A sensible freeway is a section of a motorway that, in very congested sections, makes use of traffic-management methods to spice up capability and reduce congestion.
These methods embrace setting variable velocity limits to manage site visitors circulate and utilizing the laborious shoulder as a operating lane.
By minimising the necessity to create additional lanes, Highways England (previously the Highways Company) developed sensible motorways to handle site visitors in a approach that minimises the impression on the atmosphere, building prices, and building time.