Greater Manchester’s Active Travel Commissioner Dame Sarah Storey sets out Vision Zero commitment to prevent deaths and serious injuries

Active Travel Commissioner, Dame Sarah Storey has set out Greater Manchester’s intention to eliminating deaths and serious injuries on the city-region’s roads through ‘Vision Zero’.  In 2021, 858 people were killed or seriously injured in collisions on Greater Manchester’s roads.  Vision Zero is the next step in Greater Manchester’s mission to reduce the number of […]

ITS (UK) and Institute of Highway Engineers sign partnership agreement 

Intelligent Transport Systems UK (ITS UK), the leading industry association for transport technology, and the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE), the main body for the development of professional highway engineering, have today agreed a partnership to deliver even greater benefits to their memberships and the wider sector. Signed at Traffex, the Professional Development Partnership between the two […]

Kier and TerrAffix embark on new partnership to decarbonise roadside vegetation clearance

In a UK first, the RSK Group company TerrAffix, is embarking on a feasibility study with Kier to look at how vegetation removed from highways projects can be reused on site to make significant cuts to carbon.  Biochar is created through the process of pyrolysis when organic materials are turned into solid carbon under high […]