Uber and HERE Technologies announce long-term collaboration
Location data and technology platform HERE Technologies and Uber have announced a long-term collaboration to enhance Uber’s mapping capabilities globally for rideshare and food deliveries. They say the agreement builds on HERE and Uber’s existing partnership and will help bring further advanced location-aware tools and functions to the Uber platform. HERE explains that, with millions […]
Hitex rebrands to SWARCO HITEX
Following its acquisition by Austrian multinational traffic company SWARCO in 2021, Hitex Traffic Safety has rebranded to SWARCO HITEX LTD, reflecting the name of parent company. The new company name will also see a change in packaging across the Hitex range of products, with new product branding being rolled out across 2024. The move will […]
Core Highways Group brings all subsidiaries together under one brand
Nationwide traffic management and associated highways services provider Core Highways Group is bringing all its subsidiaries together – rebranding as Core Highways, as it reveals a brand-new logo, website, colours and updated values. It says this strategic milestone sees Amberon, Barrier Services, Forest Traffic, JTM Signs and MLP Traffic come together as one, with 1,300 […]
ARTSM publishes new portable signals guidance
The Association for Road Traffic Safety and Management has issued new guidance for Portable Signals, with amendments to its previous version. Guidance for Portable Signals has been updated to Edition 1.1 with the new version available here. Among the changes are the removal of reference to sign 7011.2 for crossings within works and removal of […]
Clearview details road safety from a driver’s perspective
Transport technology, data and software company Clearview Intelligence is hosting the latest of its information-led webinars on 18 January, concentrating on how its roadside solutions support driver safety from the viewpoint of the road user. It will focus on the driver’s mindset for feeling safer on the roads, look at junction protection schemes and delineation. The […]
Scottish Government urged to halt LEZ introduction
There are calls for the Scottish Government to “pause and review” plans to introduce low emission zones in Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, as official figures show air quality levels are within legal limits in all three cities. The Scottish Mail on Sunday quotes Scotland’s transport spokesman Graham Simpson as saying: “The Scottish Government’s own data […]
Delivery drivers face fines for using Albert Bridge in London
Drivers of vehicles weighing more than three tonnes are being warned a weight restriction is now being enforced on Albert Bridge in West London, with fines for goods vehicles that exceed it. The current restriction, which has been in place since 2012, has been managed previously using width restriction posts to deter overweight vehicles entering […]
Cruise “offers $75,000” to resolve crash investigation in San Francisco
General Motors’ driverless subsidiary Cruise has offered to pay $75,000 (£59,000) to settle a dispute with the state over whether it misled regulators about the aftermath of crash involving one of its driverless cars. The San Francisco Standard reports that a document filed last Friday (5 January) seeking to defer an order on issues raised […]
Grid Smarter Cities predicts a “raft of innovation” following kerbside management report
Kerbside management company Grid Smarter Cities has welcomed the publication of a new report into how digitalisation could improve management and data integration of the kerbside, predicting it will help make the kerb a key enabler to achieving sustainable and inclusive infrastructure. The Department for Transport’s Kerbside Management Discovery research project looked at the current […]
Scottish Conservative leader criticises delays to A96 dualling plans
A year after the Scottish Government said it would reveal its plan for the under-threat A96 dualling project, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has called the delay “completely unacceptable”. The Inverness Courier newspaper says the outcome of the A96 Corridor Review had been promised to be published “by the end of 2022”, according to the […]