Abstract
William Rees Jeffreys was born in London in 1871 in a world very different to the one we now know. During his lifetime, the numbers of people travelling more often and further afield greatly increased and has continued to increase to this day. This increase has brought with it new challenges. Rees Jeffreys’ vision was to create better, more attractive, safer and more accessible roads for us all.
National Highways is responsible for operating, maintaining and improving the strategic road network which is the 4,500 miles of motorways and major A roads in England. Our work is broad and includes such things as providing real-time traffic information to drivers, traffic officers responding to incidents and delivering improvement schemes, helping customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Like Rees Jeffreys’ early pioneering work, our focus is on making people’s lives easier and better and the projects we fund reflect this.
These two formidable influences on our road network, the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund and National Highways have come together and partnered with the IET for this IET Faraday Challenge.
