Catalogue description Transport Ministries: General Planning Highways Division, Highway Economics (HEU Series) Files

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Details of MT 148
Reference: MT 148
Title: Transport Ministries: General Planning Highways Division, Highway Economics (HEU Series) Files
Description:

This series contains the registered files of the Highway Economics Unit of the Ministry of Transport (and later Department of the Environment). The records concern the economic aspects of highway, planning, construction, design maintenance and administration. Many of the files concern techniques of investment appraisal on cost-benefit analysis. The files also concern the Highway Economics Unit's contributions to the road research programme and to Government green papers on highway strategy.

The registered files in the HEU series, which was set up in January 1967 include some files re-registered from the GPH series (otherwise in MT 120).

In 1973 the Highways Economics and Modelling Analysis Division replaced the Highway Economics Unit but this represented a change of name rather than a change of function. At the same time the HEU prefix was abandoned in favour of HEMA.
Date: 1964-1972
Related material:

EPR series files of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning are in MT 149

For further HEU files see AT 71
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HEU Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Highway Economics Unit, 1970-1973

Ministry of Transport, General Planning Highways Division, Highway Economics Unit, 1966-1970
Physical description: 44 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1997 Department of Transport

from 2000 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Selection and destruction information: Files selected for this series concern road user and construction costs, highway investment appraisal and the methodology of cost-benefit analysis; they also include examples of the Unit's contribution to the road research programme and to Government green papers on such subjects as highway strategy.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Highways Economic Unit, a mixed team of economists, engineers and mathematicians, was established on 1 October 1966 as an integral part of General Planning Highways (GPH) Division. Headed by a Senior Economic Advisor professionally responsible to the Director-General of Economic Planning, it was concerned specifically with the economic aspects of highway planning, construction, design, maintenance and administration, with priority given to work on the techniques of investment appraisal on cost-benefit lines.

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