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<p>The Government is providing Medway Local Highway Authority £10.577 million from
2015/16 to 2018/19 for local highways maintenance. This funding includes £0.619 million
from the Pothole Action Fund to allow the repair of potholes or stop them forming
in the first place.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is providing Kent Local Highway Authority
£113.334 million from 2015/16 to 2018/19 for local highways maintenance. This funding
includes £6.764 million from the Pothole Action Fund to allow the repair of potholes
or stop them forming in the first place.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is providing
the South East’s highway authorities £619.145 million from 2015/16 to 2018/19 for
local highways maintenance. This funding includes £36.503 million from the Pothole
Action Fund to allow the repair of potholes or stop them forming in the first place.</p><p>
</p><p>In addition, the Department for Transport announced in January 2017 that it
is undertaking an innovative trial on the way potholes are identified and managed,
working in partnership with Thurrock, York and Wiltshire councils and two private
sector SMEs, Soenecs and Gaist. This trial allows high-definition cameras to be mounted
to refuse collection vehicles and by deploying innovative intelligent software will
identify road surface problems before they become potholes. The trial recently won
an award for the best use of new technology in the highways sector.</p><p> </p><p>The
Government also announced, in March 2018, that it is investing more than £900,000
in innovations using connected vehicles to help councils manage and plan maintenance
works more efficiently. These trials will ultimately help to provide councils with
data to enable them to repair potholes before they occur as well as to maintain their
other assets more effectively as part of their asset management plans.</p><p> </p><p>Finally,
the Department for Transport is providing funding to the Association of Directors
of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) to work on technological and
innovative improvements to future-proof the local road network.</p><p> </p>
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