Project Endeavour concludes in London
The Project Endeavour driverless car pilot has concluded its multi-city demonstration of autonomous vehicle services with a final on-road trial in Greenwich, in which members of the public were able to ride in one of six Ford Mondeo vehicles integrated with Oxbotica’s autonomy software platform. After COVID-19 restrictions prevented public involvement in the earlier Oxford […]
Council says investment in gritters ensures county is “well prepared for winter”
North Yorkshire’s County Council says keeping its vast roads network moving for residents and businesses is a high priority, and so it has invested almost £2.2m in 18 new gritters to replace some of the vehicles in its fleet of 80 gritters. Cllr Don Mackenzie, Executive Member for Access, said, “We fully understand how important […]
Enterprise invests £55m to expand UK traffic management fleet
One of the country’s largest commercial vehicle rental companies, Enterprise Flex-E-Rent, is investing £55 million in 200 new HGV and LCV traffic management vehicles in the UK. It says the newly extended fleet will support ever-growing demand from the road infrastructure sector for commercial vehicle hire. It is available for both daily and long-term flexible […]
Waze cutting food waste with new info on app
The crowd-sourced traffic information app Waze is testing a new initiative in America to reduce the amount of food restaurants throw away. Its Too Good To Go partnership involves bringing together Waze’s navigation expertise with anti-food waste group Too Good To Go’s to create what it calls “a greener planet to ultimately empower users to […]
American city curbs speeding drivers on residential street by using “rest in red” solution
A city in the American state of New Mexico has introduced a new way of reducing the amount of speeding vehicles and subsequent crashes at traffic lights by introducing what’s called a “rest in red” solution. Cars travelling along Coal Avenue and Lead Avenue in Albuquerque leave the lights on red until a car starts […]
LCRIG takes on TTF secretariat role
The Local Council Roads Innovation Group and the Transport Technology Forum have announced a new partnership to promote best practice, collaboration and innovation across the sector. Both groups already work closely together, but this new agreement means that the respective audiences will benefit from closer alignment across several activities including events, guidance, briefings, communications and […]
Winners of National Highways competition to help wipe out graffiti are revealed
Wall-climbing robots, acoustic sensors and laser technology are among the pioneering ideas which could help write off graffiti from alongside National Highways roads in the future. National Highways says it is “is on a mission” to tackle the blight of graffiti by finding new products to remove graffiti but also potential solutions that will prevent […]
Blackpool Council installs its first TRUGRD STREAM CCTV-Radar detector
Blackpool Council’s moto is ‘Progress’, and technology supplier Smart Video and Sensing says the town is living up to that by installing its first smartmicro TRUGRD STREAM combined radar-CCTV solution. The device has been place at the junction of Queens Square and the A584 Promenade for traffic management and data collection purposes. The installation, at […]
New EV project in Lambeth aims to address inequality
The London Borough of Lambeth has announced it has worked with electric vehicle charging company Connected Kerb in a first-of-its-kind project to demonstrate how affordable and accessible public EV charging infrastructure can be deployed to tackle EV inequality and drive greater EV adoption amongst communities traditionally under-represented in the EV transition. While EV ownership increases, […]
AVs “will have bigger impact than EVs” – Mobileye
The Vice President for Mobility as a Service at technology company Mobileye is predicting that autonomous vehicles will give the world back 800 billion hours of wasted hours per year and that self-driving vehicles will have a bigger impact on the future of mobility than the transformation to electric vehicles. Johann Jungwirth says that with […]