Croydon Council looks to innovative bus shelters to help with connectivity, air quality and traffic management, through new partnership with VALO Smart City
Croydon Council has awarded a 10-year concession contract to VALO Smart City, after a competitive tender process, to install, operate, and maintain connected bus shelters and digital advertising in at least 185 locations across the borough. The partnership will provide next generation street furniture and will create a platform for VALO to partner with some […]
Yunex Traffic to install Zephyr® air quality monitors across Liverpool City Region
Liverpool City Region (LCR) Combined Authority has awarded a contract to Yunex Traffic to supply and install 37 Zephyr® air quality monitors, and to maintain them for a period of five years. The monitors will be installed in 37 existing traffic signal locations across the six authorities, with the option for a further 10 to […]
Lifesaving A361 road safety project earns royal recognition
The Safer Roads Fund programme has won a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for its work with Oxfordshire County Council and the Road Safety Foundation to improve conditions on the A361 between Banbury and Chipping Norton. The road was previously classed as one of the 50 most dangerous A road sections in the UK […]
AECOM secures positions on Transport for London engineering consultancy framework
The consultancy firm, AECOM, has announced it has won places on over 30 Lots of the Transport for London (TfL) Engineering Consultancy Framework (ECF), including places on the strategic Multidisciplinary Engineering Services and Multidisciplinary Rail Engineering Services Lots. The four-year framework will be the primary means of accessing engineering consultancy services for TfL, the Greater […]
GRAHAM completes phase one upgrade of iconic Liverpool road
Civil engineering specialist GRAHAM has completed a redevelopment of The Strand, one of Liverpool’s most famous roads, making it more cycle-friendly, improving public spaces and reducing congestion. Pedestrians and cyclists will now benefit from improved links between the city centre shopping areas and the waterfront leisure district as part of the wider £60m Liverpool City […]
WJ and BEAR Scotland lead the way in sustainable road design
A collaborative approach between road marking experts, WJ Scotland, and BEAR Scotland has brought significant carbon savings of 1,778 tonnes across Scotland’s North East Trunk Road Network. The partnership has seen BEAR Scotland use WJ’s award-winning high-performance road marking, Weatherline Plus, to enhance road safety across the north east of Scotland and align to Transport Scotland’s […]
Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too
By Vera O’Riordan, PhD Researcher in Marine and Renewable Energy, University College Cork Transport is responsible for 24% of energy-related carbon emissions worldwide. Half of those emissions are from carrying goods and services, and the other half are from carrying people from A to B – also known as “passenger transport”. Passenger transport has a huge impact […]
New £1.5 million bridge on A887 opens to road users
A new £1.5 million bridge was opened to traffic last week on the A887, nine miles west of Invermoriston following seven months of construction funded by Transport Scotland. The new Allt Na H-Innse Beag Bridge was built to replace the previous sub-standard bridge on the A887. The new precast concrete box-culvert structure is 5 metres […]
ADEPT Live Labs projects have brought local authorities closer to innovation than ever before, says programme director on this weeks Highways Voices
The ADEPT Live Labs projects have brought local authorities closer to innovation than they have ever been before, providing them with new, more efficient and better ways of working. These are the comments of Programme Director Giles Perkins, who spoke to Highways Voices ahead of the upcoming ADEPT Smart Places Live Labs Expo, taking place […]
Next round of hearings for A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements announced
National Highways has announced the next round of hearings for the proposed A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements, a project which will help to transform one of the regions worst congestion hotspots. The A428 scheme, which proposes a new 10-mile dual carriageway from the Black Cat Roundabout on the A1 through to Caxton Gibbet […]