Case Study Guidelines
Editorial and presentation guidelines for production of HELG website case studies.
Efficiency Case Studies
Midlands Highways Alliance (2010)
The MHA seeks to increase cross-authority working through joint procurement and embedding best practice. This is an updated case study now that the MHA has let its own schemes contract.
Staffordshire Joint Highways Venture (2010)
Staffordshire has made significant efficiency savings through a ‘virtual joint venture’ between the council and its’ term maintenance contractor.
Leeds Reduction in Claims (2010)
Leeds has achieved a significant reduction in third party claims through improving highway condition and developing asset management.
Essex Transformation Programme (2010)
Essex County Council Highways and Transportation is undergoing fundamental change to improve quality of services and to make substantial savings by eliminating inefficiency.
Download the Essex Transformation Programme Efficiency Case Study
Devon Highways Term Maintenance Procurement (2010)
Devon re-procured its highways term maintenance contract and achieved significant savings through careful risk allocation.
Download the Devon Highways Term Maintenance Efficiency Case Study
Cornwall Lean Improvement Project (2010)
Cornwall Council has improved its highways service through a lean improvement programme and achieved significant efficiency savings.
Service Improvement Westminster City Council (2008)
Using the Transport Asset Management Plan (TAMP) to deliver agreed levels of service and performance targets in the most cost effective way.
Download the Westminster City Council Service Improvement Case Study
Risk Based Inspections of the Highway – Hammersmith & Fulham (2008)
Adopting a risk management aproach to highway inspections.
Download the Hammersmith and Fulham Risk Based Inspections Case Study
Procurement – Westminster City Council (2008)
Review of contractual arrangements and procurement options.
Download the Westminster City Council Procurement Case Study
Nottinghamshire Highways Partnership (2008)
Nottinghamshire’s pursuit of highways based efficiencies is led by the Nottinghamshire Highways Partnership (NHP), an innovative approach to partnership working that combines public and private sector expertise to deliver highways services.
Download the Nottinghamshire Highways Partnership Case Study
National Customer Satisfaction Initiative – Highways and Transport Services (2008)
Responding to the need to engage with local people, a new method of guaging public satisfaction with highways and transportation services has been developed.
Download the Public Satisfaction Highways and Transportation Case Study
Midlands Highway Alliance (2008)
The Midland Highways Alliance (MHA) seeks to increase cross authority working by promoting joint procurement of highways services and by identifying and embedding best practice.
Gloucestershire Highways (2008)
Efficiency savings of 4.0% per year have been achieved in the first two years of the partnership through a range of initiatives including a significant re-structuring and rationalisation of the service.
Asset Management – Westminster City Council (2008)
Delivering agreed levels of service and formulating long term strategies and lifecycle plans through a Transport Asset Management Plan.
Download the Westminster City Council Asset Management Case Study
Strategic Approach to HIghway Asset Management – Portsmouth PPP (2009)
The condition of Portsmouth’s road network assets has been transformed by a pioneering new strategic approach which considered roads in an area network as an entity and as “Highway Assets”.