Sopra Steria upgrades London’s incident management system
Consulting and IT services company Sopra Steria has announced it has developed new software to upgrade Transport for London’s incident management system. The new system developed with TfL is designed to help controllers quickly identify incidents and resolve them by providing a single, unified view of London’s roads for the first time. The software generates […]
London Councils reviews parking and traffic penalty charges
London Councils has begun consulting on the level of penalty charges for parking and traffic contraventions on roads controlled by all London boroughs, including the City of London. The consultation on penalty charge levels relating to parking and traffic enforcement and other additional fees relating to parking, and will run for 12 weeks. The committee […]
National Highways tenders for £7.5m technical surveys and testing contracts
National Highways is ooking to procure up to six Contractors to deliver structural surveys. There will be six lots in total, one for each of its six regions, with a total value for all six lots of £7,500,000. Tenderers may win a maximum of two lots, subject to award rules. The successful Contractors will deliver […]
Business Secretary looking at changing new EV rules
The Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch is reported to be pushing cabinet colleagues to water down net zero rules on electric vehicles that are due to come into force in January. From next year, 22% of vehicles sold by manufacturers in the UK must be zero emission models which are totally electric. They’ll be fined £15,000 […]
North East gets new funding for hydrogen transport
The Government says airports and supermarket deliveries could become greener and more efficient, thanks to an £8 million competition to support hydrogen-powered transport in the North East, grow the economy and create jobs. The Transport Secretary hasannounced two winning projects of the second phase of the competition, encouraging more businesses and innovators to develop new […]
Police spot hundreds of suspected seatbelt and mobile phone offences using Acusensus AI solution
A focused week of action by roads policing officers has led to nearly 500 suspected driving offences being identified, with the help of an AI-equipped camera van from enforcement technology company Acusensus. The Joint Operations Roads Policing Unit of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary and Thames Valley Police were targeting commercial vehiclesas part of […]
Causeway Technologies acquires one.network from Bridgepoint
Construction technology provider Causeway Technologies, backed by Five Arrows, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire one.network, the world’s leading digital road management platform from private equity firm Bridgepoint. The one.network platform enables highways authorities, utilities companies and contractors to plan, coordinate and communicate work zones by enabling cross-sector collaboration and seamless public engagement. […]
Jailed Dartford protestors lose appeal
Two activists jailed for a protest which closed the QE2 Bridge at the Dartford Crossing for 37 hours last October have lost their bid to have their sentences reduced. Just Stop Oil activists Morgan Trowland, 40, and Marcus Decker, 34, used ropes and other climbing equipment to scale the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which links […]
Scotland’s Transport Secretary “resolutely committed” to A9 dualling
Scotland’s Transport Secretary Màiri McAllan has again stressed that the country’s government remains “resolutely committed to dualling the A9 between Perth and Inverness”. The Inverness Courier has seen a letter to the A9 Dual Action Group campaigner Laura Hansler, in which she repeated her thanks to have been given the opportunity at The Inverness Courier […]
Drivers complain about Dart Charge issues
People trying to pay the Dartford Crossing charge have taken to social media to complain about the inability to do so, after a system changeover took longer than expected. The contract for managing the payment process passed to Conduent over the weekend as former contract provider Emovis moves to handling only the penalty charge notices. […]