Dorset Council looks to turn temporary into permanent in Weymouth
Dorset Council is considering permanent changes to the road layouts in a part of Weymouth to help enhance the area for families, businesses and active travel. The council has now started a consultation process on the proposals which would see the removal of parking spaces and a cycle lane created. The move follows temporary traffic […]
ADEPT calls on local authorities to help provide new data on public rights of way
The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT), is asking local authorities across England to complete a new online survey to understand the ongoing pressures on public rights of way in their areas. The short survey asks for information on impacts of levels of usage compared with 2019, budget and resource challenges, […]
Breedon Group appoints James Haluch as MD of its Contracting business
Breedon has appointed James Haluch as Managing Director of its GB Contracting business. He will join in March and will report to the Group’s Chief Executive. Mr Haluch has been Managing Director of Highways & Waste Collections at Amey for the last five years. He has grown the business significantly, both in turnover and margin, […]
Kirklees Council to consider £12 million investment for road improvements
Kirklees Council’s Cabinet will consider a proposal to spend nearly £12 million carrying out improvement work on the district’s unclassified roads. The councillors will consider the decision at their Cabinet meeting on January 19. The network of unclassified roads is over 1,440 kilometres or 895 miles long, which is roughly the same as Land’s End […]
Ordnance Survey makes new suite of APIs available for public sector access to help with planning
Ordnance Survey (OS) has made a new suite of APIs will be available for the public sector to access and use for free to support their many projects. With government transport policy committed to investing in thousands of miles of new road and rail infrastructure, location data will continue to play a key part in getting […]
VINCI to work with Eave as hearing protection partner
Eave, the UK-based tech startup company which has developed a new and unique type of hearing protection for workers, is set to work with VINCI through its Catalyst programme. Catalyst is run by Leonard, VINCI’s foresight and innovation arm – Leonard exists to provide VINCI partner companies with the support and resources they need to […]
Velocity helps eradicate potholes in Brent with intensive two-year programme
The London Borough of Brent has completed an ambitious two-year programme to get rid of potholes and defects using Velocity Patching. In the largest ever spray-injection patching project ever undertaken in the capital, the local authority set out to visit every residential street in the borough. By using Velocity Patching, preventative maintenance was carried out […]
Kier Highways to maintain all technology assets in Area 13
Kier Highways will now mainatin all technology assets across Highways England’s Area 13 network, where it where it has delivered the Maintenance and Response contract for the last three years. This follows the end of the North West Regional Technology Maintenance Contract and is part of Highways England’s drive to integrate technology maintenance into all […]
Transport Scotland encourages more innovation in sustainable public transport
Transport Scotland has made £1 million available to encourage innovation in public transport technology solutions. The second and final round of the Mobility as a Service Investment Fund supports Scotland’s green recovery, and aims to make public transport easier while encouraging people away from single-occupancy car trips. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solutions at the […]
Yorkshire based company to help make cities ‘smarter’
A local technology start-up company in Yorkshire is playing its part to make some of its cities’ transport systems ‘smarter’. Slingshot Simulations, based in Leeds, is leading a government-backed project to create 3D models of York, Leeds and Hull and the areas around them, with the aim of improving their transport networks. Slingshot says its […]