Successful bidders in Thames Water framework announced
The winners of the £350 million Thames Water Framework include Costain, Mott MacDonald and Kier. The AMP7 framework is for works running from 2020-2025 and the contractors will work to maintain and improve Thames Water’s network of underground water pipes and sewers as well as pumping stations, reservoirs and treatment sites. The frameworks have been […]
SROH 4 guidance launched for the streetworks sector
The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched the fourth version of the Specification of the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways (SROH) which outlines the standards for reinstating streets after completing street works. Anyone who carries out street works must reinstate the street once the work is finished, in line with these standards. The fourth, released […]
How transport authorities should plan for an uncertain future?
By Glenn Lyons Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol For decades, the transport sector has, broadly speaking, honed its approach to planning for and investing in the future around the forecast-led paradigm of, predict and provide,: anticipate society’s future demand for travel, and especially car use, and invest to ensure there was […]
Locomation collaborates with TRC for new research autonomous truck project
US-based Locomation, which created the world’s first trucking technology platform to offer human-guided autonomous convoying, has agreed to conduct a research project with the Transportation Research Center. This will see Locomation test its autonomous truck platforms alongside TRC’s own extensive research and development team in order to drive further innovation on the testing and validation […]
Government announces new vision for rapid electric chargepoint network
The Department for Transport (DfT) has outline a new vision to significantly increase the number of electric car chargepoints across England’s strategic network over the next decade. According to the DfT, England’s motorways and major A roads, drivers are currently never more than 25 miles away from a rapid chargepoint. Now, government aims to ensure […]
Multi-billion investment to repair UK road and rail network
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a multi-billion package to upgrade roads and railways to help support the country’s economic recovery. There will be a £1.7 billion investment to improve journeys for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers across England will be made through repairs to local roads is part of the Government’s plan to ‘level […]
Stockport Council to get cycling and walking grant from TfGM
Stockport Council will receive a grant of up to ££500,000 to help it deliver proposals to make it easier for people to walk and cycle during the pandemic. The money has come from Transport for Greater Manchester’s #SaferStreetsSaveLives campaign, which was launched in Greater Manchester last week with the aim create enhanced shared spaces for pedestrians […]
Rethink needed on national public transport strategy
The Chief Executive of Stagecoah, Martin Griffiths, has called for a complete rethink in the way that government, local authorities and public transport operators work together. His comments come after various research has shown that public transport use could fall dramatically after the lockdown. He said the prioritisation of walking, cycling and buses over private […]
HS2 moves to support supply chain
HS2 has committed to paying its contractors by processing approved payments as soon as funds are available rather than on contracted terms and it expects them to do the same throughout the supply chain. It has written to all of its Tier 1 contractors requiring faster payments to be reflected through all tiers of the supply […]
Suffolk Highways records 18.5% rise in pothole repairs
Suffolk Highways has fixed 6,334 potholes and other highway faults during March and April, compared with 5,345 in the same period last year leading to a 18.5% increase in works. Planning of resource and time before and during the lockdown was key to then rise and highway teams working out on the network have been […]