Highways and Transportation professionals have been able to bring about dramatic changes in the region, contributing to the regeneration of communities, areas and industries, and have played a major role in modernising the Yorkshire and Humberside transport network. Key examples include:

• Development of Leeds/Bradford, Humberside, Sheffield City and Doncaster Robin Hood airports, with Leeds Bradford being a part of the Trans-European Network;
• Expansions at the Humber ports with the Humber now being Britain’s busiest estuary;
• Line 2 of South Yorkshire Supertram;
• Bus and rail interchanges at Sheffield and Meadowhall (including connections with the Supertram network);
• Electrification of the East Coast Main Line and the Leeds/Bradford to Ilkley/Skipton local rail routes;
• Inter-modal freight railports at Doncaster and Wakefield;
• Leeds integrated traffic control system, now extended to all major towns and cities in West Yorkshire;
• M62 – the highest motorway in Britain – incorporating Scammonden Dam, the first motorway construction to be used to impound a reservoir and Scammonden Viaduct;
• Development of M1, M18, M62 and A1/ A1(M) as part of the Trans European road network;
• Design and construction of the Humber Bridge – at the time of the construction the longest span suspension bridge in the world;
• East Coast Main Line Diversion (to avoid Selby Coalfield) – the first trunk railway line in England for 80 years;
• M180 – Trent Bridge, the first major glued segmental bridge in Britain; and
• A1 – M1 link road, and improvement of the A1 to motorway standards using innovative PFI funding structures.

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