Case Study: Northern Gas Networks achieves safer, faster streetworks planning with 1Spatial automation

Automation driving safety and efficiency in essential streetworks for Northern Gas Networks

Northern Gas Networks (NGN), the gas distributor for the North of England, needed to make streetworks planning safer, more consistent, and more cost effective while reducing delays, fines, and disruption for customers. Working with 1Spatial, NGN looked to automate the creation of compliant traffic management plans and improve the way impacted customers, including vulnerable households and key addresses, were identified and informed.

1Spatial and Northern Gas Networks built an automated system using OS data and 1Spatial’s automation technology to generate compliant traffic management plans at the click of a button. The solution reduced plan creation from days to minutes, improved consistency and regulatory compliance, cut site visits and associated carbon emissions, and enabled faster customer communications; the prototype was also recognized with multiple awards, including Best Digital Application at the UK Society of Trench-less Technology Awards 2019.

Northern Gas Networks

Richard Hynes-Cooper

Head of Innovation