Contractors working on the £88.4 million A160 Port of Immingham improvement scheme are trialling new technology to improve monitoring of highway equipment.

Costain engineers are using the online RedBite asset tool to tag Highways England owned assets such as street lighting and drainage along the route.

The data is then transmitted to a webpage where information relating to the equipment or asset is recorded for future use.


Items tagged along the A160 so far include lighting columns, signs, pavements, culverts and gullies.

It is the first time this technology has been used on a road project.

Ben Ridgeon, Highways England Project Manager, said: "Managing and tagging assets using intelligent software has many benefits, not only in recording the location of that equipment but, more crucially, in monitoring that asset in the future.

"With such heavy usage on our assets, wear and tear is inevitable. By using a system where we can record and maintain a large amount of data on a range of different equipment, we can improve accuracy on the condition of those assets."

The A160 Port of Immingham scheme involves upgrading a three-mile section of the route between the A180 and the Port of Immingham to a dual carriageway along its entire length.

(LM)