Scheme prioritisation system

Every year, Kent Highway Services receives hundreds of scheme requests from people looking for investment and inclusion in our annual Transportation and Safety Package programme.

Unfortunately, there are too many proposals for the funding we have available.

The 2008/09 programme was a milestone in determining Kent's local transport priorities and establishing local investment programmes; it was devised using Kent's scheme prioritisation method, PIPKIN.

PIPKIN has since been updated to the scheme prioritisation system.

This has been developed to achieve two things:

• enable KCC officers to assess every scheme proposed resulting in a score. This allows comparison between one scheme and another. The highest scoring schemes are the ones that contribute the most to national, regional and local transport targets
• provide a score for every scheme which can be ranked to prioritise the proposals. This acts as a guide for officers and members on which schemes should be funded and constructed, and whose less worthy of a share of the limited budget.

For more information about the scheme prioritisation system, please contact the Transport Policy team on 01622 221615.

If you have a suggestion for a transport scheme in your area, please contact Kent Highway Services on 08458 247800.