What is Traffic Management and how does it work?

Road traffic management is a logistics sector that relates to traffic from one place to another, with scheduling and monitoring in the safest, most efficient way. Accommodating traffic in a secure and effective manner to decrease or eliminate crashes is one of the primary problems of motorway traffic management.

Depending on the place, sort of functions and length, there is a range of distinct kinds of traffic management used on the highway. These are:

What are Temporary Lights?

There are different traffic lights choices based on the place they can be two / three or multiway traffic lights. When these lamps shift, the phasing can be changed on-site and traffic lights can also be controlled manually. Our traffic management team will always take panels that can be used to stop and go if the traffic lights fail.

What is a Road Closure? 

Traffic Management companies; along with other industries such as Civils, Utilities and Construction close our roads under a legally required process known as the temporary traffic regulation order (TTRO). Traffic Management companies will attempt where possible to keep the roads open and in use for as long as they can during the work. In certain cases where road use is not permitted the traffic management companies can close the roads for a maximum of 8 hours within any 24 hour period. The pedestrians will still have access to the area and will have to follow clear signposting for their safety.

What is a Rolling road closure?

These are used primarily for occurrences and enable a road closure to travel along a scheduled path. 
Under the same legal method used for a complete highway closure, the highways will be momentarily shut.

What is a 15-minute Temporary obstruction?

Where work is needed for minor works or on slower highways, obstacle panels of 15 minutes can be put. 
These suggest a delay may occur. The work can be carried out as soon as necessary before the first vehicle stops
at the obstacle panels. The workers must then make sure they are off the highway, removing the obstacle from the highway within 15 minutes and not returning within an hour.

What are Traffic Convoy Systems?

There are more and more cars on the UK motorway network than ever before, and with Local Authorities in England managing roughly 96 per cent of motorways, Unlike motorways operated by Motorways England, these will not have been upgraded in most instances to boost their ability in tune with enhanced traffic flows.

In many instances, owing to their restrictive length and elevated car volumes, the task of keeping the present Local Authority highways to a standard anticipated by the street consumer becomes harder.

Health and safety law requires that road workers, like any other worker in the workplace, as well as members of the public who pass through the works be held secure. Therefore, in these limited street width circumstances, vehicles moving through the work region must be held under control and limited to higher rates in order to safeguard those who perform the works.

In these circumstances, convoy systems are frequently used and are outstanding in attaining these goals. They can be run on both standard single-carriage and dual-carriage ways. We use specially selected tiny cars to function in this sort of scheme for their manoeuvrability.

Convoy system planning is extremely important and we are pleased to perform the initial planning exercises necessary to properly and safely operate a convoy system and to ensure that road user delays are minimized without compromising the safety of either the road workers or the travelling public.

What is a ‘Contraflow’?

Contraflow is used on highways with more than one traffic lane and transferring traffic from its usual hand of the track to share the other half of the track with vehicles going in the reverse direction. For the safety of our operators and the public, a Vehicle Mounted Crash Cushion must be used to establish a counterflow. If this is a short-term counterflow cone, the vehicles can be separated with a maximum speed limit of 40 MPH. If the counterflow is scheduled to be in a location on a long-term basis, then danger poles are bound to the carriageway.

What is a ‘Lane Closure’?

This is used on highways with more than one traffic lane, a lane closure will be placed in a location to allow research to take place in one lane while enabling the other paths to stay accessible, as a portion of a direction closure, often speed cuts are in location.

What is ‘Give and Take’?

This traffic management is based on motorists waiting for room to transfer the works in the obstructed road. The focus is on cars on the carriageway's unblocked side.

What is ‘Priority Working’?

This is used when a portion of the road is blocked and symbols that show the direction of priority are positioned.

What are ‘Stop and Go Boards’?

These are controlled manually but can be installed in an electronic converter. These are switched to advise cars on whether they can stop or leave. The operators should be in radio contact when manually operated and be free to see each other and the moving traffic to guarantee that the panels are secure to alternate.

What are ‘Mobile Works’?

For instance, when works move hedge cutting or gully clearance, this is used. Once the moving obstacle is encountered, there may be an extra traffic management alternative in location to help pass the obstacle, such as giving and taking or stop and go cards.