Highways to be ‘tagged’

TRL is to provide highways maintenance and utility teams with advice on how to use new technologies to reduce the duration of works. TRL will disseminate the results of an 18-month study of the scope for using rapid cure materials, temporary backfilling, road plating and access chambers (pictured) on 4 December.

There is “strong potential” for tags to be regularly placed within road surfaces to provide an in-situ record of how they have been built and maintained, according to TRL.

A trial carried out by TRL with EnterpriseMouchel on the M4 has identified that it is possible to insert radio-frequency identification tags containing information during the laying of road pavements at low cost without damaging them.

TRL says that tagging roads surfaces “clearly has strong potential to...

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