A11/A47 Thickthorn works leave nearby homes shaking
Residents living close to the A11/A47 Thickthorn junction improvement scheme in Norfolk have reported vibrations shaking their homes during construction, with some raising concerns about cracks appearing in walls. Householders say the effects have been particularly noticeable during certain phases of the £200 million project, which is designed to improve traffic flow at the junction, […]
Suffolk has ‘just over 350 potholes left to repair’
Inspectors are working in all weathers to find and fix potholes in Suffolk, with “just over 350” now remaining across the county. Suffolk County Council repaired 15,259 road defects from January to the end of September – 20% more than the 12,736 fixed during the same period last year, reports the BBC. The authority is […]
Argyll and Bute short of drivers for winter maintenance jobs
Argyll and Bute Council in Scotland has revealed that it is facing a shortage of drivers needed to carry out the full winter maintenance programme across the region. Details have been published of the council’s plans to keep roads useable during the winter, with the programme set to start later this month and run through […]
West Midlands Mayor issues urgent warning as Acusensus camera spots 19,000 violations in two weeks
An AI-powered road safety trial in the West Midlands has captured almost 19,000 alarming images in just two weeks showing motorists risking lives by driving without seatbelts or while using mobile phones. And now, having seen the scale of the problem, the Mayor of the West Midlands has warned to belt up and switch off […]
London not ready for driverless cars, Assembly committee warns
London’s ambition to become the first major European city to introduce fully driverless cars has been dealt a blow after a London Assembly transport committee warned the capital is not yet ready for the technology. In its report, Who’s driving the future of autonomous transport in London?, the committee said it had “not heard sufficient […]
DfT seeking insight into digital representation of England’s road network
The Department for Transport is seeking market insight into options for creating, acquiring, licensing or stewarding a nationally consistent digital representation of England’s road network. According to Find a Tender, the purpose of this RFI is to understand what data already exists, what could be collected or derived, what commercial and ownership models are available, […]
Wiltshire and Gloucestershire seek £392m surfacing contracts
Wiltshire and Gloucestershire councils have launched separate tenders for road surfacing contracts worth a combined £392m, with work potentially running into the next decade. Wiltshire’s £200 million machine surfacing contract will start in June 2027 and run for six years, with two possible two-year extensions taking it to May 2037. The contract covers machine surfacing […]
TfGM seeking AI-assisted platform to create a ‘Single View of the Network’
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is seeking a cloud-hosted, AI-assisted Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) platform designed to bring together real-time transport data and give operational teams a more joined-up view of the region’s network. The move towards a ‘Single View of the Network’ could signal an important shift in the way Intelligent Transport Systems are […]
TomTom and DeepRoute.ai partner to advance AI-based automated driving
TomTom and DeepRoute.ai, the AI-powered automated driving technology company, have signed a memorandum of understanding covering their joint technical work on automated driving. The two companies have integrated TomTom’s location data into DeepRoute.ai’s automated driving stack. They will demonstrate the result on Paris roads during the Paris Motor Show. While AI-based automated driving systems become […]
Government drops M5 Junction 9 and A46 transport scheme
Gloucestershire County Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council have described the Government’s decision to remove the M5 Junction 9 and A46 (Ashchurch) Transport Scheme from its national roads programme as ‘deeply disappointing’. The Department for Transport announced that the scheme has been removed from the Major Road Network and Large Local Majors Programme and is not […]