Provision of traffic signal equipment should be designed to Appendix 12-5 of the council’s Specification and the Standard Drawings.
The council can on request design the traffic signals within the highway works based on detailed road layout drawings supplied by the developer.
The council can supply and install all permanent traffic-control equipment to be installed as part of the highway works. Reasonable cost must be paid to the council for designing, supplying and installing the equipment.
Access at all reasonable times must be allowed to the council to any part of the site on which cables, pipes, ducts or other apparatus associated with the traffic-signal equipment is to be installed or is located so works can be carried out to install and maintain the cables, pipes ducts or other apparatus.
Traffic signals related structures will include, but is not restricted to, the following:
- Mast arms;
- Tall poles;
- Overhead Gantries.
All traffic signals must be designed and constructed in accordance with the current relevant National Highways’ standards and to the LHA’s standard specification.
The design will be subject to the technical approval procedure set out in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, national guidelines and highway authorities’ standard specification.
The Technical Approval Authority will be the relevant Local Highway Authority.
A traffic signals engineer must be employed with experience in traffic signals design including urban traffic control (UTC), Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique (SCOOT) and Microprocessor Optimised Vehicle Actuation (MOVA) to carry out the design.