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Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling, usually abbreviated to MIDAS, is a UK distributed network of traffic sensors, mainly inductive loops (trialling at the moment radar technology by Wavetronix and magneto-resistive wireless sensors by Clearview Intelligence), which are designed to alert the local regional control centre (RCC) to traffic flow and average speeds, and set ...
A west-east motorway bypassing Medway, Sittingbourne and Faversham. Kent: 106,582 25.7 41.4 M20: A west-east motorway linking London to Folkestone and the Channel Tunnel. 120,348 50.6 81.4 M23: A north-south motorway linking London to Gatwick Airport and Crawley. Surrey, West Sussex: 110,574 15.9 25.6 M25: A ring road of London numbered ...
Traffic England is a website [47] that gives information about the latest traffic conditions as well as details of any roadworks or events that may cause congestion. [48] By selecting current motorway information users can see the average speed between individual motorway junctions, what is being displayed on all the variable-message signs ...
The 2006 AA road map controversially included the location for thousands of speed cameras – the first time such information was available in that form. [68] A trial of number-plate displaying vehicle activated signs in 2006 at roadworks on the M42 motorway resulted in half of the speeding traffic slowed down, compared to a third who responded ...
Will start at Junction 9 A14 Kettering, bypassing Isham village reconnecting at Great Harrowden, reducing traffic between Kettering and Wellingborough. Ashbourne bypass (a new 2.8 km road to the west of Ashbourne in Derbyshire) [13] Norwich Western Link route, a proposed new 3.8 mile dual carriageway road in Norfolk [14]
Numbered roads in the UK are signed as M (Motorway), A, [12] or B [12] roads (legal "classification" varies between countries), as well as various categories of more minor roads: for internal purposes, local authorities may also use C, [13] D [citation needed] and U [13] (the letter standing for "Unclassified"); use of C and U numbers on signs is unusual but examples can be found in all four ...
Prior to 2005, the motorway network was controlled by the National Motorway Communication System (NMCS). This network was not fibre-optic or digitally controlled. The £490 million contract for the NRTS was awarded to the GeneSYS Consortium on 19 September 2005.
The M15 motorway was the designation planned in the late 1960s and early 1970s for use on the North Circular Road (A406) after it had been upgraded to motorway standard. The upgrade was part of the London Ringways Plan to build motorways throughout London to ease congestion in the central area.