Amey appoints Kamini Choudhry as new Business Director for Australian market
Amey has appointed Kamini Choudhry as Business Director for Australia. Choudhry returns to Amey to spearhead the company’s strategic growth in the region and support the integration of Amey’s newly acquired Australian Consultancy, Premise. As part of her new role, Choudhry will be responsible for driving Amey’s expansion in the Australian market and will focus […]
Oxfordshire: £3.2m Woodstock Road improvements complete
Residents and visitors along Woodstock Road in Oxford can enjoy enhanced public spaces and better conditions for cycling, walking and wheeling as £3.2 million of road safety and active travel improvements along Woodstock Road are now complete. The Oxfordshire County Council project, funded by the UK government’s Housing and Growth Deal, has delivered a series […]
Devon & Cornwall Police record 113 motorists speeding in St Austell
Devon & Cornwall Police recently carried out an operation in St Austell following concerns raised by the local community about dangerous driving in the area. Two police vans equipped with high-tech cameras were deployed to prime locations on roads with speed limits of 20, 30, 40 and 60mph. Neighbourhood police were joined by the road […]
Arriva Group appoints Martijn Gilbert as new Managing Director for UK Bus
Arriva Group has today announced the appointment of Martijn Gilbert as its new Managing Director for its Arriva UK Bus business unit, reporting to the Executive Chair, David Martin. Gilbert has an extensive background in UK passenger transport having held roles at Go-Ahead Group’s regional bus operator, Go North East and East Yorkshire, where he […]
ITS UK to host Tech Showcases at Labour and Conservative party conferences
ITS UK has announced that it will be hosting events at this year’s Labour and Conservative Party Conference for the first time. ITS UK will be running the Transport Tech Showcase, on the Monday evenings at the Labour and Conservative conferences, with the aim of bringing the intelligent transport sector to life for decision makers. Each Transport Tech Showcase will […]
SwRI completes CAV energy efficiency project
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has successfully completed its eight-year-long connected and automated vehicle technology project. As part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) NEXTCAR (NEXT-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles) program, SwRI developed an automated vehicle that combines CAV technology and SAE Level 4 automation to demonstrate up to 30% energy […]
TRL and World Bank announce HDM-5 to ‘revolutionise global road infrastructure planning’
TRL, in partnership with the World Bank, has announced the release of the next-generation Highway Development and Management Model (HDM-5), a vital upgrade to the world’s most widely adopted tool for road transport planning and investment evaluation. Since its inception in 1968, HDM has been a cornerstone analytical framework, supporting over 1,500 organisations across 100 […]
Glasgow gets tough: New speed camera installed near Silverburn shopping centre
A new fixed speed camera will begin operation in Glasgow this week at Barrhead Road in the Southside near Silverburn. Police Scotland said the camera has been introduced on the westbound carriageway of the road to help reduce injury collisions in the area. According to the force, there have been 10 injury collisions on the road’s westbound carriageway over a four-year […]
WJ Group unveils world’s first fully electric thermoplastic road marking truck
Road marking and highway safety services provider WJ Group has revealed what it believes to be the world’s first fully electric thermoplastic road marking truck, designed to boost sustainability in the highways industry while delivering a full shift on a single charge. The £500,000 investment, announced at the LGRIG Innovation Festival earlier this month, is […]
National Highways’ Dean Sporn to join Skanska as Operations Director of its infrastructure business
Skanska have appointed Dean Sporn as Operations Director of its infrastructure business. For the past eight years, Dean has worked in the Major Projects directorate at National Highways as Director of Enhancements. During his tenure, he has been responsible for multiple schemes including A417 Missing Link, M25 J10 and A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross. Prior […]