Public Satisfaction Survey (PSS)

Understanding the customer perspective on highways and transport services

The NHT Survey provides nationally consistent customer insight, benchmarking and performance intelligence across highways and transport services. It helps authorities understand how services are experienced by customers, benchmark performance with peers and identify priorities for improvement. For over two decades, NHT Survey has provided one of the largest and most comprehensive sources of customer insight available to the highways and transport sector.
Measuring Public Satisfaction

SUPPORTING NATIONAL EXPECTATIONS

National guidance and reporting requirements place increasing emphasis on understanding customer priorities, public satisfaction and service outcomes.
Authorities are expected to demonstrate that investment decisions and service improvements reflect the needs and experiences of customers.

NHT Survey provides a robust and nationally consistent way to gather, analyse and benchmark customer insight.

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UNDERSTANDING THE CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE

NHT Survey captures public views across a wide range of highways and transport services

Includes areas such as:

The Survey provides:

Helping authorities understand both current performance and changing public expectations.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS & REPORTING

NHT Survey provides a comprehensive customer insight and benchmarking framework built around more than 160 performance indicators.

A comprehensive reporting suite enables authorities to:

This provides a rich evidence base for performance management, planning and reporting.

  • Benchmark with peers
  • Compare performance regionally and nationally
  • Analyse trends over time
  • Review thematic performance
  • Create comparison groups
  • Access mapping and geographic analysis
NHT Survey enables authorities to:
  • Understand customer satisfaction and perception
  • Identify public priorities
  • Compare performance with peers
  • Track trends over time
  • Inform planning and investment decisions
  • Support transparency and accountability
It provides a trusted and nationally consistent measure of customer experience.

NHT Survey can be used as a standalone source of customer insight and benchmarking intelligence.

For authorities that participate in NHT CQC, Survey results also contribute customer insight to the wider performance picture.

This allows customer satisfaction and perception to be considered alongside operational performance, efficiency, carbon and asset management information.

Providing a more complete and balanced view of service performance.

NHT Survey supports a continuous cycle of improvement:

Understand → Compare → Improve

Helping authorities use customer feedback to support service planning, investment decisions and performance improvement.

Customer insight is a vital part of understanding overall performance.

NHT Survey helps authorities:

  • Understand how services are experienced by customers
  • Identify gaps between performance and perception
  • Respond to changing public priorities
  • Strengthen transparency and accountability
  • Support evidence-based decision-making

The NHT Public Satisfaction Survey provides a trusted and nationally consistent understanding of customer experience across highways and transport services.

By combining customer insight, benchmarking and performance intelligence, NHT Survey helps authorities understand, compare and improve the services they deliver.

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The NHT Public Satisfaction Survey collects public perspectives on, and satisfaction with, Highway and Transport Services in Local Authority areas.

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The NHT Cost, Quality, Customer framework helps councils assess efficiency and value for money in highway maintenance services to aid continous improvement.