§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list Highways Agency projects in 1998, including the 1998 national travel survey, which made use of (a) automatic traffic counters, (b) roadside interviews, (c) manual classified counts and (d) additional surveys undertaken outside the normal hours of 7 am to 7 pm on weekdays. [67710]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThe following is a table based on the information which is readily available, of the Highways Agency's projects for which surveys were undertaken in 1998. The table uses the types of surveys defined in the question but the headings describing the types of survey have been abbreviated to(a) ATCs, (b) RSIs and (c) MCCs.
There were no additional surveys undertaken in connection with Highways Agency projects outside the normal hours of 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday.
Project ATCs RSIs MCCs A428 Caxton Common to Hardwick Yes Yes Yes A14 Route Management Strategy Yes Salisbury Transport Study Yes Yes Yes A2/A282 Dartford Traffic Surveys Yes Yes Yes Bristol Severnside Study Yes A596 Wigton Bypass before/after Yes Yes A5 Fazeley before/after Yes Yes A1M Washford-Dishforth Yes M621/M1 Link before/after Yes M65 Blackburn Southern Bypass Yes M1/A1 Link (Loftbouse/Branham) before/after Yes A564 Derby Southern Bypass Yes A1033 Hendon Road Improvement Yes Yes M62 J8 and J8–9 widening Yes Yes Yes A56 Manchester Sub-Regional Highway Model Yes Yes A140 Newton Flotman Yes Yes A13 Wennington-Mar Dyke before/after Yes A11 Roudham Heath-Attleborough Yes A12 Hatfield Peveral-Witham Link Road Yes The National Travel Survey is undertaken by DETR and consists of household interviews only. As part of DETR's continuous collection of traffic data, the following surveys were undertaken during 1998:
Continuous automatic traffic counters at 134 sites;Approximately 6,000 manual classified counts between 7am and 7pm weekdays;Manual classified counts (16 or 24 hour) at approximately one third of the 523 sites on screen lines and cordons across London; andTwenty four hour manual classified counts at 50 sites four times per year within London