Amey welcomes employees as Area 12 contract goes live
The infrastructure, highways and public services provider Amey has welcomed more than 130 new starters as its Area 12 Maintenance and Response contract with Highways England goes live. The eight-year contract worth £22.5m a year was awarded to Amey on 1 December last year and sees it responsible for the network covering Yorkshire and Humberside, providing all routine and […]
ITS America CEO joins driverless advisory board
The President and CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America President, Shailen Bhatt, has been appointed to the advisory board of the driverless car company Aurora. Tech Crunch reports that the company, which bought Uber ATG last year, has “tapped experts in aviation safety, insurance, medicine and automotive safety — all people from outside […]
Researcher suggests banning cross-traffic turns
An American researcher is suggesting that cities could make traffic flow better and have fewer emissions if they reduced or eliminated turns across the flow of traffic, so in our case turning right. Vikash V Gayah, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Penn State University, points to logistics firm UPS which changed its routes in […]
Vodafone’s V2X trial goes live
A new mobility cloud platform designed to improve road user safety is being tested for the first time on the open road in the UK. Developed by Vodafone, Nokia and Chordant, with support from the UK Government Centre for Connected and Automated Vehicles and the Midlands Future Mobility consortium, the platform is providing digitally connected […]
E-scooter trial begins in London
A trial of e-scooters is getting underway in London today in an initiative that is hoped will reduce car travel. Three companies, Dott, Lime and Tier, have been approved to operate e-scooter trials in London. The trial lead at Transport for London, Helen Sharp, commented, “It’s clear that e-scooters could act as an innovative, greener […]
Aviva announces driverless pod trial
Aviva and Darwin Innovation Group are entering into a five-year strategic partnership, beginning with collaboration on an autonomous vehicle trial. Darwin is trialling an autonomous shuttle at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. Created by Navya, this vehicle, controlled by 5G and satellite connectivity, will be able to pick passengers up, transport them […]
Final push for £43 million M6 bridge project
Highways England’s work to construct a congestion-busting new bridge over the M6 at Knutsford in Cheshire is entering its final phase this month. The £43 million bridge is being built through the roundabout at junction 19 of the M6 providing links to the motorway and A556 and improving traffic flow. And after successful operations this […]
Bus depot in line to be Britain’s biggest EV charging hub
First Bus in Scotland is building the UK’s largest electric vehicle charging hub as it replaces half its fleet with electric buses in a depot in Scotland. The BBC reports that the programme to add 160 charging points at the Caledonia depot is expected to be completed in 2023 with the first 22 buses arriving […]
ITS (UK) Chair commits to Zero Carbon transport technology push
The Chair of the UK’s Intelligent Transport Society, Ryan Hood is committing the organisation will double-down on its commitment to decarbonisation, as he enters his second year in the role. Hood, who is Head of Digitisation of Transport at TRL, was re-elected at the ITS (UK) Annual General Meeting where he called on the industry […]
Amazon launches location rival to Google
Amazon’s web services division has launched a new service which it says will make it easier and more cost-effective for customers to add location functionality to their applications “without compromising on user privacy or data security”. Amazon Location Service allows customers to embed location functionality in their applications using data from Esri and HERE Technologies […]