MANAGED LANES CASE STUDY

M20 POST-BREXIT TRAFFIC MANAGED WITH THE ROAD ZIPPER SYSTEM M20 OPERATION BROCK | CASE STUDY FOR MANAGED LANES

Moving traffic between the United System - a forward-thinking solution stored on the hard shoulder or the central Kingdom and France has long been that allows for future flexibility and reserve and can be rapidly deployed as a challenge. Each day, motorists and readiness including the option to traffic conditions warrant, and will never more than 15,000 commercial trucks change the road configuration based be reset by hand again, unlike steel move along the M20 motorway to upon traffic and port conditions. barriers. reach ferries or enter the . On the M20, the Road Zipper In the initial phase, the Road Zipper SystemTM is comprised of two primary provides a full contra-flow lane on the Prior to Brexit, traffic was managed components - one-meter long concrete -bound side of the M20 for through a program known as Operation reactive tension barriers that are hinged motorists, creating capacity on the port- Stack - a process for parking or together to form a continuous wall and bound side of the M20 for management “stacking” commercial trucks on machines that lift and move the wall of commercial traffic. Based upon real the M20 when services across the during active traffic. It’s designed to time conditions on the M20 and at the English Channel were disrupted by ensure the motorway is kept open at port, the system may be quickly adjusted bad weather, fire, and labor matters. times of disruption, while retaining three to execute a new traffic configuration, With Brexit, would no lanes, a hard shoulder and 70 mph such as 2x1 condition with a breakdown longer be a viable option, because of speed limits in both directions during shoulder or a 2x2 condition for longer extensive deployment time, logistics, normal traffic conditions. periods of disruption. Lindsay also the inability to contraflow local coast- provided custom-length S-A-B™ steel- bound vehicles and commercial traffic “This state-of-the-art technology reinforced barrier gates and TAU Tube™ that used to flow freely between the can be deployed quickly, simply and attenuators to complete the turn-key Port of Calais France and the Port of safely, ensuring motorists across the system. in England would, under new country can get to where they need to British regulations, be required to stop be with minimum fuss, whatever the Successful deployment of the Road for border inspections. circumstances,” said UK Department Zipper System, was achieved by for Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. working with , its When Brexit took effect on January 1, design consulting firm and operational 2021, a new congestion management The Road Zipper System was deployed contractor. Lindsay also worked hand-in- plan known as Operation Brock, or in a single overnight, with minimal hand with its internal teams and global “OpBrock,” was instituted on the M20 disruption in traffic flow. Previously partner network to quickly and efficiently between London and the Port of Dover. used Operation Stack steel barriers ensure and the project stayed on-time A key component of the OpBrock plan would have taken four to six weeks of and on-budget - despite challenges is Road ZipperTM Moveable Barrier M20 disruption to deploy and set-up. presented by the global COVID-19 The Road Zipper moveable barrier is pandemic.

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