West Midlands Mayor issues urgent warning as Acusensus camera spots 19,000 violations in two weeks
An AI-powered road safety trial in the West Midlands has captured almost 19,000 alarming images in just two weeks showing motorists risking lives by driving without seatbelts or while using mobile phones. And now, having seen the scale of the problem, the Mayor of the West Midlands has warned to belt up and switch off […]
London not ready for driverless cars, Assembly committee warns
London’s ambition to become the first major European city to introduce fully driverless cars has been dealt a blow after a London Assembly transport committee warned the capital is not yet ready for the technology. In its report, Who’s driving the future of autonomous transport in London?, the committee said it had “not heard sufficient […]
DfT seeking insight into digital representation of England’s road network
The Department for Transport is seeking market insight into options for creating, acquiring, licensing or stewarding a nationally consistent digital representation of England’s road network. According to Find a Tender, the purpose of this RFI is to understand what data already exists, what could be collected or derived, what commercial and ownership models are available, […]
Wiltshire and Gloucestershire seek £392m surfacing contracts
Wiltshire and Gloucestershire councils have launched separate tenders for road surfacing contracts worth a combined £392m, with work potentially running into the next decade. Wiltshire’s £200 million machine surfacing contract will start in June 2027 and run for six years, with two possible two-year extensions taking it to May 2037. The contract covers machine surfacing […]
UK participants head to Korea to showcase innovation and invite the world to Birmingham 2027
“With just one year to go until we welcome the international ITS community to Birmingham, the UK-ERTICO – ITS European Pavilion in Korea provides a fantastic opportunity to showcase the very best of UK transport technology.” These words from ITS UK Chief Executive Max Sugarman come as UK-based organisations prepare to take part in the […]
TfGM seeking AI-assisted platform to create a ‘Single View of the Network’
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is seeking a cloud-hosted, AI-assisted Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) platform designed to bring together real-time transport data and give operational teams a more joined-up view of the region’s network. The move towards a ‘Single View of the Network’ could signal an important shift in the way Intelligent Transport Systems are […]
TomTom and DeepRoute.ai partner to advance AI-based automated driving
TomTom and DeepRoute.ai, the AI-powered automated driving technology company, have signed a memorandum of understanding covering their joint technical work on automated driving. The two companies have integrated TomTom’s location data into DeepRoute.ai’s automated driving stack. They will demonstrate the result on Paris roads during the Paris Motor Show. While AI-based automated driving systems become […]
“Government can remove schemes, but not congestion”: Essex highways chief challenges road investment decisions
Essex County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highways and Infrastructure has pledged to challenge Government decisions affecting what he says is more than £1.6 billion of proposed road infrastructure, warning that the county is still expected to deliver growth. Writing on LinkedIn, Mark Webster described the removal of the A127 Corridor for Growth scheme as “another […]
Government drops M5 Junction 9 and A46 transport scheme
Gloucestershire County Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council have described the Government’s decision to remove the M5 Junction 9 and A46 (Ashchurch) Transport Scheme from its national roads programme as ‘deeply disappointing’. The Department for Transport announced that the scheme has been removed from the Major Road Network and Large Local Majors Programme and is not […]
Somerset Local Transport Delivery Plan outlines major infrastructure investment
Somerset Council’s Executive this week approved a major transport investment plan that aims to improve roads, bus services and walking and cycling routes across the county. The Local Transport Delivery Plan sets out how the Council intends to invest more than £283 million of government funding between 2026 and 2030 in transport infrastructure and services. The plan […]