19 October 2021 | Collaboration | Our Work
The Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) has teamed up with National Highways to deliver a webinar entitled ‘Transforming road markings‘.
Local authorities will be given the opportunity to find out more about a project that has been carried out by the government-owned company to evaluate various road marking products, systems and processes for removal of permanent and temporary road markings.
How these principles can be applied to local roads will form part of an update from National Highways who are charged with operating, maintaining and improving England’s motorways and major A-roads.
In early 2019 National Highways launched a global competition to identify the best performing road markings and the most effective yet least destructive road marking removal systems. Of the 34 road markings entered, laboratory testing to 2 million wheel -hits (used as a proxy for two years on road usage) allowed National Highways to identify the top performers for skid resistance and performance in the dry and wet.
The best seven products were then applied to the M5 northbound between junctions 20 and 18 for the two years on-road testing, and to allow a correlation with the laboratory results. National Highways also tested five removal systems on each of the markings with promising results.
The webinar, which is being put on by the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG), will feature representatives from National Highways and others involved in the project.
The following topic areas will be discussed:
The panel will be made up of the following participants:
– Martin Bolt, Head of Lean and Continuous Improvement, National Highways
– Keith Dawson, Non-Executive Director, Highway Resource Solutions
The event is taking place at 11am on Monday 22nd November. You can register for the event here.