Councils to receive £40m for school transport while more funding is announced for buses
Local authorities will receive more than £40 million to help support students to get them to school or college in the autumn term, it has been announced by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson. This funding will help them create extra capacity and allow hundreds of thousands more students to use alternatives to public transport, while social […]
Highways England turns to VR to help control room operators understand the impact of their decisions
Highways England has been working with virtual reality specialists MXTreality to create a training facility for its traffic control room operators to help them understand in more detail the impact of their decisions on motorists. Working closely with the HE training team MXTreality devised five common real-world scenarios, which would be experienced by the operators […]
Highways England’s scheme delivery framework open for tenders
Highways England’s scheme delivery framework is now open for tenders, with the £3.6 billion, six-year contract offering 161 places, split into four different bands. The new contract covers renewal, improvement and small construction scheme works and is designed to provide continuity between Highways England’s next two Roads Investment Strategy (RIS) time frames. The framework is […]
Welsh Government launches new Clear Air Plan
The Welsh Government has launched a new Clean Air Plan with the aim of improving air quality across the country. A range of measures will be taken including more active travel infrastructure, improving rail services and achieving zero tailpipe emissions from buses and taxis by 2028. The government will also implement an electric vehicle charging […]
Cambridge chosen for 12 month e-scooter trial
Cambridge has been chosen by an electric scooter operator to put a fleet of scooters on UK streets during an exclusive 12-month trial. Swedish-based micro-mobility firm Voi plans to bring the e-scooters to the city by September and will work closely with transport providers, including train and bus operators. The company will work in collaboration […]
Highways England’s Smart Motorway Alliance to hold virtual supply chain briefing
Highways England’s Smart Motorway Alliance is to hold supply chain strategy briefing event online on August 24th. The virtual event will provide an overview of the alliance, information regarding its future procurement programme on behalf of the Alliance Partners during the duration of the Alliance contract. This event is aimed to help inform the market place of […]
Safer Highways to host Healthier Highways briefing session
Safer Highways has announced that as part of its SHL!ve digital week it is to host an online webinar briefing session around the science of Wellbeing and Health, Healthier Highways – Changing the Culture of Health Protection. In partnership with Steve Perkins Associates, Connect Plus has embarked on a ground breaking initiative called ‘Healthier Highways’ to […]
£2 million to be spent on improving Carmarthenshire roads
Almost £2million is being invested in Carmarthenshire roads over the next few months. Carmarthenshire County Council has announced that 37 sections of road will be resurfaced after funding was made available from the council’s capital works programme and the Welsh Government. This new investment is in addition to a programme of preventative dressing treatment which […]
First EV charging hub through strategic partnership with Scottish Government is delivered
The first electric vehicle (EV) charging hub delivered through a strategic partnership with the Scottish Government and electricity network companies has now been installed in Strathclyde Country Park. Using a new model of delivery to improve efficiency, Project PACE has now installed EV charging infrastructure at the first of over 40 sites across North and […]
New M55 Heyhouses Link Road gets the green light after £5.8 million of central government funding
Lancashire County Council and Fylde Borough Council have welcomed the announcement of government funding to kickstart construction of a new link road. The councils said that £5.8m has been allocated to deliver the M55 Heyhouses Link Road, which will improve access between Lytham St Annes and the M55, relieve congestion on smaller local roads, and […]