T0683 RP2 Modelling Contract - Phase 5 25/26

The core objective of this service is to provide a range of traffic modelling services for Customer, Strategy & Communications and other Directorates. This is a one year extension to the previous four year commission, and over the last few years a number of topics have been research and reported on. Within the previous year these services explicitly included: a. To extend the work carried out under Task 5 to investigate journey time reliability to finalise work which was commenced in the previous commission and conduct further testing. b. To explore whether there is sufficient new data to re-estimate model speed flow relationships. c. Work to support National Highway's 'Size of the Prize' tool d. To peer review National Highway's Policy Modelling e. To investigate more disaggregate forecasts of the proportion of EVs using the SRN by capturing differential rates of EV adoption across England. The tasks in the coming year will include a. JTR b. Policy Modelling support c. Task 15 - To update the existing Scheme Appraisal Report (SAR).