Latest TTF data suggests potential watershed in traffic flows
Analysis of traffic flows across more than a hundred English local authority areas which cover cities, towns and rural areas suggests that last week could be the last without a morning traffic peak across the nation, even though average levels were still well below what they were pre-lockdown. The Transport Technology Forum gathers data from […]
Telent extends TfL contract
Technology and network services company Telent has extended its Traffic Control Maintenance contract with Transport for London by a year. It’ll continue to supply, install and maintain more than 3,000 traffic control assets for TfL, including traffic signals, Variable Message Signs and Over-height Vehicle Detection systems. Since it took on the contract in 2014, Telent […]
LCRIG launches webinar series
The Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) is to provide a series of webinars to knowledge share in the industry, starting with one concentrating on collaborative procurement. Working alongside the Transport Technology Forum and Crown Commercial Service the event on 1 October will concentrate on delivering innovation. Entitled ‘Delivering innovation through collaborative procurement’, the webinar […]
Amazon sets up new driverless team in Cambridge
Amazon’s setting up a new team in Cambridge to work on its Scout delivery pods. Amazon Scout deliveries already happen in America, taking deliveries at walking pace to a customer’s door, while similar autonomous vehicles have been trialled in Milton Keynes. The new engineers will work alongside specialists who’re developing drone deliveries and new features […]
More than 200 sign up for JCT Symposium in just four days
This year’s online JCT Traffic Signals Symposium is on course to deliver a record number of delegates for the event as more than two hundred people signed up to take part in just the first four days of registration. The popular event will be held online on 22 and 23 September because a physical event […]
AppyWay launches £20m funding round
Kerbside management and smart parking firm AppyWay has announced a £20 million Series B funding round to support the growth of the business. AppyWay’s solution “digitises the kerb” and is designed to address issues around parking, ease congestion to create more efficient cities. It is now planning to invest in data capture and improving parking […]
Rural autonomous pod service launched in France
The driverless pod maker Navya is trialling a new service connecting a railway station in the Drome region with a village three miles away. The shuttle, from Crest station to Ecosite du Val de Drome will be the first to run in a rural area on roads open to normal traffic. The shuttle will serve […]
Scots “face wait” for e-scooter trials
There are legal obstacles holding up attempts to trial e-scooters in Scotland, despite them now being legal in certain areas of England. The Scotland on Sunday newspaper reports that a “more lengthy approval process north of the Border” means it is uncertain when Scotland will be able to take part. During the English trials electric […]
Free travel considered to bring people back to Central London
Visitors into the middle of London could get their first journey free in an attempt to stimulate demand for travel in the capital again. ITV reports that The First Ride Free scheme, deemed the public travel equivalent to the Eat Out to Help Out initiative rolled out nationwide during August, is being considered by Transport […]
Government urged to stress overall transport risks, not just Covid
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is being urged to give the public all the details of risks of travel by road compared to public transport, rather than just concentrating on potential issues around Coronavirus. The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety has written to him warning that, while road traffic is now almost back to pre-lockdown […]