DfT launches new Northern Transport Acceleration Council to help deliver vital projects in the North
The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a new Northern Transport Acceleration Council dedicated to accelerating vital infrastructure projects and better connecting communities across the North’s cities and towns. The council launched today will ensure northern leaders have a direct line to ministers and has been formed with the desire to cut bureaucracy and red […]
Traffic calming measures to be implemented by Cheshire East Council to help mitigate the impact of new link road
Traffic calming measures to be introduced by Cheshire East Council to support a wider package of measures to mitigate any impact on local roads from the new £90 million Congleton Link Road. The project has been planned to deter traffic from using these roads as shortcuts and to prevent speeding. The mitigation measures will see […]
TfL considers changes to operating hours of over 80km of bus lanes across London
Transport for London (TfL) is to trial changes to the operating hours of more than 80 kilometres of bus lanes across London to help make bus journeys faster and more reliable, as part of its London Streetspace programme. The bus lanes included in this proposal are on red routes (the Transport for London Road Network […]
US app that alerts smart vehicles to pedestrian activity makes progress
Developers of an app in the US that alerts smart vehicles to pedestrian activity to prevent accidents have partnered with the University of Michigan and is in Ann Arbor SPARK’s accelerator programme to help with further progress and development. The accelerator programme works to make the region in the US a destination for expanding business […]
Waymo and Fiat Chrysler expand their autonomous development project
Autonomous vehicle company Waymo and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV are set to expand their autonomous vehicle partnership to commercial vehicles, working on level 4 self-driving. The move will see Fiat Chrysler develop fully self-driving vehicles exclusively with Waymo in the future. Waymo, which is a unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc and Fiat Chrysler said […]
Transport Technology Forum to deliver update on current and future work via webinar
The Transport Technology Forum (TTF) is holding a virtual forum on the 31st July, to explain recent and future work with its partners. The webinar will be followed by a Q&A session and chaired by our steering panel including Steve Gooding and Anthony Ferguson from DfT. The forum topics include; TTF’s reports on the State […]
Company-wide collaboration within Eurovia helps deliver carbon savings for Essex Highways
Eurovia Surfacing has been able to achieve carbon savings of up to 25% by using a product that includes an additive that enables it to work at much lower temperatures than traditional materials. The product, Tempera, is typically supplied at temperatures 40 degrees lower than a hot equivalent. Tempera requires less energy, andgenerates fewer carbon […]
Birmingham City Council will continue to support buses post lockdowm
Birmingham City Council will continue to support buses as the city recovers from Covid-19 and its subsequent lockdown, it has said as part of its Birmingham Bus Statement, published this week. In Birmingham, says the council, 36% of households do not have access to a car, making buses an essential service for accessing education, retail […]
Kent CC starts drone testing to gain insight into whether they could be used future highway inspections
Kent County Council has been trialling drones as part of the third stage of the Department of Transport (DfT) and Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) LIVE LABS project alongside its contractor Amey. The trial is considering how effective the technology can be for highway inspections so it can potentially be […]
Somerset highway works completed ahead of schedule
A multi-million pound programme to improve 140 miles of road across Somerset is now complete, several weeks earlier than planned. Somerset County Council has worked with contractors across the county to implement surface dressing; a highly effective maintenance technique for sealing a road, improving skid resistance and making road surfaces more resilient, helping prevent more […]