Southend-on-Sea Cabinet set to discuss new moving traffic enforcement powers
An application to Government for moving traffic enforcement powers to help reduce congestion and make roads safer, is set to be discussed at a Southend-on-Sea City Council cabinet next week. Local authorities outside of London can now apply for moving traffic offences powers, enabling them to issue fines to drivers for certain offences, as part […]
North Somerset school celebrates national green travel award
Becket Primary School in Worle, North Somerset, has achieved a Bronze award for their school travel plan. Modeshift STARS is a nationally recognised scheme that rewards schools who encourage sustainable, active, and safe travel. After consulting with everyone in the school, Becket Primary School have completed more than 15 initiatives like cycle confidence training (Bikeability) […]
Atkins appoints Andrew English as Managing Director of Transportation
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has appointed Andrew English as Managing Director of its Transportation division in the UK and Europe. Andrew joins Atkins from John Holland Group – one of Australia’s leading engineering contractors – where he was Executive General Manager for its Infrastructure business operating in the rail, water, roads, energy, airports, […]
Coventry University awarded £20 million to improve transport for people with disabilities
Coventry University has been tasked with helping to change the face of transport for people with disabilities through a £20 million grant to create the UK’s first evidence centre for accessible and inclusive transport. The grant has been made available by disability transport charity Motability, whose research shows that disabled people in the UK currently […]
Greater Manchester awarded further £3.4 million for active travel, as other authorities announce funding
Greater Manchester has been awarded nearly £3.4 million from the government and Active Travel England’s Capability & Ambition Fund to support walking and cycling infrastructure projects across the city-region. Funding received represents 10% more than the city-region’s initial allocation following a high-quality bid submission in autumn 2022. Across England, £32.9 million of total funding was […]
Applied Driving partners with IHE to target fleet and driver safety
Applied Driving has teamed up with the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) to improve health and safety for those working on the road network. The global provider of driver safety and performance management solutions has become an IHE Professional Development Partner, continuing to share best practices and help raise standards across the highways sector. “This […]
Belfast City Council launches bid to pedestrianise school roads at drop-off and pick-up times
Belfast City Council is the latest local authority to consider implementing school streets. Aside from the safety benefits of temporarily closing off roads outside schools to traffic, the schemes also improve the air quality in these areas and promote walking and cycling. A motion calling for the implementation of a pilot School Street project has been […]
Funding awarded to support active travel in Devon
Just over £580,000 has been awarded to Devon County Council to enable and encourage more people to walk and cycle. The grant from the Active Travel Capability Fund is part of a national £32.9million investment to help accelerate walking and cycling schemes across the country and make roads safer for everyone. Although the government funding cannot be […]
World’s longest box slide delivered by Balfour Beatty VINCI for HS2
Balfour Beatty VINCI has delivered the world’s longest box slide to move HS2’s 12,600 tonne bridge into place over the M42 in Warwickshire, significantly cutting disruption to road users The 450-person site team worked around the clock to move HS2’s Marston Box bridge into place over the M42 during the 2022 Christmas period. The innovative slide method […]
Pony.ai to test driverless robotaxis in Beijing
Pony.ai, a leading global autonomous driving technology company, announced that it has been issued a fully driverless autonomous vehicle road test permit by the Beijing Intelligent Connected Vehicle Policy Pilot Zone. With this new permit, Pony.ai will deploy ten driverless robotaxis for testing in challenging urban traffic scenarios across a 20 square kilometer (7.7 square […]