London’s cycle hire scheme sees record-breaking 2022
Transport for London has released data on the use of the Santander Cycles hire scheme in 2022, that shows that the scheme experienced another record-breaking year, with 11,506,889 hires. This is 565,625 hires more than were made in 2021, which was also a record-breaking year for the scheme. TfL says Santander Cycles plays a “hugely […]
Scottish Government urged to copy England and cap bus fares
The Scottish Labour party is urging the country’s devolved administration to follow the Westminster government’s lead in England, and cap bus fares to £2. The BBC says it’s pointing to Transport Scotland statistics showing fares in Scotland have increased by 6% in real terms over the last five years, compared with a UK-wide rise of […]
M25-A3 junction work moves to next stage
National Highways teams are starting the next stage in upgrade work on Junction 10 of the M25, as they work on widening the motorway and introducing free-flowing slip roads. Its introducing narrow lanes and a reduced speed limit on the A3 on both sides of the junction, and the M25 as it passes through junction […]
Motorist fined for ignoring variable speed limit
In an example of what can happen when people ignore speed limits on smart motorways, a motorist has been told to pay more than £2,000 and been given points on his driving licence after pleading guilty to ignoring a variable speed limit and travelling twice the speed restriction set on the smart motorway in Northamptonshire. […]
Lancashire County Council details new Jenoptik-supplied speed camera installation
Lancashire County Council has announced that the New Year is seeing progress resume on a major project to install average speed cameras on the county’s five highest-risk A-roads. The Safer Road Fund programme is a £7.9m investment to reduce casualties on routes identified by the Department for Transport as the county’s historically most dangerous A-roads. […]
eCall analysis start-up VESOS recognised by leading vehicle magazine
The start-up eCall consultancy and solutions company VESOS has been praised by the trade magazine Autocar for the development of software that slashes the time it takes for the emergency services to be alerted to crashes on our roads. The Autocar Drivers of Change award described the VESOS TeCall platform as a “pioneering idea that […]
TTF Conference returns in April, with fully-funded places for Local Authority delegates
The extremely popular Transport Technology Forum conference will take place this year at the Hilton Hotel in Leeds from 25 – 27 April. Following the highly successful event in Liverpool last May, which was oversubscribed with delegates due to the quality of its content and networking opportunities, a larger venue has been secured for this […]
Innovative software set to make narrow country lanes safer and less stressful for all
In March 2022, the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Trustees announced the joint winners of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund 150 Competition. One of the Competition winners, Eloy, is building a service that could solve a problem long faced by rural road users and eventually be scaled across the network. Nine months on, the Trustees are […]
Scottish motorists “missing out” on pothole compensation
It’s being claimed drivers in Scotland are suffering a “postcode lottery” of compensation for damage caused by potholes. The Herald Newspaper has seen statistics showing just one in six claims for damage was compensated in the country last year. The paper says 15.76% of pothole claims were paid out in 2021-22, amounting to £274,254.01. The […]
American city building country’s largest IoT smart city network
Smart 3D infrastructure solutions company Seoul Robotics has announced it will expand its partnership with the Chattanooga Department of Innovation Delivery and Performance, and the Center of Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the smart city and urbanisation research centre, to deliver 86 new smart city intersections – the […]