The UK’s head of roads policing talks enforcement technology, sentencing and different licences for new drivers on this week’s Highways Voices
“If I speak locally, in Sussex, we have a high number of cars, of sports cars, and bikers who come to visit the coast in the weekends, for example, and there’s little doubt that the communities through which they drive really do support average speed cameras and other safety cameras to assist them to reduce […]
Police roads chief wants tougher sentences to deter bad driving
The head of roads policing in the UK is calling for greater punishments for motoring offences to cut the number of people driving dangerously. Sussex Police Chief Constable Jo Shiner made the comments during an interview for this week’s Highways Voices podcast, to be published on Wednesday. She wants increased sentences, which both magistrates and […]
Chris Grayling on his experiences as Transport Secretary on this week’s Highways Voices
“Don’t try and talk to the politicians – the truth is actually having good relations with… politicians will have very little impact on the actual decisions government takes,” explains former Transport Secretary Chris Grayling on this week’s Highways Voices. He joined an ITS UK meeting last week and was interviewed by Highways Voices host Paul […]
Authorities given extra time to detail GLF and TSOG plans
The English combined and local authorities who shared £50 million of grants to fix traffic signals as part of the Government’s Plan for Drivers are getting an extra month to detail the schemes they intend to deliver. All eligible authorities received a share of £10m ‘automatic’ funding from the Traffic Signal Obsolescence Grant (TSOG), and […]
The future of mobility panel discussion with York, Staffordshire, LCRIG and SWARCO on this week’s Highways Voices
“A lot of our time is firefighting, fixing day to day problems, maybe some signal timings, but it’s hard to look into the future when we don’t have time,” admits City of York Council’s Sean Bulmer in a panel discussion at the SWARCO User Group meeting in Coventry, featured on this week’s Highways Voices. Mr […]
Clearview hails “fantastic” TTF conference, as record numbers confirmed
The sponsor of this year’s Transport Technology Forum Conference, Clearview Intelligence, has praised the organisation of the 2024 event, which saw nearly 350 people attend and discuss current and future trends in intelligent transport. The TTF is co-funded by the Department for Transport and Innovate UK. The SME’s Head of Technical Sales Peter Cattell (pictured) […]
Podcast delayed due to potential purdah issues
There will be no Highways Voices podcast this week because two of the guests joining the discussion are local government staff. Although what they say is not campaigning in any way, we are holding off publication until after tomorrow’s elections just in case anyone raises an issue with anything they say. We will publish on […]
New VESOS research for Transport Infrastructure Ireland confirms potential live-saving minutes could be saved by eCall
The specialist eCall consultancy and software company VESOS Solutions Ltd has completed research to evaluate the possible use of eCall data to generate incidents on the Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) road and motorway network, showing the technology can speed up response times after crashes. Four years of anonymised data collected by the country’s ECAS (Emergency […]
TTF Conference focusses on signals – live blog
The Transport Technology Forum is looking at the £70 million signals funding for English local authorities today (25 April). This includes the £50 million already allocated for the Traffic Signals Obsolescence Grant and Green Light Fund, and the bidding process for the Intelligent Traffic Management Fund. Follow our updates here: 10.00 The four main traffic […]
ITS World Congress 2027 host calls for UK industry engagement
Head of Transport Innovation at Transport for West Midlands, Chris Lane, has called on UK industry to get involved in the planning for the 2027 Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress to take place in the region. Birmingham is Preferred Host for the global event, and TfWM has already started work on delivery. With 15,000 people expected […]