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Errors in major road forecasts: lots of lessons to learn

Vanessa Kovacevic, Suffolk IP28
07 February 2014
 

I am delighted that you found so much space to report the results of the Highways Agency’s POPE post-opening meta-study of major road schemes (‘Modellers struggle to predict impact of new bypass schemes’ LTT 24 Jan).

You may be interested to know that the POPE process also allows for a traffic impact study as an optional extra for controversial schemes. It consists simply (and cheaply) of running traffic counters on the relevant links for 1-2 months over the opening date. It...

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