About

Elgin is a roadworks information service providing details on road closures, roadworks, obstructions, events and other information for road users across a large area of the UK.

Elgin provides reliable up-to-date information to the travelling public, the emergency services, businesses, local authorities and streetworks professionals.

Elgin is operated by Jacobs on behalf of participating local authorities. The information on Elgin is kept current by automatic data feeds from local authorities' back office systems. Elgin also exchanges road works information with similar systems managed by the Highway Agency and Transport for London.

Please note that Jacobs makes no warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of the information.

Elgin provides a comprehensive information resource for the areas it covers. It is used by the travelling public and by organisations who have an interest in the traffic management and streetworks, including local authorities, the Highways Agency, utilities companies, Abnormal Loads officers, traffic news and media organisations and many others.

Elgin is evolving into a multi-agency hub for a variety of information related to traffic and highways. It will soon display events which may disrupt traffic (such as carnivals), locations of skips and scaffolding, bridges (including height and weight restrictions), diversion routes, winter gritting routes, parking restrictions and traffic orders, and many other categories of information.

TMA Compliance

Elgin enables local highway authorities to fulfil a number of key obligations under the Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA).

  • Access to information
    Firstly, the TMA states that local highway authorities must publish the contents of their streetworks register. This requirement was first introduced under e-government Priority Outcome G14 in 2001, but was widely disregarded or in some cases lip-service was paid by publishing a text list of authorities’ own road improvement works. By contrast Elgin provides comprehensive information on all road and street works via a detailed and accurate map.
  • Cross-boundary coordination
    Secondly, the TMA requires local authorities to coordinate the management of road works with neighbouring authorities. The most effective way to achieve this is to invest in a common coordination platform. Transport for London have considered this a fundamental tenet of their network management duty and have engaged with all London boroughs to create LondonWorks. In Scotland there is a central Register which performs the coordination function. In the remainder of England and Wales Elgin is the only dedicated cross boundary coordination hub for road works.
  • Parity between local authorities and utilities companies
    One of the driving principles behind the TMA is to create a level playing field for utilities companies and local authorities who both need to dig up roads, on the one hand to install and maintain infrastructure and on the other to maintain the roads themselves. TMA revises the procedures for notifications and permits which govern who gets access to the roads and when. Hitherto local authority highway maintenance departments have not been subject to the same set of procedures. The Elgin EToN Notice Module provides the facility for local authorities to notify works in exactly the same way as utilities without privileged access to the streetworks register.

Joining Elgin

The Elgin service is revolutionary in its scope and success and has won considerable acclaim from both industry and the public sector, including six major awards in recognition to its contribution to e-Government and the provision of online mapping services. Elgin is a genuinely cooperative shared service. The technology is developed and maintained by Jacobs but the development programme is directed by regional and national user groups who convene quarterly to review progress.

Local authorities are joining Elgin either individually or on a regional basis. Through interoperability with LondonWorks and the Highways Agency Elgin is established as a core component of the UK transport data infrastructure.

All correspondence concerning Elgin should be addressed to Jacobs:

James Harris
Jacobs
Tower Bridge Court
224/226 Tower Bridge Road
London
SE1 2UP

Or contact us by e-mail at elgin@jacobs.com.

If you have queries regarding individual road works please address them to the relevant Works Promoter, whose contact details can be found on the individual works details page.

Awards

  • June 2006, finalist, Effective IT Awards
  • January 2006, finalist, e-Government National Awards
  • December 2005, runner-up, AGI Local Government Award
  • May 2005, winner, Streetworks Conference
  • January 2005, finalist, e-Government National Awards
  • May 2004, winner, CSS Information Management Award

Copyright

The Elgin website is developed and supported by Jacobs Engineering UK (Ltd), hereafter Jacobs.

    Important Notice:
  • The information displayed on this website is not comprehensive
  • No warrantees can be made to its accuracy or completeness

Roadworks and other highway information is displayed within local authorities which are participating in the Elgin project (see the full list) and for the national Motorway and trunk route network managed by the Highways Agency.

The information is supplied by local authorities and utility companies. Accurate map reference locations are not always provided and in some cases only the street name is known. In such cases the roadwork may not be displayed at the correct location on the street.

Every effort has been made to ensure that all known planned roadworks are displayed within participating local authorities, but owing to the large number of organisations conducting roadworks completeness cannot be guaranteed. Emergency works and other short notice activities are not displayed.

Accuracy

The information provided on this website is the copyright of the local authority providing the source data and of Jacobs.

You may reuse the information on this website free of charge in any format. Re-use includes copying, issuing copies to the public, publishing, broadcasting and translating into other languages. It also covers non-commercial research and study. Re-use is subject to the following conditions. You must:

  • acknowledge the source on our copyright in cases where you supply the information to others;
  • reproduce the information accurately;
  • not use the information in a misleading way;
  • not use the information for the purpose of advertising or promoting a particular product or service; and
  • not use the information for any commercial activity or resale.

Liability

The contents of this web site are for information only and neither the local authority providing the source data nor Jacobs accepts any responsibility for any loss or damage caused as a result of reading or using the information.

Whilst every care has been taken in the compilation of the information, Jacobs disclaims any warranty or representation, express or implied about its accuracy, completeness or appropriateness for a particular purpose. These pages reside on a server run by Jacobs. Any views expressed in these pages are not necessarily those of Jacobs. If you find anything that causes concern please contact us at elgin@jacobs.com.

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