Traffic

• Abnormal and heavy loads
  Weight restrictions can be imposed for structural or for environmental reasons. It is a legal control on a specified vehicle weight or width, mainly on lorries, on certain roads and routes. The restriction prevents large vehicles from using inappropriate roads, routes and areas.

• Advisory lorry routes
  Information on advised lorry routes with a downloadable leaflet containing a map showing advisory strategic and local lorry routes recommended for use in West Sussex. Most of these routes are dual carriageway or modern single carriageways.

• Air quality
  Air pollution monitoring is becoming more important in the efforts to protect human health from the effects of poor air quality relating to vehicle emissions. This article addresses issues in West Sussex.

• Dangerous road junctions
  We have a programme of schemes to improve the safety and operation of the highway network. Some of these schemes originate from requests made by the public.

• Managing congestion
  To effectively monitor and manage traffic in West Sussex, we have put in place a number of systems as part of a government initiative to reduce congestion.

• Taxi ranks
  The provision of taxi ranks is the responsibility of district and borough councils. District and borough councils are also responsible for co-ordinating requests for additional ranks.

• Traffic calming
  We develop and implement traffic calming measures that can include road humps, 20mph zones (not limits), chicanes, build outs, pedestrian crossing refuges and cycling measures.

• Traffic Counts
  West Sussex County Council has monitored traffic levels and traffic growth for many years in order to understand transport problems and assist in policy development. Traffic data is collected by 3 methods - manual classified counts, temporary and permanent automatic count sites.

• Traffic Regulation Orders
  A Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) is a legal order that is required when we (as the Highway Authority) restrict or prohibit an activity on the highway. They include speed limits, weight limits, clearways and parking restrictions (amongst others) and are often referred to as a TROs.