HighwayDedication

Highway dedication provides an indication of the type of Highway user who has access to that particular section of the Highway.

Against every section of geometry supplied by the local highway authority there will be one of eight different types of Highway Dedication defined in the Highways Act 1980 and the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 which determines the Highway user access.

There can only be one Highway Dedication type applied to the geometry at any given date or time.

It is likely that more than one Highway Dedication type applies to a section of Highway (i.e. a highway open to all vehicles will also have pedestrian way or footway access) so the following is an order of priority where the highway dedications under each is inferred:

• Motorway *

• All Vehicles

• Byway Open to All Traffic

* Motorways and Cycle Tracks (not Cycle Ways) impose restrictions on all other Highway users.

• Restricted Byway

• Cycle Track * or Cycle Way

• Bridleway

• Pedestrian Way or Footpath

The Highway Dedication also identifies if the feature forms part of a National Cycle Route, Public Right of Way, Quiet Route, Physical Obstruction or Planning Order or Vehicular Traffic order exist.

The Highway dedication value is only an inference of where a Public Right of Way exists and therefore not the definitive record of Public Rights of Way, that is the definitive map held by the relevant authority.

A Highway Dedication feature will reference back to the Path Network through Network Reference and will reference a RoadLink or Street Feature.

The Highway Dedication Feature Type is not extended to Scotland because this information does not exist in the source local authority data.

Context diagram: HighwayDedication

HighwayDedication Attributes

Definition of which type of Highway user has access to a particular section of the Highway.

id

Unique identifier.

• Attribute name: gml_id (GML), toid (GeoPackage), toid (Vector Tiles)

• Type: CharacterString

• Size: 20

• Multiplicity: [1]

identifier

Uniform Resource Identifier.

• Attribute name: identifier (GML), identifier (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: CharacterString

• Size: 37

• Multiplicity: [1]

inspireId

External object identifier of the spatial object.

• Attribute name: inspireId

• Type: Identifier

• Multiplicity: [0..1]

beginLifespanVersion

Date and time at which this version of the spatial object was inserted or changed in the spatial data set.

The time part is always set to zero.

• Attribute name: beginLifespanVersion (GML), begin_lifespan_version (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: DateTime

• Multiplicity: [1]

networkRef

Spatial reference of the network-related property.

• Attribute name: networkRef (GML), network_ref (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: NetworkReference

• Multiplicity: [1..*]

validFrom

The time when the transport property started to exist in the real world.

The time part is always set to zero.

• Attribute name: validFrom (GML), valid_from (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: DateTime

• Multiplicity: [1]

reasonForChange

The reason for a change made to a feature.

• Attribute name: reasonForChange (GML), reason_for_change (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: ChangeValue

• Size: 32

• Multiplicity: [1]

dedication

The type of Highway Dedication that applies to this section of the Street.

• Attribute name: dedication (GML), dedication (GeoPackage), dedication (Vector Tiles)

• Type: DedicationValue

• Size: 35

• Multiplicity: [1]

timeInterval

Time period to which the dedication applies.

• Attribute name: startTime (GML), start_time (GeoPackage), start_time (Vector Tiles), endTime (GML), end_time (GeoPackage), end_time (Vector Tiles)

• Type: TemporalPropertyType

• Multiplicity: [0..*]

nationalCycleRoute

An indication if the dedication is subject to a formal cycle classification.

• Attribute name: nationalCycleRoute (GML), national_cycle_route (GeoPackage), national_cycle_route (Vector Tiles)

• Type: Boolean

• Size: 5

• Multiplicity: [1]

quietRoute

An indication if the dedication is subject to a quiet route.

• Attribute name: quietRoute (GML), quiet_route (GeoPackage), quiet_route (Vector Tiles)

• Type: Boolean

• Size: 5

• Multiplicity: [0..1]

obstruction

An indication if the dedication contains a physical obstruction to vehicles.

• Attribute name: obstruction (GML), obstruction (GeoPackage), obstruction (Vector Tiles)

• Type: Boolean

• Size: 5

• Multiplicity: [1]

planningOrder

An indication if a pedestrian planning order applies to the dedication.

• Attribute name: planningOrder (GML), planning_order (GeoPackage), planning_order (Vector Tiles)

• Type: Boolean

• Size: 5

• Multiplicity: [0..1]

worksProhibited

An indication if the dedication has a Traffic Regulation Order prohibiting any works in the Highway at all times.

• Attribute name: worksProhibited (GML), works_prohibited (GeoPackage), works_prohibited (Vector Tiles)

• Type: Boolean

• Size: 5

• Multiplicity: [0..1]

geometry

The geometry that represents the centreline of the dedication.

• Attribute name: Not provided (GML), geometry (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: GM_Curve

• Multiplicity: [1]