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Transport Ministries: General Planning Highways Division, Highway Economics (HEU...
Catalogue reference: MT 148
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MT 148
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...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 148
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: General Planning Highways Division, Highway Economics (HEU Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1964-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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EPR series files of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning are in MT 149
For further HEU files see AT 71
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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HEU Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, Highway Economics Unit, 1970-1973
- Ministry of Transport, General Planning Highways Division, Highway Economics Unit, 1966-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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44 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 1997 Department of Transport
from 2000 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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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.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11197/
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