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The Country Mile Project
Devon County Council was one of four Beacon authorities each to receive £1.5m from the Department for Transport to gather information about key problems facing drivers on their rural roads and develop innovative strategies to improve safety by March 2010. The strategies include a range of education, enforcement and engineering measures.
The Country Mile Project aimed to identify good practice for local highway authorities in developing and implementing an area wide, data-led, strategy for addressing road casualty reduction in rural areas. It is proposed that good practice guidance developed from the knowledge gained during the project will then be shared with other highway authorities.
The area between Exeter and Barnstaple, bordered by the A361, A377 and A396, was identified as a suitable demonstration site, offering a mixture of rural road characteristics, driver/rider challenges, user types, traffic flows and speeds and collisions that can generally be regarded as recognisable for the remainder of rural Devon.
Country Mile Results
Read the results of the project at the Department for Transport
Route Studies:
- Noble Denton Bomel's Human Factors study of the A377 between Cowley and Bishops Tawton (3.13MB - pdf help)
- Peter Hellings Associates Limited Engineering study of the A361 between Tiverton and Barnstaple (4.40MB - pdf help)
Find out more
- Country Mile Project Area
- Project Schemes
- Safety tips for driving the A361
- Safety tips for driving the A377
- Events
- Newsletters and Press Releases
- Foreign Driver Training
- Background
- Country Mile Project Partners
- A377 Drainage Study