Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Highways Economics and Modelling Analysis Division: Registered files (HEMA series)

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Reference: AT 71
Title: Department of the Environment: Highways Economics and Modelling Analysis Division: Registered files (HEMA series)
Description:

This series contains records concerned with the economics of highway planning, design, construction and maintenance and the methodology of cost benefit analysis (COBA).
Date: 1970 - 1977
Arrangement:

The records are arranged in former reference order within each transfer.
Related material:

For other HEU series files predating 1973 see MT 148
Separated material:

Some HEMA files may have been reregistered into the APM series
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HEMA
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

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

Department of the Environment, Highways Economics and Modelling Analysis Division, 1973-1975

Department of the Environment, Highways Programming and Contracts Division, 1975-1977

Department of Transport, Highways Programming, Contacts and Lands Division, 1977-1979
Physical description: 6 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2003 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Custodial history: Records transferred to the Public Record Office form the Department of the Environment, 1973 to 1975; Department of Transport, 1975 to 1997; Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997 to date
Accumulation dates: 1973 to 1980
Selection and destruction information: The Acquisition Policy themes used to identify records worthy of permanent preservation are, 2.1.1, management of the economy and, 2.2, interaction of the state with its citizens and the environment, in particular, the economic, and social condition of the UK and the impact of the state on the physical environment. Records relating to significant cost benefit studies have been preserved. Copied of papers from the Highways Standards Committee and other sources have not been selected for permanent preservation.
Accruals: The series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Highways Economics and Modelling Analysis Division was established in the Department of the Environment at the beginning of 1973 replacing the Highways Economics Unit. This represented a change of name rather than function. The division was headed by a senior economic advisor responsible to the Director of Highways Planning and Economics. The division's functions included the economics of highway planning, design, construction and maintenance and the development and application of modelling techniques.

The division was absorbed in to the Economics, Highways and Freight Division of the Department of the Environment's Highways Programming, Contracts and Land Directorate in early 1975. This directorate was itself later absorbed into the Department of Transport. In addition to the functions detailed above the new division had responsibility for lorries in relation to the environment; road haulage industry affairs; value of time studies; and the national model of inter-urban traffic flows and applications.

The HEMA registered file series ceased to be used at the end of 1980 when the Highways and Freight Division was renamed the Assessment Policy and Methods Division and a new registered files series prefixed APM was introduced.

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