Yunex Traffic wins Newcastle CAZ work
Yunex Traffic, the new name for Siemens Mobility’s Intelligent Traffic systems business, has been awarded a contract to design and install a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera monitoring and enforcement solution across Newcastle city centre. The introduction of the system follows a consultation undertaken by Newcastle and Gateshead councils with […]
Traffic Group Signals launch advanced temporary signalling technology for haul routes
Traffic Group Signals, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of portable and temporary traffic signal products, has launched the innovative Metro Haul Route Crossing System. Currently available for hire, the Metro is the only wireless, temporary traffic signal range that complies with haul route permit conditions and has been designed to combat safety issues which […]
Norwegian based company Asolvi buys company behind MyMobileWorkers
Norwegian-based company Asolvi, has announced that it has acquired UK-based Momote, the company behind MyMobileWorkers (“MMW”). MyMobileWorkers is one of the UK’s most successful mobile workforce solutions for the traffic management and highways maintenance sectors. The deal will see Asolvi acquire 100% of Momote and adding the highly skilled Momote team to the expanding Asolvi UK […]
Enterprise collaboration with Microsoft brings connected car technology to rental, commercial and fleet vehicles
Enterprise Holdings has announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring connected car technology to Enterprise’s car rental, commercial and fleet vehicles in the UK as well as the US and Canada. As many as 350,000 vehicles are set to be connected in the U.S. by the end of 2021 with a fully connected fleet targeted […]
Dyer & Butler win RosPA Gold Award for health and safety values
Dyer & Butler, a part of M Group Services, has received a prestigious RoSPA Gold Award in recognition of ts health and safety values, practice and performance in the highways sector. Organisations receiving a RoSPA Award are recognised as being world-leaders in health and safety practice. Every year, nearly 2,000 entrants vie to achieve the […]
Historic Oxfordshire railway bridge to be restored to its former glory
A deteriorating nineteenth century railway bridge in Oxfordshire will be given a new lease of life as part of a renovation project led by National Highways. Restoration of the railway bridge in Horspath was announced in May, and, following a number of preparatory surveys, work is now set to start on 11 October. The bridge […]
High street retailer wilko invests in autonomous delivery company StreetDrone
High street retailer wilko has announced a major investment in the UK’s leading autonomous delivery company, StreetDrone. The £3 million investment will give the retailer a significant interest in the company, putting it at the forefront of investments in retail technology in the fast-growing autonomous vehicles industry. The investment, which is part of a wider […]
Changes to Highway Code that will help make high-speed roads safer go live
New rules to make England’s motorways and high-speed roads even safer have come into effect today in a major update to The Highway Code. The update includes clearer advice on where to stop in an emergency, the importance of not driving in a lane closed by a Red X and how variable speed limits are […]
Six in 10 people believe all-lane running smart motorways should be scrapped, according to new report
Six in 10 drivers believe that all-lane-running ‘smart’ motorways should be scrapped entirely with the hard shoulder reinstalled, a new report by the RAC has shown. The RAC’s Report on Motoring 2021 questioned 2,652 drivers about the sections of smart motorways which do without a hard shoulder, with only a quarter of respondents supporting the […]
Countdown to Congress – a Highways Voices special looking forward to Hamburg 2021 with GEWI, Yunex Traffic and the event organisers
“I think the excitement about getting back to normal business long last,” explains Danny Woolard of GEWI as he looks forward to the ITS World Congress in Hamburg next month. In a special Highways Voices podcast which also features Yunex Traffic and the event organisers and sponsored by GEWI and SWARCO, GEWI’s UK representative says […]
