Reigate MP launches cross-party Campaign for Better Roads
Reigate MP Rebecca Paul has launched a new cross-party group in Parliament dedicated to improving the state of the UK’s roads. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Better Roads will focus on raising awareness of the critical role the road network plays in the UK’s economy, environment, and daily life, while advocating for proper investment […]
Progress made on Glasgow’s 11km safer active travel routes
Progress has been made towards advancing 11km of walking, wheeling, and cycling routes in the Inner North and South of Glasgow, with a recent bid submitted to Transport Scotland’s Active Travel Infrastructure Fund (ATIF). The move is part of a larger effort to create a City Network, consisting of 270km of safer, segregated active travel […]
New Zemo report highlights policies needed to accelerate UK transport decarbonisation
Zemo Partnership has launched a new report describing the policies needed to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero transport. The report is launched alongside a Zemo-convened Parliamentary Roundtable event in Westminster where cross-party MPs and Lords (including members of both Transport and Business and Trade Committees) will discuss the report’s recommendations. The project: Decarbonising UK Road Transport: Map […]
Wayve and Uber partner to launch L4 autonomy trials in the UK
Wayve and Uber are to embark on a plan to develop and launch public-road trials of Level 4 (L4) fully autonomous vehicles in London. This announcement marks the UK as the largest market where Uber has announced an intention to pilot autonomous vehicles. These trials will combine Wayve’s industry-leading Embodied AI platform with Uber’s global […]
Industry issues further responses to the Comprehensive Spending Review
Reactions to the Chancellor’s Spending Review announcement continue to reach us at Highways News. Amey’s Chief Executive, Andy Milner, said: “Amey welcomes today’s announcements from the Government of additional investment in infrastructure as part of the Spending Review and the recognition of the importance of defence, transport and public infrastructure in protecting our national security […]
Coventry University’s Research Centre for Future Transport and Cities to help shape Coventry’s very light rail project
Experts at Coventry University are to play a key role in a major project aimed at providing affordable accessible transport in the city. Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR) is a project to create a rail-based mass-transit system that can be built at less than half the cost and in half the time of conventional tram […]
Additional infrastructure spending “welcome” says AECOM’s Whitehead
Richard Whitehead, chief executive (Europe and India) at AECOM, has welcomed the Comprehensive Spending Review set out by Chancellor Rachel Reeves. “Having focused on removing planning hurdles and emboldening devolved authorities in its first 12 months in power, this long-term funding cements the government’s pledge to accelerate the delivery of essential infrastructure and, in turn, […]
Heads of the Valleys Road, one of the UK’s largest road projects, officially opens
One of the UK’s largest and most technically challenging road projects has officially opened, completing the £2bn Heads of the Valleys Road upgrade programme helping to deliver better transport and fix our roads. The final phase of the Welsh Government funded upgrade programme , which was designed to deliver prosperity to some of the most […]
Q-Free and Iowa DOT to deploy Kinetic Mobility Advanced Traffic Management System statewide
Q-Free has announced a multi-year agreement with the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) to update its statewide Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) with Q-Free’s Kinetic Mobility. Q-Free, which previously deployed the agency’s legacy ATMS, won the award in a competitive bid. With this agreement, Iowa DOT will deploy multiple Kinetic Mobility modules including Events, […]
“A significant opportunity to deliver differently” – reactions to the Comprehensive Spending Review
The transport sector is reacting to the Government’s Spending Review, in which Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed to spending £24bn of capital funding to road maintenance between 2026 and 2030, Rachel Ellison, advisory and programme development managing director for UK and Europe at Mott MacDonald, has responded: “Plans to spend £113bn on infrastructure provides certainty to […]