A history of permit schemes and street works coordination

Cutting traffic disruption and reducinginconvenience to the public through coordinating road works is a major contemporary challengeto government. A modern day solution to the problem comes in the form of permit schemes which aims to help the coordination of roadworks. Several pioneering organisations have already introduced the scheme with positive results to date, all of which are underpinned by a reliable street information database in the form of the National Street Gazetteer (NSG).