14 Strategy Element
• 9.3.15 Strategy Element
• 9.3.16 Strategy Element
• 9.3.17 Strategy Element
• 9.3.18 Strategy Element
• 9.3.19 Strategy Element
• 9.3.2 Strategy Element
• 9.3.20 Strategy Element
• 9.3.21 Strategy Element
• 9.3.22 Strategy Element
• 9.3.23 Strategy Element
• 9.3.24 Strategy Element
• 9.3.25 Strategy Element
• 9.3.26 Strategy Element
• 9.3.27 Strategy Element
• 9.3.28 Strategy Element
• 9.3.29 Strategy Element
• 9.3.3 Strategy Element
• 9.3.30 Strategy Element
• 9.3.31 Strategy Element
• 9.3.32 Strategy Element
• 9.3.33 Strategy Element
• 9.3.34 Strategy Element
• 9.3.4 Strategy Element
• 9.3.5 Strategy Element
• 9.3.6 Strategy Element
• 9.3.7 Strategy Element
• 9.3.8 Strategy Element
• 9.3.9 Strategy Element
• Appendix A
• Section Details & Street Lighting Sheet 1 of 2
• Section Details & Street Lighting Sheet 2 of 2
• Appendix E
• Problem Identification Framework
• Route Performance Framework - (2001) Existing Solution
• Action Identification Framework
• Collated Study Data (2000)
• Appendix G
• Route management strategy overview
• Route management strategy study process

Route functions

A12 and A120 Route Management Strategy

5 Route Functions

5.1

Introduction

Separate Route Functions have been developed for the A12 and the A120.The A12 is a more significant national route with higher traffic flows,nevertheless the A120 performs an important national function in connectingthe Port of Harwich to the national road network. Both routes have a widerange of functions from providing access to the ports, for large numbersof HGVs, and to individual properties. Delegates who attended the workshopsand the seminar were involved in developing the Route Functions.

5.2

A12 Route Functions

5.2.1

The Strategic functions of the route are:

1. it provides the main road link for the movement of freight from the portsof Felixstowe and Harwich to London and southern England;
2. it is part of the most easterly major route north of the Thamesconnecting the coastal areas of East Anglia with London and southern England;
3. it provides for major holiday and leisure movements connecting the coastalarea of East Anglia the seaside resorts and the Norfolk broads with London andsouthern England;
4. it provides a route for the movement of abnormally high, wide or heavy loads and
5. it is a link in the Trans-European Route Network.

5.2.2

The Regional functions of the route are:

1. it provides for major movements in the eastern region between the M25 and the A14;
2. it provides the major road link between regional centres of population and employmentincluding Northeast London, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Witham, Colchester, Harwich,Ipswich, Felixstowe and surrounding towns;
3. it provides for large numbers of commuters travelling between the towns and from thetowns into London;
4. it provides for the distribution of goods and services between the towns and
5. it provides a distributor function around large population centres.

5.2.3

The Local functions of the route are:

1. to provide for local movements between the towns along the route;
2. to bypass towns along the route, particularly Brentwood, Chelmsford, Witham andColchester and
3. to provide local access.

5.3

A120 Route Functions

5.3.1

The Strategic functions of the route are:

6. it provides the main road transport link for the movement of freightand for passenger traffic travelling between the port of Harwich and thenational road network;
7. it provides for holiday and leisure movements;
8. it is a link in the Trans-European Route Network and
9. it provides for abnormally heavy, wide and high vehicles (only eastof Hare Green for high vehicles).

5.3.2

The Regional functions of the route are:

6. it connects the town and port of Harwich with the main road network, and
7. it provides the main route between Harwich and other towns in the region.

5.3.3

The Local functions of the route are:

4. to provide for local movements between the villages along the route and
5. to provide local access.