Roads Performance Management Group

The Roads Performance Management Group (RPMG) is a subgroup of the UK Roads Board Its formal remit is to:

• provide a quality assurance check for the Department for Transport of the annual National Road Maintenance Condition Survey.
  
• advise the UK's national governments on appropriate measures of carriageway and footway condition.

The RPMG is chaired by Gordon Prangnell (London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) and has the following members:

Stephen Child (Surrey County Council), representing the Local Government Association
Roddy Crilly, representing the Northern Ireland Roads Service
Richard Morgan, representing the National Assembly of Wales
Phil Cadenne, representing the Welsh Association of Technical Officers (WATO)
John McRobert, representing the Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland (SCOTS)
Alistair Gow (Gowtrans), representing the Scottish Road Maintenance Condition Survey (SRMCS)
Ramesh Sinhal, representing the Highways Agency
Andy Pickett (Chris Britton Consultancy), representing the UK Roads Board UKPMS Steering Group
Kevin Fuller (Hampshire County Council), representing the UK Roads Board Footways and Cycleways Management Group
Andrew Gallagher (Halcrow), representing the UK Roads Board SCANNER Implementation Group
Jim DeSouza, representing Transport for London
Ed Lawrence (Jacobs Babtie Ltd), representing the County Surveyors' Society (CSS)
Edward Bunting, representing the Department for Transport's Regional and Local Transport Strategy and Funding Division
Drew Hird, representing the Department for Transport's Transport Statistics (Roads) Division
Paul Foskett, representing the Department for Transport's Regional and Local Transport Strategy and Funding Division
Andrew Oldland, representing the Department for Transport's Regional and Local Transport Strategy and Funding Division
Anthony Boucher, representing the Department for Transport's Transport Statistics (Roads) Division

The Group's secretary is Roger Thompson, of the Department for Transport's Transport Statistics (Roads) Division.

The Group has one working group, initially known as the Defects Index Working Group and currently known as the SCANNER Road Condition Indicator Working Group