Caroline Bullock

Freight practices for Satnav
Caroline Bullock Product Manager
3 March 2009
Ordnance Survey
• National mapping agency
• Business is 90% digital data
• 10% paper mapping
• Work with Partners
Introduction – Satellite Navigation & Freight routing
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Satnav is a useful technology
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Benefits:
Better routing
Increased safety
Environmental savings
Disadvantages:
Rat running
Over reliance
Decreased safety
One size does not fit all (car users, HGV, MoD, etc)
Incomplete data or poor currency
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Role as national mapping agency
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Need for solution
OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ Layer (ITN)
Roads
Geometry
Road Routing Information (RRI)
Vehicle restrictions, traffic calming,
one-way roads and other information
Bridge weights, widths and heights
Complete weight, width and height restrictions for GB
Benefits of the ITN Layer
• Updated every six weeks
• All GB roads from motorways to pedestrianised streets
• Change only update available
• Total length of GB roads: 545 952.73km
Steep gradient attribution available soon
Providers to Satellite Navigation
Freight Routes Mapping
• GB freight advisory routes consisting of
• core network and local roads
• Freely available
• Devised by local stakeholders
• Pinned to the ITN Layer
• Maintained by Ordnance Survey
Freight Routes Mapping
Courtesy of South West Freight Forum
Freight route mapping - engagement with stakeholders
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Local communities (through local government, Regional Freight
Quality Partnerships etc)
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East of England RFQP
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South West (Somerset, Devon Cornwall et al)
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Central government (DfT)
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Industry (RHA, FTA)
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Commercial stakeholders (satnav device manufacturers)
Supportive to date
Regional Freight Quality Partnerships Other stakeholders
Freight Transport Association
South East
Road Haulage Association
East of England
Transport Direct
DfT
West Midlands
Highways Agency
East Midlands
National Network Manager’s Forum
South West
North East
North West
No national solution to date…
• Currently local paper based mapping and some
mapping on the internet
• Adding Points Of Interest is half a solution
• A national solution referencing the ITN Layer
What needs to be developed
• National classification to be agreed
• Local Authorities to develop freight routes for their area
• Complete GB map to be created
• Need support from stakeholders
• Local government (RFQPs etc)
• Central government
• Sat nav manufacturers and data intermediaries
Concerns
• Complete GB freight advisory route not available
• Difference in classification and specification
• Primary Road Network and freight advisory routes
• Not all major stakeholders engaged
• Some areas have active FQP/RFQPs and working
freight routes
Conclusion
Creating a Freight Map of Great Britain will:
• Enable freight ITS
• Get commercial vehicles on the right routes
• Reduce congestion on “local roads”
• Reduce exhaust emissions in urban areas
• Aid foreign drivers through implementation in European
devices
• Benefit the economics of GB freight companies
• Ordnance Survey can advise on mapping and
classification
caroline.bullock@ordnancesurvey.co.uk
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Ordnance Survey
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