Council votes on reopening high street
A council will vote this week on whether to reopen Chepstow high street to traffic after more than two years of closure. The road has been closed to traffic since June 2020, when Monmouthshire County Council decided to shut it to enable social distancing and support outdoor trading during the early days of Covid. The […]
Highways News UK Exclusive: New US report helps transport agencies cope with increasing cyber risk
With American public transport agencies being highly dependent on the services of vendors to help deliver and maintain critical technologies linked to everything they do, the vendor’s cybersecurity controls and protocols can leave transit agencies of all sizes vulnerable to cyber incidents. New research seen by Highways News called “Aligning the Transit Industry and Their […]
ITS European Congress report published
Many interesting topics were discussed at the 14th ITS European Congress in Toulouse. Organiser ERTICO – ITS Europe has now share the ITS Toulouse Post-Congress Report collated and edited by Prof Eric Sampson, which includes coverage of the five core topics. Read it here.
JCT Symposium delegates to enjoy biggest ever exhibition and packed paper programme
Sustainability, connectivity and active travel safety will be discussed in detail this September at the biggest JCT Traffic Signals symposium to date. A record number of exhibitors are attending the two-day event at Nottingham Trent University, with delegates promised a very high standard of presentations by industry leaders drawn from both suppliers and the public […]
TTF praises LCRIG Innovation Festival and pledges bigger presence next year
The Transport Technology Forum is committing to take advantage of the private road network available at LCRIG’s Innovation Festival to carry out live connected vehicle demonstrations at next year’s event. This year’s highly successful Festival, which took place earlier in the month at Newark Showground (pictured), saw TTF Manager Darren Capes chair several sessions while […]
Making the case for local roads on this week’s Highways Voices
“I have been talking about making the case for local roads for a number of years, so the fact that LCRIG sees that as at the heart of what it does is close to my heart,” says Paula Claytonsmith, the LCRIG’s new Director, Government and Strategy on this week’s Highways Voices. Subscribe to Highways Voices […]
ITS (UK) begins search for new CEO
The industry association for Intelligent Transport Systems professionals is recruiting a new leader, as Secretary General Jennie Martin retires after nearly a quarter of a century with the Society. Chair Ryan Hood of Arup is leading the search for a new Chief Executive Officer who will take over at the end of the year when […]
ITS (UK) promotes common standards use in joint webinar
Members of the UK’s Intelligent Transport Systems industry association have benefitted from a session explaining the value of standards and how they are deployed and used across the ITS and wider transport sector. The event, held jointly with RTIG, the Realtime Information Group, heard from the British Standards Institution, BSI, which explained how standardisation covers […]
Lanes Group wins Thames Water contract worth up to £1bn
Waste water utilities solutions company Lanes Group have been awarded a contract by Thames Water worth between £750 million and £1 billion over the next ten years, which will mean large amounts of work across the road network in and around London. In a LinkedIn post, Group Director Andy Brearly says the letter confirms delivery […]
London urged to introduce “tourist tax” to help fund TfL
The London Assembly has been urged to introduce a new tax on tourists to help fill Transport for London’s funding gap. Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics has told assembly members a tourist tax would be worth “hundreds of millions of pounds” per year – and suggested it could be used to […]