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DESCRIPTION:Near You Event - Traffic Engineering Theory and Practice Underp
 inning Speed Management\n\nEvent Type: Talk or debate\n\nIndustry Sector: 
 Automobile\n\nSpeak Details: Garry Packer is a control and instrumentation
  engineer who joined the Highways Agency (now Highways England) in 2000 an
 d currently head the team that reviews the performance and calibration of 
 SMART motorways.\n\nDescription : Highways England introduced mandatory va
 riable speed limits on the M25 in 1995 between J10 and J11 to improve traf
 fic flow.&nbsp\; Since then the technology has been refined and variable s
 peed settings are now widely used across the motorway network to improve s
 afety and increase traffic flow (manage congestion).&nbsp\; The underpinni
 ng theory started to emerge in the 1950&rsquo\;s with a paper to the Royal
  Society by Lighthill and Whitham &lsquo\;on Kinematic waves II&rsquo\; in
  1955. In this brief talk the interaction of speed and flow will be explor
 ed and how this influences the speed set on the gantry.\n\nABOUT THE PRESE
 NTER\nGarry Packer is a control and instrumentation engineer\, who started
  his career nearly 40 years ago on nuclear submarines\, After 12 years in 
 the Navy he moved to Strachan &amp\; Henshaw where he was involved in comm
 issioning\, test and development mostly for the Navy\, BNFL and South West
  Water.&nbsp\; In 2000 he joined the Highways Agency (now Highways England
 ) to run the test facility approving and testing traffic signal optics.&nb
 sp\; Since then he has worked across a number of operational technology de
 partments at Highways England and currently head the team that reviews the
  performance and calibration of SMART motorways.\n\nContact Details: Jon S
 mith\nTelephone: 01279 451835
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LOCATION:Somerset College\, Lecture Theatre A\, Wellington Road\, Taunton\,
  TA1 5AX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Traffic Engineering Theory and Practice Underpinning Speed Manageme
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