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The DfT should explain which parts of WebTAG are non-negotiable

Tom Van Vuren, Mott MacDonald
05 March 2010
Tom Van Vuren is a divisional director at Mott MacDonald and visiting professor at the University of Leeds.
Tom Van Vuren is a divisional director at Mott MacDonald and visiting professor at the University of Leeds.

 

What worries me is that we seem to have lost sight of the guiding philosophy that prevailed when I started work in the mid-eighties, and that was at the time embedded in the Traffic Appraisal Manual, the forerunner of WebTAG and DMRB: ‘Use the simplest method of traffic estimation consistent with the complexity of the problem.’

This of course leads us back immediately to the question of fitness for purpose, that the [Coombe] report extensively refers to. Personally I am...

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