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Department for TransportThe Department for Transport's aim is a transport system that works for everyone. This means a system which balances the needs of the economy, the environment, and society.

The Department for Transport provides leadership across the transport sector to achieve its objectives, working with regional, local, and private sector partners to deliver many of the services.

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Know Your Traffic Signs: Book

This handy reference title illustrates and explains the vast majority of traffic signs that a road user is likely to encounter. ...more

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Safety at Street Works and Road Works: A Code of Practice

This publication sets out the statutory requirements for signing, lighting, and guarding excavations and other street works. This is the core reference manual for utility companies, local authorities, street work contractors and others whose day-to-day business involves street work....more

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Code of Practice for the Co-ordination of Street Works and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters 4th edition (revised October 2012)

This code of practice provides practical guidance and advice for street authorities and undertakers in England on their legal responsibilities in relation to street or highway works including:...more

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Shared Use Routes for Pedestrians and Cyclists: Local Transport Note 1/12

Shared use routes are designed to accommodate the movement of pedestrians and cyclists. This Local Transport Note (LTN) 1/12 Shared Use Routes for Pedestrians and Cyclists focuses on routes within built-up areas where the predominant function of the route is for utility transport, and where use by ...more

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Carriage of Dangerous Goods: Approved Derogations and Transitional Provisions

This document is issued in accordance with regulation 11(3) of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2009 as amended (CDG 2009); regulation 8(3) of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable ...more

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Shared Space: Local Transport Note 1/11

'Shared Space' is a design approach that seeks to change the way streets operate by reducing the dominance of motor vehicles, primarily through lower speeds and encouraging drivers to behave more accommodatingly towards pedestrians. ...more

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Management of Electronic Traffic Equipment: A Code of Practice

'Management of Electronic Traffic Equipment: A Code of Practice' contains important guidance for local authorities that own and operate electronic traffic equipment on their network. ...more

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Bus Services after the Spending Review: HC 750, Eighth Report of Session 2010-12 - Volume I: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

'Bus Services after the Spending Review (HC 750)' reports the Transport Committee's findings that extensive cuts to rural, evening and weekend bus services are damaging the ability of many people - especially the old, young or disabled - ...more

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Specification for Reinstatement of Openings in Highways: Third Edition - valid from 1 October 2010

Prepared by the Department for Transport, the 'Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways' sets out the statutory requirements for materials, performance and standards of workmanship for use in association with street works by utilities and other undertakers with apparatus in the street....more

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Practical Guide to Street Works

'Practical Guide to Street Works', provides practical advice to assist good workmanship and promote the highest standards of reinstatement by site operatives and supervisors. The information is divided into sections and presented in the order a reinstatement is undertaken: from signing, excavating, reinstating, and leaving a completed job....more

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An Introduction to the Use Of Portable Vehicular Signals: Second Edition

'An Introduction to the Use of Portable Vehicular Signals – Second Edition' is a complete update of the first edition, published in 1986, reflecting all of the changes in guidelines related to the use of vehicle actuated traffic signals. ...more

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Reported Road Casualties Great Britain: 2009: Annual Report

The 2009 edition of 'Reported Road Casualties Great Britain' presents detailed statistics about the circumstances of personal injury road accidents. Some 50 data items are collected by the police STATS19 system for each accident, including the time and location of the accident, the types ...more

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Pedestrian Guardrailing: Local Transport Note 2/09

This Local Transport Note provides guidance about pedestrian guardrailing for local authorities. It describes the development of policy guidance on guardrailing and an assessment procedure for the evaluation of the need for the installation or removal ...more

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Signal Controlled Roundabouts: Local Transport Note 1/09

This Local Transport Note seeks to provide assistance to those involved in the design and operation of signalised roundabouts. This includes roundabouts to which signals have been added, as well as junctions designed as signalised roundabouts from the outset....more

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Cycle Infrastructure Design: Local Transport Note 2/08

Encouraging more people to cycle is increasingly being seen as a vital part of any local authority plan to tackle congestion, improve air quality, promote physical activity and improve accessibility. This design guide brings together and updates guidance previously available in a number of draft Local Transport Notes ...more

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Mixed Priority Routes: Practitioners' Guide: Local Transport Note 3/08

This document reviews the experience from the ten schemes involved in the Department for Transport's Mixed Priority Route (MPR) Demonstration Project and presents the lessons learned through the project to assist other authorities in developing similar successful schemes. ...more

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Traffic Management and Streetscape: Local Transport Note 1/08

This guide, 'Traffic Management and Streetscape: Local Transport Note 1/08', helps all those participating in the design of traffic management measures to prepare schemes that consider and care for the streetscape. It assists hands-on designers, project enablers ...more

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Well-lit Highways: Code of Practice for Highway Lighting Management

The importance of public lighting maintenance to the integrated transport network, to public amenity and safety, and to crime reduction, has never been more widely recognised. ...more

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Traffic Signs Manual
To view the Traffic Signs Manual - produced jointly by the Department for Transport, the Scottish Executive, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Department for Regional Development (Northern Ireland) - please visit the Traffic Signs page within the Construction, Engineering & Planning area of this site.
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