Return of the morning peak? TTF digest suggests big rise in 8-9am traffic
Latest data collated by the Transport Technology Forum suggests that traffic levels at morning rush hour grew significantly in the week beginning 29 June compared to weeks before. Furthermore, observed hourly traffic levels were at their highest level since lockdown for 23 out of the 24 hours in the day. The report says that, although […]
Highways England and Loughborough Uni in AV research project
Loughborough University scientists are to work with Highways England in a £1 million project aimed at ensuring the country’s motorways can accommodate connected and autonomous vehicles vehicles. Researchers will look at operations at roadworks, lane changing, junction manoeuvres and lane markings to understand the challenges CAVs may face. The project, named CAVIAR (Connected and Autonomous […]
British Gas goes electric
British Gas has ordered a thousand all-electric Vivaro-e vans from Vauxhall in what’s said to be the largest commercial battery electric vehicle ever in the UK. The vans will arrive over the next 12 months and be rolled out nationwide across the British Gas engineer workforce. Centrica, owner of British Gas, has committed to electrifying […]
West Mids offers organisations free bike parking
Transport for West Midlands has launched Cycle Parking for Organisations supported by Park That Bike scheme to help organisations across the region with free cycle parking. The scheme aims to encourage more cycling and people to use their bikes to get around by offering to deliver free bike racks to up to 100 businesses, health establishments and community organisations. Applicants […]
Nottinghamshire commits to major highways investment
£55 million is being pumped into Nottinghamshire’s highways and transport network over the next year to improve roads, introduce integrated transport schemes and update traffic management. The investment is made up of £54.6m from capital and £0.97m from revenue funding and works included within the programme are comprised of councillor, stakeholder and community suggestions. Councillor […]
Highway Care merges businesses to form Highways Division
Road safety and security company Highway Care is merging its Road Barriers and Mobile Traffic businesses to form a Highways division to focus on the hire, sale, and turnkey provision of solutions and services for the highways and traffic market. The new division of the Kent-based company will include temporary barriers and permanent barriers, terminals, […]
Boris calls for driverless tube trains
Boris Johnson says any future government bailout of Transport for London should come on the condition that it reduces its reliance on human drivers on the tube network. City AM reports that the Prime Minister told journalists that trains can be run without somebody sitting in the driver’s cab all the time. “So what I […]
Oldham granted £6m to improve transport infrastructure
The borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester’s been granted a total of more than £6 million to fund essential work on bridges and other parts of its infrastructure. Nearly £4.2 million will be spent to ensure the Waterloo Street and Wellington Street bridges can “continue to carry thousands of vehicles a day for years to […]
Being pro bike and pro walking is also pro car – opinion
The founder of Transport Strategy consultancy Mobility Lab is arguing that road closures narrowing to make more room for walking and cycling is not an attack on motoring. Writing on LinkedIn in response to criticism of the road changes which are being blamed by some as leading to more congestion, James Gleave wrote, “Being pro-pedestrian […]
Nissan adds multiple ADAS features to mid-range vehicle
In the late 90s car companies advertising in the UK were keen to promote air conditioning in their vehicles as a new standard – beforehand it’d been the preserve of only top-of-the-range vehicles. Now the same could be happening to automatic driver assistance systems. The £15,000 Nissan Sentra is offering a range of driver aids […]