What are smart motorways and how do they work?
Smart motorway technology is deployed to actively manage traffic flows and optimise the motorway network.
Why do we need Smart Motorways?
The key aim of Smart Motorways is to reduce congestion and improve journey times by better managing the traffic using roadside technology infrastructure, associated control centres, systems and operational regimes.
Other benefits of differing types of Smart Motorway operational regimes have included reductions in accidents and reduced impacts on the environment associated with emissions from stationary or slow moving vehicles.
