Sunderland highway project delivers £17m boost for local businesses
Local small and medium-sized businesses in and around Sunderland have been awarded over £17 million worth of contracts as part of a new highways scheme. New figures released show that £17.1m – 43% of the total scheme procurement – has been spent with local SMEs on the highways scheme in the City of Sunderland. Phase […]
GM’s cruise launching driverless service in Dubai
The General Motors subsidiary Cruise has signed an agreement with the Dubai Government to operate a driverless ride-hailing service in the Emirate. The agreement will make Dubai the first non-US city in the world where Cruise will commercially operate these vehicles. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority says the deployment of these self-driving vehicles is expected […]
Dominos launches driverless pizza delivery in US
The world’s largest pizza delivery company, Domino’s, has announced it’s going to be offering customers in the American city of Houston driverless deliveries. Select customers who order from a specific branch in the city can choose to have their pizza delivered by Nuro’s R2 robot, which Domino’s says is the first completely “autonomous, occupantless on-road […]
Mobileye tech underpinning driverless deliveries within two years
The Intel-owned machine vision company Mobileye has announced that its teaming up with , Silicon Valley venture-backed company Udelv to launch a fleet of autonomous delivery vehicles. The companies are planning to build more than 35,000 “Transporters” by 2028, with commercial operations beginning in 2023. The companies say this is believed to be the first […]
Total UK, Tarmac and Highways England put new bitumen binder on long-term trials on A43
A new bitumen binder which aims to help increase the lifespan of roads is being put to the test in a long-term study. Total UK has partnered with Highways England and Tarmac to resurface a section of the A43 dual carriageway in Northamptonshire, with Total Styrelf Long Life. Three sections of the road have been surfaced, the first with a […]
More than £10 million to be invested in South Lanarkshire roads over the next year
More than £10 million is to be invested in South Lanarkshire’s roads overbthe next year, according to the council. Around £7.5m will be spent on resurfacing programmes with a further £2.6m to be spent on patching, preventative maintenance, footways, structures, traffic signals, lighting and investment with North Lanarkshire Council at Horsley Brae, according to Scottish […]
North Ayrshire Council to invest in roads, lighting and bridges
North Ayrshire Council has announced it is to invest in a programme of maintenance of roads, lighting and bridges. The plans will see £5.6million spent on roads and footways, with £1.25million allocated to lighting and £710,000 to bridges and other structures. An additional £700,000 has also been brought forward to accelerate the delivery of the […]
ICE wants further insight on whether the UK’s model of planning and designing infrastructure is as effective as it could be
The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) has started a consultation that will ask whether the UK’s model of planning, prioritising and designing infrastructure – led by the National infrastructure Commission (NIC) – is as effective as it could be. The first round of the UK’s infrastructure planning process culminated in the publication of a National Infrastructure Strategy. […]
