Road Safety: A new supercar for Merseyside Police
Senior officers from Merseyside Police’s Matrix have taken delivery of a new supercar to help the roads policing team in their ongoing work to promote road safety. The new car, an Alpine A110 GT, has been loaned to the force for a year, and is custom branded in police livery. It will be used at […]
Gender Inequality: Women in Transport urges UK to improve ESG Focus
Women in Transport has published its Equity Index 2023 Report*, that lays bare the gender disparities within the UK transport sector. This groundbreaking report reveals the realities women face and calls for urgent action to break down systemic barriers and forge a path towards a truly inclusive and equitable industry. The launch event also signifies […]
Latest technology is having “a real impact” on road building, says National Highways
New technology has been trialled by National Highways that will speed up road construction and improve safety. The first-of-a-kind technology takes the ‘guesswork’ out of compaction making sure the heavy plant gets the job done first time ensuring safe and durable foundations in road building. As part of a commitment to developing and promoting Connected […]
Reading pedestrians to benefit from new dropped kerbs and handrails
Reading Borough Council has begun a series of improvements across the borough that will see an additional 35 pedestrian dropped kerb crossing facilities with tactile paving at residential road junctions, and 24 new handrails installed to benefit pedestrians. The investment totals £480,000 and comes from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) which sees developers pay a […]
Transport Committee to quiz industry experts on how data can innovate logistics and freight
The Transport Committee will explore technological innovations in the freight and logistics industries powered by more sophisticated use of data in a televised event tomorrow, Wednesday 13 March. The cross-party Committee’s inquiry is looking at examples of data innovations, and how they came to fruition, to make policy recommendations to Government on how it can […]
M25 Closures: Drivers told to “ignore sat-navs”
An “unprecedented” closure of the M25 in Surrey has led to a plea to drivers to follow diversions and ignore their sat-navs. The M25 will close from Friday night until Monday morning between junction 10 for Guildford and junction 11 for Chertsey. Jonathan Wade, National Highways’ project lead, said a previous closure of the A3 […]
Powys: Motorists braced for 2-hour roadworks diversion
WORK to repair a 1-kilometre section of road in Powys will see some motorists face a diversion of around 2 hours, and force them to travel an extra 60 miles. The Powys County Times says that work on the section of the A40 trunk road in south Powys will commence on Tuesday night, March 12, […]
Budget “a missed opportunity to help consumers”, says SMMT
Jeremy Hunt’s (pictured) Spring Budget represents a missed opportunity to jumpstart the mass EV transition amid slowing demand for privately bought EVs. After consumer confidence in the EV transition was damaged by last September’s mixed public messaging, and with manufacturers now under an ambitious mandate to sell growing proportions of electric vehicles, the industry was […]
Swarm Data: The end of the traffic jam?
Connected devices are fast becoming more entwined with our lives and habits. Our phones were first, with appliances following. Now, it’s the turn of the car, says Wired magazine, Audi has its own vision for a Connected Car – a smart vehicle designed to bridge the gap between the driver and the connected world. Part […]
Development Consent Order approved
Plans to upgrade the A66 route between Penrith and Scotch Corner were today (7 March 2024) given the go-ahead by the Secretary of State for Transport. The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project, which is a key part of the government’s £24 billion investment into roads, will transform journeys along the A66 in the North of England. […]