Streetlights, bus shelters and other street furniture to be used to help speed up the next generation of ultrafast 5G technology
Mobile network operators will get easier access to lampposts, bus shelters and other street furniture to speed up the roll out of next-generation, ultrafast 5G technology under a new government trial. A £4 million competition launched today will explore ways to make it simpler and quicker for mobile companies to use publicly-owned buildings and curbside […]
Highland Council makes further investment in road network with infra-red technology
Highland Council’s roads recovery programme has taken a step forward as councillors welcomed positive progress with multimillion-pound investment in infra-red technology. This follows the council agreeing a £20 million investment in the region’s road network. Now, members of its economy and infrastructure committee agreed a further £9 million of capital from a “health and prosperity […]
Don’t miss any of our excellent Theme Week case study and technology focus articles
Highways News launched its new Theme Weeks this week with a number of articles about traffic signals and management. The subject will be covered in more details at the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium next week, for which Highways News is media partner. If you’ve missed any of the articles, they are on the Theme Week […]
ITS (UK) appoints Carbon Ambassador
In the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow, and the requirement for transport to dramatically reduce its emissions, ITS (UK) has appointed environment expert Keith McCabe to be its first Carbon Ambassador. The Intelligent Transport Systems Industry Body is keen to underline how technology is already being used to improve air quality through a range of […]
Southampton City Council launches a ‘Pothole Patrol’ as part of its commitment to road safety
Southampton City Council, along with its highways partner, Balfour Beatty Living Places, have announced that their new Pothole Patrol fleet has taken to the streets. In July the council announced in its mid-year budget there would be an investment of £830k allocated to a dedicated pothole repair crews and £10m to resurface local roads and […]
Essex residents supporting the future of active travel in the county
Essex have residents have backed the aims of the council’s Safer, Greener, Healthier Active Travel campaign with almost three quarters (74%) supporting prioritising and increasing space for walking whilst 66% support more space for cycling. In the report, on a county-wide level, traffic congestion, air pollution and road safety were top of concerns. The six-week […]
TRL appointed project management lead of Digital Road for Evolving Connected and Automated Driving programme
TRL has been appointed project management lead on the Digital Road for Evolving Connected and Automated Driving (DiREC) programme. DiREC, is a two-year program that forms part of Europe’s CEDR Transnational Research Programme (TRP), aims to establish a connected and automated vehicle (CAV)-ready framework to prepare the highways for safe and smart CAV driving. TRL will […]
Speed ticket refund possibility after camera found to give false readings
It’s emerged a speed camera in Southampton, dubbed “Britain’s busiest”, may have been incorrectly issuing fines for years. The Daily Telegraph reports that authorities could face a “deluge of challenges” after two prosecutions were withdrawn by Hampshire Constabulary when vehicles were wrongly snapped by the camera, which remains on Maybray King Way, a busy dual […]
West Sussex makes carbon savings in footway resurfacing
Impressive carbon-saving and cost-saving results have been achieved in a programme of 31 footway resurfacing schemes in West Sussex. More than 22,000 square metres of footpath were resurfaced by the council’sl contactor Rejuvo JPCS, including in Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex and Chichester. If traditional asphalt methods had been used, 554 tonnes of CO2 emissions would […]
Traffic Signal Optimisation and Virtual Infrastructure – a case study
In this case study as part of the Traffic Signals and Management Theme Week, Bradley Taylor, UK Sales Director at INRIX explains what his company’s recent success with SBRI means for current and future transport agency operations The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) has helped drive innovation for public benefit. A recent SBRI-backed competition asked […]
