Highways England intends to invest £150m with an aim to boost innovative technology which includes trials of wirelessly connected cars and autonomous vehicles on the UK motorways.

It has published it’s Innovation strategy, as per which its intends to use technology in order to make travel easier and smoother.

Trials of wirelessly connected vehicles would include a connected or wi-fi road that would see all cars and infrastructure wirelessly connected to each other.

"Placing Britain at the forefront of innovation and research in this area will also create more jobs and investment."

The drivers will be able to receive the latest updates on road closures, as well as alerts on congestion on roads.

This strategy also includes testing radar technology on different motorways and in tunnels with an aim to better detect vehicle breakdowns.

Roads Minister Andrew Jones said: "Innovation is absolutely critical to our £15bn investment plan for roads.

"A more reliable road network is good news for motorists and good news for the economy

"Quicker, safer roads will improve access to jobs and opportunities.

"Placing Britain at the forefront of innovation and research in this area will also create more jobs and investment."

Highways England will trial an on-road technology that can wirelessly transfer information on the latest journey directly to vehicles and can suggest other alternative routes.

Trials on driverless vehicles on motorways will also be done by the end of 2017, as announced by Chancellor George Osborne in the Budget 2016.

This will help collect real world data on performance and potential effects on capacity and operations.

Highways England chief executive Jim O’Sullivan said: "We’re committed to using innovation to benefit the millions of journeys made on England’s Strategic Road Network today and in the future."

It will also improve the signalling of junctions in a bid to ease traffic flows, analyse the use of sensors that are needed to provide precise data about the condition of roads, bridges and tunnels on the network as well as increase the use of expressways on A-roads in order to allow more free-flowing traffic.