Transport Ministries: General Planning Highways Division, Highway Economics (HEU...

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.

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

For further HEU files see AT 71

• Department of the Environment, Highway Economics Unit, 1970-1973
• Ministry of Transport, General Planning Highways Division, Highway Economics Unit, 1966-1970

in 1997 Department of Transport

from 2000 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Topics

Road Transport

Transport management

Research

Construction industries

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.