The Highways Agency has launched its new website:
www.highways.gov.uk. The revamped site, built by
RedDot partner CDS, is expected to save the organisation £600,000 in operating costs over a 3 year period, as well as delivering critical real time information on England’s major road conditions including traffic headlines, weather forecasts and email alerts.
The new 10,000 page site replaces a website which although highly popular and well-regarded, required labour intensive and expensive manual coding. Changes had to be outsourced to an agency and often took three days to execute. In a drive to take ownership of the site internally, and increase the speed, relevance and efficiency of its online presence, the Highways Agency reviewed over fifteen CMS systems, with ease of use its key focus.