RoadPeace announces Challenge 2024, to travel 1,766 miles together to honour road crash victims
Emergency services, safer roads partnerships, schools, businesses and communities will be running, cycling, walking or horse riding 1766 miles in May to raise awareness about the number of people killed in crashes on the UK’s roads. The UK-wide event – called the RoadPeace Challenge 2024 – will take place between 13 and 19 May to […]
More than 550 trees planted in Leeds gyratory scheme
Work in this winter’s planting season has seen 350 trees planted in the local community as part of the Armley Gyratory improvement scheme in Leeds. This is in addition to the 206 trees planted last year, making a total of 556 trees, which is well on the way to a Council target of planting over […]
Under-25s to be represented at future TfL senior meetings
Young people are being invited to help shape London’s future transport network as Transport for London commits to have representation of people under the age of 25 at senior meetings. From 21 February, a member of the TfL Youth Panel will actively represent the views of young Londoners at TfL’s quarterly Safety, Sustainability and Human […]
Intertraffic Amsterdam and SWARCO supporting start-ups
The huge Intertraffic event for highways and transport professionals in Amsterdam this April will be promoting industry start-ups, thanks to the support of one of the continent’s biggest multinational traffic firms, SWARCO. ITSUP is the exclusive platform for start-up exposure at Intertraffic Amsterdam, described by the organisers as tailor-made for startups to showcase their solutions […]
Bus Users UK launches its 2024 Manifesto
The body supporting bus passengers in the UK is calling for communities to be at the heart of transport planning with long-term, fully funded support for public, shared and active travel. It says, with the latest figures from the Department for Transport showing a mixed picture for UK bus services with bus mileage down and […]
JCT offers cut-price Symposium places to Early Careers Professionals
The organisers of the popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium are offering people new to the industry heavily discounted tickets to the event in September. The Symposium shares best practice in the signals industry through a programme of learned papers covering a range of topics including road safety, traffic management research, asset management and on-street intelligence, […]
Clearview webinar explains active travel solutions
The highways and transport solutions provider Clearview Intelligence is helping local authorities and their advisers understand ways of supporting the drive to active travel commuting by hosting a webinar on the subject this Thursday (15 February). The event, hosted by Head of Technical Sales Peter Cattell, will discuss how Clearview Intelligence can provide active travel behaviour […]
Research suggests hazard training for mobility scooter users “virtually non-existent”
The largest ever study of more than 250 motorised mobility scooter users by Nottingham Trent University is highlighting and identifying a core set of real-world hazards encountered by users and the strategies that users of all experience levels utilise to make their experience safer. Of those questioned, around 62% had not received any form of […]
Campaigners use Super Bowl to target Tesla for second year in a row
Two TV adverts broadcast during the Super Bowl in the US on Sunday have targetted Tesla’s self-driving technology, urging viewers to boycott the company and claiming that its vehicles are unsafe. The website The Hill reports the Dawn Project’s ads follow a 2023 Super Bowl ad campaign that featured what it claimed was an Autopilot-driven […]
National Highways publicises effect litter has on wildlife
National Highways and partners have teamed up in a new campaign to urge road users: ‘Lend a paw – bin your litter’ as the RSPCA reveals it has received over 10,000 reports of animals found injured, trapped or dead from discarded litter in last three years – numbering nearly ten per day. The government-owned company […]