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Model backs motorway hard shoulder running

05 January 2009
 

Motorway hard shoulder running can deliver almost all the congestion relief benefits of motorway widening schemes but at a lower cost, according to results from the DfT’s National Transport Model.

The latest report on modelling results (see above) includes a comparison of widening versus hard shoulder running across 435 lane km of the motorway network. Whereas a reference case scenario predicts a rise in motorway congestion of 91% between 2003 and 2015, the road widening option cuts that...

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