JCT Symposium to explore the balancing act behind one of Britain’s most complex tram junctions
How do you give priority to trams without causing unnecessary delays to buses, pedestrians and cyclists? That’s the challenge delegates at this year’s JCT Traffic Signals Symposium will hear has been tackled at one of the most operationally complex junctions on the West Midlands Metro network. Shane Collins, Smart Cities Sector Lead at 4way Consulting, […]
Could psychology solve transport problems that engineering can’t? Rory Sutherland asks the provocative questions on Highways Voices
As Highways Voices continues its summer series of archive editions, this week’s podcast revisits one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking presentations ever delivered at the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium. Advertising executive, behavioural scientist and author Rory Sutherland challenges transport professionals to stop thinking purely like engineers and economists and instead consider how psychology shapes […]
How digital kerbside management could reduce stress for freight drivers
New academic research is highlighting how uncertainty over finding legal loading space can contribute to stress among urban freight drivers, and has concluded that digital kerbside management has the potential to improve working conditions, traffic safety and the efficient use of limited road space. The peer-reviewed Swedish study, presented at the City Logistics 2025 conference […]
Limited opportunities remain for SMEs to join UK-European Pavilion at Gangneung Congress
A handful of places are still available for UK small and medium-sized enterprises looking to showcase their transport technology innovations on the global stage at this October’s ITS World Congress in Gangneung, South Korea. The UK presence will once again form part of the UK-Europe Pavilion, delivered through a partnership between the United Kingdom Government, […]
Clearview technology chosen again for Hindhead Tunnel renewal project
National Highways has re-selected Clearview Intelligence’s intelligent road stud technology to help keep drivers safe in the Hindhead Tunnel in Surrey as it carries out a major programme of maintenance at the site. Clearview’s Intelligent Road Studs have been chosen as part of a new generation of its proven lane guidance system within the tunnel, […]
AI and fresh thinking at the heart of new highways innovation hackathon
Highways professionals, software developers, researchers, students and communications specialists are being invited to work together to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing local roads at a new innovation hackathon in Northampton this September. The WNC Highways & Innovation Hackathon 2026, taking place on 8 September at the University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus, aims to […]
Birmingham joins National Parking Platform
Birmingham City Council has become the latest local authority to join the National Parking Platform (NPP), marking what the platform’s backers describe as another milestone in the expansion of the initiative designed to make parking payments simpler and more flexible for motorists. As one of the UK’s largest local authorities, Birmingham’s addition is being described […]
SWARCO urges local authorities to ask tougher questions before investing in digital twins
Local authorities are being urged to focus less on the technology behind digital twins and more on the practical problems they are trying to solve, in a new thought leadership article from intelligent transport solutions provider SWARCO. Written by John Pickworth, Managing Director of SWARCO UK & Ireland, the article argues that, as Government investment […]
Drivers warned not to rely on next-generation eCall before 2027 infrastructure upgrade
The Department for Transport has issued guidance warning motorists that Next Generation (NG) eCall systems fitted to many new cars and light commercial vehicles may not operate reliably until the UK’s telecommunications infrastructure has been upgraded by 31 March 2027. NG eCall has been introduced in most new cars and vans registered from 1 September […]
JCT looks back on three decades of innovation with ’30 Years: 30 Stories’ series
The founder of the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium, Brian Simmonite, had a simple ambition when he launched the event in 1996 – to create a forum where experienced traffic signal engineers could learn from each other, challenge ideas and return year after year. “The forum will consist of a series of short papers (presented by […]