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 […]
Several companies win work on Greater Manchester highways framework
A number of companies have won contracts as part of the £300 million Greater Manchester highways maintenance framework, led by Stockport and Bury Councils. The framework, which is open to all Greater Manchester councils, has been used by Stockport Council to create contracts over four years, with options to extend by a further four years […]
Large financial savings could still be made by switching to LED street lighting, says the UK Lighting & Technology Board
Huge financial savings and emission reductions can still be made by switching to LED street lighting according to a report commissioned by the UK Lighting & Technology Board. Its State of the Nation report from its 2020 Streetlighting survey revealed that while there remains a ‘significant opportunity’ for local authorities to capture the benefits of […]
Wiltshire Council become the first local authority members of Safer Highways
Wiltshire Council has become the first local authority to join Safer Highways as part of its new free membership programme and is also backing the organisation’s industry-led Stamp It Out initiative to eradicate road worker abuse. Speaking after becoming members, Diane Ware, Principal Technical Officer (Highways) at Wiltshire Council said: “At Wiltshire Council we have […]