Amey presents paintings to celebrate street lighting works
Amey’s Edinburgh Street Lighting team have presented the City of Edinburgh Council with three hand paintings of the city scape to celebrate the completion of recent street lighting upgrades. The paintings which feature locations of where the street lighting works took place, are the creation of artist Sophie Hoggan, who has two sisters that both […]
Traffic management, modelling and the next gen connectivity on this week’s Highways Voices
Subscribe to Highways Voices free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode! In this Highways Voices we return to Amsterdam for more conversation from the exhibition floor of the huge Intertraffic event. We talk to the CEO of Yunex, Marcus Schlitt about the pace of change in the newly-branded company and then CEO […]
Rest and Be Thankful diversion owner gets £1m
It’s emerged nearly £1 million has been paid out to the owner of a diversion route used during the closure of the landslip prone A83 Rest and Be Thankful road in Scotland. The Press and Journal reports that total payments have been made over the last six years, with annual instalments being transferred to the […]
National Highways calls for professional drivers feedback
National Highways has launched an online professional driver community to gauge the views across the sector. The online community will be accessible via an app or web browser and has been created to allow professional drivers to share their views about England’s motorways and major A roads. Freda Rashdi Head of Customer Journeys at National […]
Roundabout in Cambridge made more accessible to all pedestrians
Changes have been made to a pedestrian crossing at the busy Addenbrooke’s roundabout in Cambridge to improve accessibility in the area. The traffic system has been using buttons which – like the majority of pedestrian traffic systems across the country – must be physically pushed to activate. However, this can be difficult to use for […]
Rees Jeffreys Road Fund announces Masters Bursary Scheme 22-23
The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Trustees havew announced they will be running a Transport Masters Bursary programme again for 2022-23. The Trustees are hoping to encourage more applications to study for a transport-related Masters – both from people who are new to the transport sector and people who are currently employed in the sector who […]
ITS Europe preliminary programme released
The ITS European Congress team has released the Preliminary Programme for next month’s Congress in Toulouse. The team at ERTICO – ITS Europe says it has worked hard on building a fantastic High-Level and Technical Programme, and that this preliminary programme includes details of all the activities and sessions that will take place at the MEETT Conference Centre in Toulouse from 30 […]
Hertz buying thousands of Polestar EVs to accelerate electric vehicle adoption
Car hire company Hertz is partnering with the Swedish electric carmaker Polestart in a deal which includes purchasing up to 65,000 electric vehicles over five years. Availability is expected to this spring in Europe and later in the year in North America and Australia. Hertz says the partnership is part of the company’s ongoing commitment […]
Yunex rolling out 3,000 sensors in Florida
Global intelligent traffic systems company Yunex Traffic has commenced the installation of nearly 3,000 controllers and the upgrade of the traffic detection infrastructure in Miami-Dade County in Florida. This follows the company’s recent deployment of its TACTICS™ central traffic control system, a major milestone in Miami-Dade County’s seven-year traffic management upgrade, one of the largest […]
Transport Secretary cracks down on drug-driving
Drug-drivers could be required to undertake rehabilitation courses before being allowed back behind the wheel, under new plans by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and the Department for Transport. Drink-drive related deaths and injuries are now very rare on UK roads, with deaths having fallen 88% between 1979 and 2015. However, there has been an increase […]