Colas wins three prestigious environmental awards
Civil engineering and transport infrastructure company Colas is has won three Green Apple Environment Awards at a ceremony in central London. Two National Silver accolades were awarded to Colas for their environmental and ecological mitigation work on the Humber Bank Link Road project in Grimsby, and their ‘Retread’ process which reduces the potential carbon impact […]
London’s transport network facing “managed decline”
There’s a warning that transport network is headed for “managed decline” to echo the 1970s if central government refuses to fill a growing funding black hole. London’s financial paper City AM reports that late on Wednesday evening, TfL’s finance committee published the “bleakest assessment yet” of the future of London’s public transport network, outlining an […]
Think individual, not average – this week’s Highways Voices podcast
In this week’s Highways Voices podcast, two of the UK’s leading experts on the behaviour of people while travelling urge engineers to redefine how they measure a successful transport system. Rory Sutherland and Pete Dyson have written a book “Transport for Humans – Are We Nearly There Yet”, in which they write how engineers plan […]
National Highways says its A46 road scheme stands out a green mile
National Highways has given details about its environmentally-friendly improvements to the A46 Warwick bypass where contractors cut carbon footprint by 23% by recycling materials from the old road. It says 17,432 tons of material were reused from the layers of road surface and saved from landfill as well as helping to make the road much […]
Siemens chooses five bidders for Yunex division
A German newspaper is reporting that Siemens has chosen five bidders for its mobility division Yunex Traffic and given them until just before Christmas to make an offer. Reuters has picked up on the Handelsblatt report which suggests the five bidders are Cubic, belonging to Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital; Italian toll operator Autostrade; […]
Kontron and Hailo partner to launch high-performance edge AI inference solutions
IoT/Embedded Computing Technology provider Kontron has announced it has forged a strategic technology partnership with leading AI chipmaker Hailo to offer next generation AI edge inference solutions. The companies say the advanced Hailo-8™ AI processor, performing at 26 tera-operations per second (TOPS) at a typical power consumption of less than 2.5 watts, enables edge devices […]
Roads Industry Forum issues statement on name change
The organisation formally known as the Highways Industry Alliance has issued a statement about its name change to the Road Industry Forum. The full text is below: You may recall some two years back hearing about the Highways Industry Alliance, a group of like minded bodies, associations and institutions who wanted to share their knowledge and understand […]
Behavioural scientists urge transport planners to think of individuals, not the average
Two of the UK’s leading experts on the behaviour of people while travelling are urging engineers to redefine how they measure a successful transport system. Rory Sutherland and Pete Dyson have written a book “Transport for Humans – Are We Nearly There Yet” which they discuss on this week’s Highways Voices podcast, to be published […]
How turning travel into a game increases walking and cycling
A new report into an experiment to increase active travel has explained how making it a game in one London borough increased the number of people walking and cycling. Website The Conversation has published an article about gamification in Hounslow in 2019, where people were offered points, badges, prizes or spots on a leaderboard in […]
New campaign to shine a light on how the TravelSafe Partnership keeps the travelling public safe
A new campaign has been launched highlighting how the TravelSafe Partnership is working to keep Greater Manchester’s travelling public safe. The partnership is jointly led by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Greater Manchester Police, with support from operators, local authorities and British Transport Police. The campaign will shine a light on the work of […]