Urgent transport decarbonisation essential to avert climate catastrophe, say UK transport planners
Over three quarters of transport planners believe the UK is not likely to reach its carbon reduction targets on the current trajectory, new research shows. The research was conducted by engineering consultancy and advisory practice, Buro Happold, in association with the Transport Planning Society (TPS) to coincide with Transport Planning Day. It shows that UK […]
Staffordshire residents embrace winter wellbeing with INTO walking and cycling scheme
The INTO Walking and Cycling scheme funded by Active Travel England is helping people stay active, social, and healthy through a variety of free walking and cycling sessions tailored for all abilities. One of the highlights of the scheme is the ‘Wheel INTO Winter’ sessions, designed to encourage residents to embrace the crisp air and […]
Harnessing the potential of technological evolution
By Ben Parsons – business development director, SRL Traffic Systems Constant technological innovation is the defining feature of our intelligent transport system (ITS) sector. Rapid technological advances expand the potential of our products to facilitate highways that are increasingly safe and more efficient for road users, road workers and pedestrians alike. Yet for us to […]
Active travel in Wales: A critical investment for 2025 and beyond
Sustrans Cymru has joined with Cycling UK and Living Streets Cymru to write to all 60 Members of the Senedd ahead of the 2025/26 Welsh Government budget, calling for active travel to remain a priority. In this open letter, the group calls on Welsh Government to ensure that active travel continues to play a major […]
Mayor of the West Midlands unveils UK’s biggest free bus travel offer this Christmas
Free weekday evening travel is being offered across the West Midlands, on all bus services, in the run up to Christmas this year, in a unique move never seen before on this scale in the UK. Between Monday 9th December and Friday 13th December all of the region’s buses will be free to use from […]
Road worker dies after multi-vehicle crash on A30
A road maintenance worker has died after a multi-vehicle crash on the A30 in Cornwall. Police said the man in his 50s was from one of two highways maintenance vehicles involved in a crash with a heavy goods vehicle on the west-bound carriageway near Launceston at about 07:30 GMT on Sunday. The HGV driver, a 51-year-old man, […]
Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce to reconvene
The Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce to reopen the key link across the Thames is being recovened, MPs have been told. Dame Bernadette Kelly, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, told the Commons Public Accounts Committee that local transport minister Simon Lightwood would join it, with a date being sought for it to meet, according to Yahoo News. The task […]
Self-Driving Vehicle of the Year 2024 is the Ohmio Lift shuttle… and Margate public get to try it
Before scooping the prestigious Vehicle of the Year title at the Self-Driving Industry Awards 2024, at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, on Friday 22 November, Ohmio provided public rides in its all-electric Lift shuttle in the gallery car park. Speaking on behalf of the judging panel, Cars of the Future editor, Neil Kennett, said: “At […]
Lord Mayor unveils new plaque to remember road crash victims in Leeds
Last Friday the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung, led a ceremony in Park Square to unveil a new plaque commemorating 25 years of the city’s memorial tree, dedicated to honouring those who have lost their lives in road collisions. The event took place during Road Safety Week, which runs from 17 to […]
TfL sets out new approach to tackle problematic parking of dockless e-bikes
TfL is working with the boroughs to create additional parking spaces for dockless rental bikes and e-scooters to enable more people to use the schemes safely TfL has written to dockless e-bike and e-scooter operators to ask them to work with it to tackle issues caused by problematic parking Enforcement action will be taken against […]