Jacobs to Provide Strategic Planning and Advisory Services to Ireland’s National Transport Authority
Consultant Jacobs has announced it has won a contract to provide strategic planning and advisory services to Ireland’s National Transport Authority. The authority is currently developing and implementing what it calls high quality, sustainable, accessible transport infrastructure and services across the nation. The NTA has re-appointed Jacobs to provide strategic support with the development of […]
UK Road Tunnel Operators Forum meets in London
More than 200 delegates and 20 exhibitors are meeting in London at this year’s Road Tunnel operators forum annual conference. The event, sponsored by VVB and LBA at the Institution of Civil Engineers today (7 Feb) and tomorrow (8 Feb) hears from speakers from National Highways, TfL, maintainers, operators, designers, technology suppliers and contractors. They will […]
Research suggests gap in AI adoption and sustainability goals across transport and logistics industries
Location data and technology platform HERE has unveiled insights from its latest global ‘On the Move’ survey developed in part with Amazon Web Services. The survey has found what researchers call a significant gap in the adoption of basic data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with a lack of sustainability goals and progress toward […]
Council to put in barriers at top of steps after sat nav errors
Edinburgh Council is to install temporary barriers at the top of a set of steps after sat-nav errors have sent a spate of drivers down them. Sky News reports motorists have followed navigation devices down Greenside Lane, northeast of Edinburgh Waverley station, despite the slope (pictured) being replaced by steps last year. City of Edinburgh […]
Residents support Hampshire’s Cart and Horses junction improvements
Hampshire County Council has revealed residents have reacted positively to designs for potential improvements for the Cart and Horses junction on the A33 and B3047 near Winchester. However the council making clear that progressing an improvement scheme in the village of Kings Worthy is reliant on a decision by central Government. In response to concerns […]
AtkinsRéalis reawarded National Highways technology programmes contract
Professional services and project management company AtkinsRéalis has been appointed by National Highways to support delivery of its major technology programmes including the UK’s Digital Roads Strategy. AtkinsRéalis will work with National Highways to implement, manage and drive change of digital and technology programmes across England’s strategic road network. The Technology Programmes Strategic Resources Contract […]
Local Authorities updated on signals funding process
The Transport Technology Forum has updated local authorities waiting to hear if their applications for a share of £40 million of new money to make traffic signals more efficient have been successful. As part of the Department for Transport’s Plan for Drivers, announced by Secretary of State Mark Harper last October, the money is being […]
Lords call for “rapid recharge” in EV strategy
The Environment and Climate Change Committee of the House of Lords has published its report ‘EV strategy: rapid recharge needed’. It says progress in EV take-up is not happening fast enough, and major barriers remain. In the report it points out EVs make up about only three per cent of all cars currently on UK […]
London’s first bookable kerbside management scheme launches
Kerbside management company Grid Smarter Cities has announced that a new project allowing companies to book space at two loading bays is now live in partnership with Southwark Council. The bays across two areas of Walworth Road will be managed via the Kerb Platform to support the loading and unloading activity of local businesses and […]
Police collaborate on abnormal load movement
Seven police forces in the East have teamed up with the Metropolitan Police in an effort to coordinate the movement of abnormal loads through their counties, and to the edge of the capital, making it easier for hauliers to plan their journey movements outside of embargoed times. The borders between the forces, Essex, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, […]