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UK TRAFFIC-MANAGEMENT CONTRACTOR TOOL

Traffic Management Job Pricing Tool

Turn an approved scheme into crew-hours, kit-days, extension exposure and a defensible minimum quote.

Free, editable and printable. It prices entered scope; it does not design or approve a traffic-management arrangement.

SCHEME COST BOARD

Price the approved plan, item by item.

Enter quantities from your competent person’s approved design. This tool prices scope; it does not design traffic management.

01 Crew and programme

02 Scheme bill of materials

ItemQuantityHire / unit / day
Temporary signs
Cones
Barriers
Portable signal sets
03 Rates, risk and commercial assumptions

TARGET QUOTE · EX VAT

£2,277.93

5 scheme days · 30 field person-hours · 565 kit-days

Break-even£1,867.90Extension scenario+£0.00
  1. Labour + design£948.00
  2. Kit hire£359.00
  3. Vehicles£230.00
  4. Entered pass-throughs£120.00
  5. Damage reserve£10.77
  6. Overhead£200.13

TENDER-READY SCOPE SHEET

Scheme BOM and commercial exclusions

ItemQtyDaysCost
Temporary signs205£75.00
Cones805£32.00
Barriers125£27.00
Portable signal sets15£225.00

Confirm before issue

  • Approved design and site-specific risk assessment
  • Permits, notices, TTRO/TTRN and authority lead times
  • Competence, supervision and inspection requirements
  • Pedestrian, cyclist and accessibility provisions
  • Abortive visits, overruns, damage and emergency call-outs

Price the measured scheme—not a generic day rate

The workbench keeps install, removal, maintenance attendance, design, equipment hire, vehicles, entered authority costs, travel, subcontractors, damage reserve, overhead and margin visible. Extension days reprice the resources that remain on hire and the attendance you specify.

Boundary: commercial costing, not traffic-management design

The tool prices only the quantities and approved scope entered by the user. It does not design a temporary traffic-management scheme, determine competence requirements, issue a permit or decide whether a road closure, signal arrangement or speed restriction is appropriate.

Current official references

Model 2026.08.1. Sources reviewed 2026-08-12.

USE THE RESULT

Price an approved temporary traffic-management scheme from the actual crew, equipment and duration it requires.

Sources reviewed: 2026-08-12 · Model version: 2026.08.1

Formula and meaning

Crew cost + vehicle/equipment hire + duration costs + risk allowance, then target margin

What it means: The tool starts with an approved scheme scope and exposes extension days or changed traffic-management conditions as separate cost drivers.

A one-day installation and a multi-day hire with inspections have different economics even when the basic equipment list is similar.

Key concepts

Scheme bill of materials
The temporary traffic-management equipment and crew items required by the approved scheme.
Extension price
The incremental cost when the live job runs beyond its planned hire or crew duration.

Information to confirm

  • Approved scheme and authority requirements
  • Crew hours, vehicle and equipment duration
  • Inspections, revisions and traffic-management risk

ANSWER & SCOPE

What this tool calculates

This tool prices an approved UK temporary traffic-management scheme from crew time, equipment, hire duration, inspections and risk, producing a break-even and target-quote floor without designing the scheme.

Use it when a UK traffic-management contractor estimator needs a defensible job price from an approved scheme.

Includes

  • Crew and programme inputs
  • User-entered bill of materials
  • Hire duration and extension scenario
  • Break-even and target quote

Does not include

  • Scheme design or approval
  • Permit and road-layout decisions
  • Competence determinations
  • Authority and supplier-specific hire prices

Traffic signs and road works have official guidance

The Department for Transport Traffic Signs Manual frames the official context for traffic management, which the tool references without designing or approving a scheme.

DfT — Traffic Signs Manual

Street works safety has official requirements

DfT guidance on safety at street works and road works provides the operational context a contractor should confirm; the costing tool does not determine those requirements.

DfT — Safety at Street Works

Sources reviewed: · WorkResolved methodology · About and corrections