JLR outlines electric strategy
Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has explained how it plans to become an all-electric luxury brand, by launching six electric vehicles in the next five years. ZDNet reports the company is going to use its parent Tata’s “wide reach in software, IT, communications and engineering to reimagine Jaguar Land Rover”. Jaguar Land Rover CEO Thierry Bolloré […]
Plans to build electric “gigafactory” in Coventry
A huge new “gigafactory” making batteries for electric vehicles could be built at Coventry Airport. Multiple reports say the site has been picked by the West Midlands Combined Authority and now Coventry City Council is working with the airport’s owners to submit a planning application for the site to be used for battery manufacturing. It […]
ITS (UK) urges prompt payment for SMEs
The UK’s Intelligent Transport Society, ITS (UK), is issuing a call for all major companies to honour the payment terms with their SME suppliers. The plea follows comments from a number of ITS (UK)’s smaller members who have described how they have had to wait more than four times the agreed 30 days to receive […]
Australian mining company retrofits driverless car
Australian mining group Fortescue Metals has turned four Ford Ranger SUVs into driverless vehicles. Working with Ford Australia, the vehicles have been retrofitted with an on-board vehicle automation system to support the driverless equipment transfer service, which Fortescue says will improve efficiency and safety by enabling team members to spend more time on maintaining assets. […]
Siemens ITS “renaming as Yunex Traffic”
It’s reported that the intelligent transport systems division of Siemens is to be renamed Yunex Traffic. Reuters says the German engineering company is pressing ahead with plans to “carve out the signalling business ahead of a potential sale”. The report adds that the business, which operates in more than 40 countries and has annual revenue […]
FREEtheMIBS appoints advisory board
The American campaign encouraging traffic signal controller and ITS device manufacturing standards has announced the formation of its advisory board to push forward its case. The FREEtheMIBS campaign wants manufacturers and public sector agencies to unite behind opening and sharing device NTCIP protocols – specifically, management information bases (MIBs). They say all the board members […]
Trip count and journey length up during Lockdown Three – TTF
Latest analysis of traffic data from more than a hundred local authority areas across England suggests that levels in Lockdown Three have been up to ten percentage points higher than they were in the first lockdown last March. Traffic is now at up to 45% below pre lockdown levels, whereas the lowest in Lockdown One […]
HE referred to CPS over smart motorway death
A coroner has ruled that Highways England should be investigated over possible corporate manslaughter charges relating to a woman’s death on a smart motorway in South Yorkshire. 62 year old Nargis Begum from Sheffield died on the M1 after her car broke down on a stretch with no hard shoulder and her car was hit […]
Zwings expands e-scooter operations in Newcastle-under-Lyme
One of Britain’s leading e-scooter rental scheme operators, Zwings, is working with Staffordshire County Council and Amey to provide a critical travel alternative for essential trips over the lockdown period by expanding e-scooter operations to Chesterton, Porthill, May Bank, Wolstanton and Lymedale Business Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The company says the third lockdown has shown a […]
Germany closer to approving Level 4 autonomy
The German government has announced it has cleared the way in cabinet to draft autonomous driving laws which would see the country be the first in the world to regulate Level 4 autonomy. Level 4 is considered to be fully autonomous driving, although a human driver can still request control, and the car still has […]