ELGIN is the trading name of Roadworks Information Limited, a new company established in 2011 dedicated to creating a new vision for transport information.
We want to make transport information easily shared and communicated - across hundreds of local Highway Authorities, to and from national networks, free to view on multiple websites and integrated into in-car navigation systems and people's mobile devices.
The services that are described on these pages are all about how to release data and make it as widely available as possible. They are cloud based, with enhancements developed by our community of clients, which can be instantly implemented across all our own and partner websites and applications..
We have also developed a funding model suited for a time of austerity - where there is a lack of central Government funding and local Highway Authorities are challenged just to maintain and repair our roads: annual subscriptions, no upfront capital charges and value for money.
And in creating a unique public-private sector governance structure we have tackled one of the great problems of public policy - how can public data be released and distributed by private investment and yet remain freely available to as many stakeholders as possible?
For more information please contact chairman@elgin.org.uk.
Daniel Gordon, Head of Highways, St Helens
"ELGIN's roadworks.org gives St Helens Council a clear visual representation of all activities on our highway network and we are genuinely excited by the possibility of using the mobile interfaces to improve the management of the network for the benefit of all highway users and to enhance customer communications."