Transport and Highways

Teams

• Road Safety
• Transport Planning
• Highway Client and Records
• Highway Adoptions, Public Rights of Way, Land Drainage
• Highways Development Control
• Traffic Section:
  • Traffic Management
  • Highway Regulations, Highway Coordination
  • Traffic Information and Control

Road Safety

• Reducing accidents through physical schemes, safety training and education and publicity initiatives
• Safer Routes to School, child pedestrian training and Cycle Training
• Road Safety Audits and Road Safety Statistics
• Advice on speed limits and safety cameras

Transport Planning

• Produce the Council’s Transport Strategy and guidance
• Planning improvements to roads, footways, Cycle facilities, bus priority measures and traffic junctions
• Managing the annual programme of transport schemes, providing advice on requests for new schemes
• Promoting awareness of links between transport, health and the environment
• Providing guidance about Travel Plans for schools, businesses and other major traffic generators

Highway Client and Records

• Providing the Client role with regard to all aspects of Highway Maintenance and Council car parking
• Naming of roads and numbering properties
• Managing the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG)
• Maintaining the Council’s highway register and associated records
• Highway related searches and property enquiries
• Permanent highway closures
• Responsible for Sheffield City Council’s Transport monitoring Programme and Strategic Multi Modal Transport Model
• Collection of manual and automatic transport related data

Highway Adoptions,  Public Rights of Way and Land Drainage

• Maintaining and providing rural footpaths, bridleways and byways
• Keeping and updating the Council’s Definitive Map and Statement of Public paths and dealing with Claimed Paths
• Implementing the Country Rights of Way Act in the City
• Providing a Records and Rights information service
• Organising the Local Access Forum and preparing the Public Rights of Way Improvement Plan
• Ensuring that all new roads to be adopted by the council are built to approved plans and standards
• Undertaking the Council's role as the Land Drainage Authority for ordinary watercourses and for Land Drainage matters

Highways Development Control

• Advising on related highway matters to help design new developments
• Approval of vehicle crossings to properties

Traffic Section

• Maintaining the flow of traffic around the city
• Preliminary design of transport and traffic schemes
• Traffic Management advice
• Effecting changes in the way traffic uses the city’s roads through the careful use of traffic signing and road markings
• Permit parking scheme development
• Traffic Regulation Orders

• Coordinating all works on the highway working closely with other organisations to ensure that any disruption is kept to a minimum.
• Issuing permissions and licences to work on, under or over the highway
• Responsible for temporary highway closures and diversions.
• Dealing with most contraventions of and enforcement of highway law

• Operating, maintaining and developing the city's Intelligent Transport System - traffic signals, signalled pedestrian crossings, variable message signs, traffic CCTV cameras, vehicle monitors, public transport priority measures and the Urban Traffic Control (UTC) system
• Reviewing traffic signal timings and linking plans
• Assessing the impact of modifications and developments on the traffic network

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