Intel confirms Moovit acquisition
Intel’s spent $900 million (approx £710 million) to buy the Mobility as a Service app Moovit. The app offers travellers around the world multimodal trip planning by combining public transport, bike and scooter services, ride-hailing, and car-sharing. Intel says adding Moovit to its business helps bring the company’s Mobileye subsidiary closer to achieving its plan […]
Heard takes over as SMMT’s Industry Forum CEO
The consultancy and training arm of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has a new CEO. Paul Heard will take up the role at the SMMT Industry Forum on the 1 July, replacing Dr Chris Owen. For the last 20 years Hard has been in management and consultancy roles with EV Cargo, QT Consulting, […]
DfT’s Chief Scientist confirmed on SAGE committee
The Government’s released the names of most of the members of its Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, which confirms that Professor Phil Blythe is among the top table of experts advising on Covid-19 policy. The Newcastle University Professor is the Department for Transport’s Chief Scientific Adviser on the use of science and engineering evidence in […]
Consultancies support Coronavirus “unsung heroes”
A joint venture between leading transport businesses Thales and WSP has created a new web page to provide the latest updates for the UK’s long distance hauliers. The companies’ joint venture Network Information Services which supports Highways England, gives the status of motorway service areas and other roadside stops on the strategic road network. “It […]
A14 upgrade opens eight months early
The £1.5bn upgrade of the A14 through Cambridgeshire has fully opened, cutting 20 minutes off the journey between the West Midlands and Suffolk coast. The work involved bypassing two roundabouts near Huntingdon, one at the junction of the A1, and simplifying the intersection with the M11 and A421 northwest of Cambridge. All but cosmetic work […]
Gridserve gets funding to create a hundred EV charging forecourts
The sustainable energy company Gridserve has signed a deal with Hitachi to develop ultra-fast charging for all types of electric vehicles, delivering more than a hundred Electric Forecourts over five years. It says the partnership will see Gridserve develop the UK’s most “technically advanced hybrid solar farms”, with Hitachi bringing its “financial strength” and motor […]
Record fall for new car sales in April
New car sales were down more than 97 per cent in April, to their lowest level “in living memory”. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says new car registrations numbered just 4,321 in the month and it expects 2020 to see the lowest number of sales since 1992. It wants car dealerships to be […]
Questions over connected vehicle data privacy policies
It’s being reported that some vehicle manufacturers are failing to wipe replaced components from their cars, meaning people’s personal data can be found on second-hand kit. TechHQ reports that so-called “white hacker” (someone who hacks things to show problems and not for nefarious purposes) GreenTheOnly has found people who have their car retrofitted with new […]
England’s big transport authorities list Covid support requirements
The major local transport authorities say they need clarity on facemasks, social distancing, travel demand and funding in order to properly cope during the Coronavirus crisis. The Local Transport Group, made up of authorities in London, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, has issued a report saying they’re […]
Intel buying Moovit to boost driverless division
It looks like global chip manufacturer Intel is about to spend a billion dollars buying the real-time public transport app Moovit. TechCrunch reports that all the signs are that it’s happening, and while Moovit’s not confirmed the deal is in the offing, it’s not denied it either. TechCrunch says its sources tell it that the […]