Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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Transport

Transport is one of the key issues for local business whether local, regional or national.

The Chambers in Hampshire represent member interests on a number of forums dealing with these issues and both Portsmouth & Southampton Chambers have active Planning & Transport Committees. 

If you have an interest in this area of our work then please e-mail maureen.frost@hampshirechamber.co.uk

Traffic Information

Below are services provided by the Highways Agency:

• Traffic England Website: TheTraffic Englandwebsite www.highways.gov.uk/trafficholds public facing traffic information services which provides real time information for events on thenetwork including the Variable Message Signs (VMS).
• Traffic Highways Website:  You can custom build this information system and also take data feeds from the NTCC.  To access this you have to sign up to the Travel Information Highway (TIH) community  http://www.tih.org.uk/  This shares best practice information amongst members on issues such as data feeds and provides access to the feeds themselves.  Once registered, follow the link within TIH Services to the National Traffic Control Centre Data Services page.  The NTCC Traffic Data attachment gives further information on the data available.  
• RSS Feeds:  Can be downloaded very simply onto your desktop, website or display screen www.highways.gov.uk/RSS. These list real time events occurring on the network and can be downloaded by region or motorway.  You will need an appropriate RSS reader to access these services.  Further customisation of the feeds is available through the Atlas Pro service.
  
  
• HAIL (Highways Agency Information Line): Telephone 08457 50 40 30 or email ha_info@highways.gsi.gov.uk.Customers can contact here for a wide variety of activity such as to find out about traffic problems,to report debris on the motorway etc.
  
  
• Automated Traffic Information Line: Telephone 08700 660 115. This service gives access to the live traffic information on a rolling basis, by road, region or date and time.
  
• Traffic Radio: Continuous traffic information station available via digital and online: http://www.trafficradio.org.uk/
  
  
• Transport Direct: The website which can be used toplan the journey using other methods of transport, this also shows CO2 levels for different forms of transport: http://www.transportdirect.info/
   

Hampshire Freight Strategy

Hampshire Chambers submitted a combined response to this consultation based on the feedback we received from our members.

Read our response here