Roadworks Elgin Talk
Thursday 27th April 2017 - 6:00pm for 6:30pm start (food & drinks will be provided)
Location: Highways England, The Cube, 196 Wharfside Street Birmingham, B1 1RN
Speakers: Keith Davenport and Richard Nickson
Summary of Talk
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Institution of Civil Engineers and CIHT
Institution of Civil Engineers
Roadworks Elgin Talk
An ICE Graduates and Students & CIHT event
Improving Network Management, Planning and Communications with cloud-based “big data”
services:
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list Warwickshire use roadworks.org services intensively to manage, plan and
communicate streetworks and other events. Elgin will illustrate how these principles can be
applied across strategic management of a Key Route Network, and, to deal with the impact of
mega-projects such as HS2. Elgin have recently integrated real-time traffic disruption data
into their services, enabling seamless, real time views of active streetworks and other
incidents that are having an impact on the road network.
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Keith joined Warwickshire County Council in 1992 having worked for 10 years for British Rail.12 years ago
he was appointed Warwickshire's Traffic Manager at the inception of the Traffic Management Act. He
oversees the whole of the Warwickshire road network (3,850km). In addition he manages the Rights of Way
team maintaining 2,800km of network, in addition to 105km of unsurfaced non classified roads, and the
Highway Search enquiry service for the Authority. He is Chair of the West Midlands Joint Authorities Group
and the West Midlands Shires and Unitaries Traffic Managers group.
Richard is an engineer and chartered transport planner with 23 years’ experience within public sector
transport and highways. Richard has previously worked at Leicester
City Council,
Chester City Council
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Cheshire County Council. He joined Elgin in 2011 following three years as Head of Network Strategy at
Cheshire West and Chester Council. He has wide ranging experience across the transport, travel and road
safety and is passionate about process improvement and technical innovation
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