Hampshire: Council could leave regional public transport scheme
Three local authorities have urged a county council to remain in a partnership designed to improve transport across the Solent area. Solent Transport is a coalition of Southampton, Portsmouth and Isle ofWight unitary authorities and Hampshire County Council. The partnership has secured £150m of funding over the last decade but Hampshire has been recommended to […]
CVC agrees to acquire M Group Services from PAI Partners
CVC, one of the world’s leading private equity firms, is pleased to announce the acquisition of M Group Services, the UK’s largest provider of essential infrastructure services and solutions. CVC Fund IX will acquire the business from PAI Partners, a pre-eminent private equity firm. The transaction is expected to complete in Q3 2024. Headquartered in […]
London brace itself for bus strikes as 1,600 London United drivers ballot
Around 1,600 London United bus drivers are being balloted for strike action over pay and other issues, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today. The drivers, based at seven garages providing services across South, West and Central London, are in dispute over pay and other issues. They have rejected a four per cent pay offer, […]
INRIX signs deal to license High-Frequency OEM Connected Vehicle Data
INRIX have announce the addition of the largest high-frequency, high-volume OEM Connected Vehicle dataset on the market to its already expansive data lake. This is the latest of four new data source agreements for INRIX in the last year, including data from connected vehicles, mobile devices, and shared mobility. Says Ahmed Darrat, INRIX Chief Product […]
TfL to double wildflower verges on road network
TfL are realising their pledge to increase biodiversity, mitigate climate change and become more sustainable in its operations by increasing the amount of wildflower verges on its network’s roadsides and has doubled the area managed in this way to more than 260,000m2 in 2024. The sites are managed to promote biodiversity by reducing mowing frequency to allow […]
Uber and Aurora announce driverless truck deal
Uber’s freight hauling business will use Aurora’s driverless trucks on routes between Dallas and Houston as part of a new “long-term” deal that builds on a three-year-old commercial pilot. Uber Freight will be one of Aurora’s first customers on the Texas route launching later this year. Launched in 2017, Uber Freight connects truck drivers with shippers, much in […]
San Francisco: No more waiting list for Waymo’s self-driving taxis available
Waymo’s self-driving taxis are now available for everyone in San Francisco. The company, owned by Google parent Alphabet, hailed the breakthrough as a “key milestone” in its effort to scale its operations. Until now, says IoT World Today, anyone wishing to ride in Waymo’s autonomous Jaguar I-Pace SUVs in the city had to sign up […]
Stagecoach orders record 244 next-generation e-buses from Alexander Dennis
Alexander Dennis has taken a firm order from transport group Stagecoach for 244 of its next-generation zero-emission buses, the company’s largest zero-emission order to date. Stagecoach supported numerous local authorities across England in successful bids to the second round of the UK Government’s Zero-Emission Regional Bus Areas scheme (ZEBRA 2). Following the funding award, the group […]
Holman wins £16m National Highways fleet management contract
Holman UK has been awarded a £16 million fleet management and maintenance contract by National Highways. The new three-year deal, which goes live today, comes after National Highways’ previous fleet management provider, Rivus Fleet Solutions, called in the administrators on Friday (June 21). The tender decision for the 1,300 strong fleet was published on Wednesday, June 19, says Fleet News. […]
Q-Free announces release of Kinetic Weather Module
Q-Free have released Kinetic Weather, the latest module created as part of the company’s Kinetic® Mobility platform. The module enables weather-responsive traffic management by gathering and tracking data from weather stations on potentially unsafe roadway conditions including pavement conditions (ice, water temperature, etc.) rain, windspeed and direction, visibility, and more. The module alerts traffic managers in […]