Highway Works
Planning road and street works, traffic and pedestrian management, visibility, work zones, services, plant and public coordination.
How to prepare for the CITB MAP test
Build manager-level decisions around role, prevention, coordination, verification and learning rather than memorising isolated site rules.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Highway work protects workers, road users and pedestrians through coordinated layout, signing, guarding, lighting and traffic management.
Exam cue: Use the current code and authority requirements for the road, nation and work type.
Concept 2
The design considers speed, visibility, road geometry, vulnerable users, queues, work vehicles, escape space and changing phases.
Exam cue: Plan installation, maintenance, alteration and removal of traffic management as hazardous tasks.
Concept 3
Client, highway authority, police, utilities and contractors coordinate where their roles and the work require it.
Exam cue: Inspect after traffic strikes, weather, phase changes or loss of equipment.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Copying a standard layout that does not fit visibility or road conditions.
Guardrail: Do not solve a design, engineering or organisational failure only with a briefing, warning sign or PPE.
Forcing pedestrians or cyclists into live traffic without a safe alternative.
Guardrail: Do not solve a design, engineering or organisational failure only with a briefing, warning sign or PPE.
Focusing on the finished work zone while ignoring setup and removal.
Guardrail: Do not solve a design, engineering or organisational failure only with a briefing, warning sign or PPE.
Memory anchors
Protect Worker and Road User
Design the work zone for traffic, pedestrians, cyclists and the workforce together.
Current Code and Authority
Apply the correct national guidance, road authority and traffic-management approval.
Visibility Drives Layout
Speed, bends, crests, weather and approach sight distance shape warning and tapering.
Safe Route for Everyone
Maintain accessible pedestrian and cycle arrangements through every phase.
Setup Is High Risk
Plan installation, change and removal with the same discipline as the main work.
Inspect the Live Layout
Check after deployment, impacts, weather, congestion and phase changes.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Next step personalized recommendations
Continue learning
Move forward only after this module is stable.
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