Yunex: Why TOPAS standards matter more than ever
Yunex Traffic is backing the TOPAS campaign for local authorities to ensure they only use equipment on their highway networks that meets approved standards. Writing for Highways News, TOPAS’s Kealie Franklin wrote that: “It is not much of a stretch of the imagination to picture a local authority procurement officer faced with shrinking budgets, triumphantly […]
National Highways offers help for local firms to win Lower Thames Crossing work
National Highways has announced its “giving a helping hand” to businesses across Kent and Essex to win work on the Lower Thames Crossing, as six Supply Chain Roadshows get underway. Work starts on the crossing this year, and with at least £1 in every £3 from the construction budget due to be spent with small […]
SWARCO join calls for standards adherence
The Head of Product & Solutions SWARCO UK & Ireland has backed calls for the industry to insist on rigorous standards now, or risk “haemorrhaging money” later. Derek McLean is responding to an opinion piece written by TOPAS’s Kealie Franklin in Highways News, adding his voice to the the opinion that “standards are not optional, […]
From chaos to coordination: Malta’s roadworks reset on this week’s Highways Voices
Today on Highways Voices we hear how the island of Malta is embracing British technology to transform its transport, as we talk to Kurt Farrugia, the CEO of Transport Malta to find out what happens when uncoordinated road works, political pressure, and emergency recovery collide to lead to the use of a single platform to […]
TfL publishes draft Business Plan aimed at encouraging public transport and active travel
Transport for London has set out its new draft Business Plan, which it calls its :ambitious programme for the future of London’s transport network – building on huge progress made over the last decade, from launching the Night Tube and the Superloop to delivering the Elizabeth line, more than quadrupling Cycleways and building the largest […]
John Wootton remembered: “a mentor, champion, teacher and friend”
More than a hundred highways and transport industry professionals, from their early 20s to their 80s, have met in London to remember the life of industry great, Professor John Wootton CBE, who died last July, aged 88. The memorial lecture – called “Back to the Future” – remembered the founder of Wootton Jeffreys Consultants, first […]
Central government underfunding blamed for road flooding
Falls in funding for local authorities are being blamed for a rise in the number of roads being flooded, because councils cannot afford to clear storm drains before bad weather. The Telegraph reports The River Otter burst its banks in Devon on Tuesday morning as it swelled to a record 2.83 metres deep following heavy […]
Rees Jeffreys Road Fund sponsors World Congress “Curiosity Box” to inspire the next generation
The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund is giving a grant to the hosts of the 2027 Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in Birmingham to support their “Curiosity Box” they’ll showcase to Year 6 children in the run-up to, and at the event. A Curiosity Box is an established curriculum-linked STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) education resource, […]
Council reports 14% journey time improvement after MOVA installation
Highways managers in the city of Southend in Essex is reporting measurable improvements at a key junction in the city after the installation of MOVA technology at a set of traffic signals. The technology, which means traffic signals communicate with each other so flows are managed in response to demand as opposed to being based […]
Places filling up fast for Traffic Signs 2026
The Institute of Highway Engineers is reminding industry professionals that the IHE Traffic Signs Conference and Exhibition 2026, returns to Birmingham on 24 March and the full programme is officially live. This year’s theme, “Signs of Progress”, brings together experts from the Department for Transport, local authorities, consultants and industry to explore the future of […]