The Highways Agency's 2006–07 business plan is published today and contains eight key indicators for the agency to deliver by 31 March 2007. These are: Indicator 06–07 Target Deliver the PSA target to make journeys more reliable on the strategic road network by 2007–08. Make journeys more reliable on the strategic road network by ensuring that the average vehicle delay on the 10% slowest journeys is less in 2007–08 than the baseline period. 1. Deliver improved management of the strategic road network. Assess the impact of the Agency's initiatives to improve journey time reliability by end October 2006, using the information to shape forward delivery programmes and produce a delivery trajectory by December 2006. Achieve full capability of the HA Traffic Officer service across all 7 Regional Control Centres (RCCs) by December 2006. 2. Deliver the programme of improvements to the strategic road network. Achieve at least 2023 of 2129 progress points for delivery of the strategic roads programme. Introduce controlled use of hard shoulder on the Active Traffic Management (ATM) pilot on the M42 by March 2007. Complete a cumulative total of at least 74 of 92 priority action sites at junctions. 3. Deliver improvements to journeys by making information available to influence travel behaviour and inform decisions. Evaluate the influence on driver behaviour of information channels currently available and during 2006–07 develop an improvement action plan for implementation on 2007–08. In line with the Highways Agency Information Strategy develop, for Ministerial approval, 3 new cost effective driver information services which contribute to improving journey reliability and safety for our customers. Evaluate the impact of those travel plans introduced in 2005–06 and in light of the experience gained, introduce at least 7 travel plans (making a cumulative total of at least 10) by March 2007. Deliver the Agency's agreed proportion of the national road casualty reduction target. Reduce by a third (i.e. to 2244) the number of people killed/seriously injured on the core network compared with the 1994–98 average of 3366. 4. Deliver improvements on the network to reduce the number of people killed/ seriously injured. Reduce by at least 748 to 2618. 5. Maintain the network in a safe and serviceable condition. Maintain a road surface condition index score of 100±1 6. Mitigate the potentially adverse impact of strategic roads and take opportunities to enhance the environment taking into account value for money. Deliver the Highway's Agency's contribution to the Department's joint PSA target for air quality. Achieve an average score of no less than 95% across the 5 sub targets Air Quality: implement measures to improve the air quality in at least 2 prioritised Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs) making cumulative total of 4 completed improvements in the 28 priority areas.Biodiversity: Achieve at least 7% of the published HA Biodiversity Action Plan, which extends across 15 targets (making a cumulative total of 41% of the HA BAP complete). Landscape: Introduce at least 9 planting schemes to enhance the landscape. Noise: Treat at least 110 lane km of concrete road surface with lower noise surfacing. Water: Treat at least 4 pollution risk water outfall sites. Improve the environmental performance of major schemes by improving the average score for the environmental sub-criteria in the Appraisal Summary Table, in at least 5 out of the 10 sub-criteria. 7. Deliver a high level of road user satisfaction. Achieve an overall customer satisfaction level score of at least 82% on Trunk Roads and at least 84% on Motorways across core objectives: Journey time reliability Safety Environment 8. Deliver the Highways Agency's contribution to the Department's efficiency target Deliver efficiency improvements in roads procurement through adding value to service delivery of £132m in 2006–07. Deliver our programme within the allocated administration budget, which requires an efficiency improvement of at least 2.5% per annum. Explanatory notes against each of these indicators are provided in the business plan, copies of which have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.Copies of the Highways Agency Information Strategy have also been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.

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