Man climbs in speed camera to flash passing motorists with his phone
Yes, this really happened. A man has posted on Facebook a video of him squeezed into a speed camera in North Wales, flashing passing cars with the torch on his phone. John Westlake was on holiday in Towyn with his wife Sarah-Jane when he spotted the camera while waiting for a pizza. North Wales Live […]
India planning to replace toll plazas with GPS solution
The Indian Government is planning to announce its policy to replace toll plazas with a GPS-based solution, promising that plans will be published within three months. The Swarajya website reports that Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari says that the government will come out with a new policy, and that it is already talking […]
Lawyers analyse driverless liability in new report
An American law firm has analysed the question of liability when it comes to deaths involving driverless cars, but warns that it’s too early to say where blame lies in such crashes. Pittman, Dutton, Hellums, Bradley and Mann have written a report calling the issues “a complex web”, because often, an accident is not a […]
Hydrogen-fuelled bus trialled in Dublin
A new hydrogen fuel cell electric double-deck is being tested in Dublin. The vehicle will be trialled on a modified Dublin Bus route 9, driven to simulate real-driving conditions while examining emissions and energy efficiencies. An assessment of costs and infrastructural requirements will also be undertaken as part of the country’s Department of Transport’s Low […]
Leeds tenders for highways contractors
Leeds City Council has issued a tender for highway and civil engineering works contractors for schemes valued between £2 million and £7 million. Although the work is primarily within the Leeds district, it may extend across the other Yorkshire and Humberside Authorities. Work will be instructed on an as and when basis and the contract […]
ITS (UK) launches Early Careers Essay Competition for 2021
The UK’s Intelligent Transport Systems industry association, ITS (UK) has launched this year’s essay award competition for professionals in the early part of their careers. This year’s subject covers ITS solutions and innovations that will help to enable decarbonisation objectives and in particular solutions that do not exist at the moment. The competition is aimed […]
Virgin Hyperloop shows how it plans to change transport
The Virgin Hyperloop project has published a video showing how it aims to transport people at 670 miles per hour “comfortably, safely and quietly”. The company’s video says that its pods travelling in a near-vacuum environment will eliminate aerodynamic drag, with its proprietary magnetic levitation solution making it ten times more efficient that the world’s […]
Yunex Traffic rapid chargers at heart of new EV hub in Somerset
Yunex Traffic has installed and commissioned two rapid charging units for a new electric vehicle (EV) charging hub in Portishead, Somerset. Yunex, which is the new name for Siemens Mobility’s Intelligent Traffic Solutions business, worked with North Somerset Council to install two 50kW rapid DC charging units serving four parking bays, the hub forms part […]
Waymo welcomes first passengers in San Francisco
Google’s self-driving car division Waymo has announced it is starting a driverless car service in San Francisco called the Waymo One Trusted Tester Programme. It says Trusted Tester is a research-focused programme that, for the first time, will invite San Franciscans to actively help it shape the future of fully autonomous ride-hailing. “We’ve been driving […]
Children in London four times more likely to go to school in a polluted area
New analysis for the Mayor of London suggests that children in London are four times more likely to go to school in areas with high levels pollution levels that exceed World Health Organisation limits, than children in the rest of England. The City Hall report says this poor air quality stunts the growth of children’s lungs […]