smartmicro launches online product selection guide for traffic sensor projects
Traffic sensor technology company smartmicro has launched a new online Product Selection Guide designed to help engineers and system integrators identify suitable sensors and product combinations for traffic management schemes. Available through the company’s website, the tool guides users through a series of questions about their project, including the intended application, detection requirements, coverage area […]
Highways Voices: From being told you’re unemployable to becoming an award-winning transport planner
Most Highways Voices episodes explore innovation, leadership and technology. This one explores something even more powerful: the determination of one remarkable woman who refused to let life tell her “no”. In one of the most moving and inspirational conversations we’ve ever recorded, transport planner Lynsey Michelle Turner shares her extraordinary journey from a childhood dominated […]
JCT Symposium delegates to hear how ‘thinking like a river’ could unlock solutions to congestion
Can treating traffic like flowing water help engineers identify the real causes of congestion at some of the UK’s most challenging junctions? That’s one of the thought-provoking questions set to be explored at this September’s JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Lincoln, where National Highways’ Peter Richards and Marinos Tsiplakis from Compass IoT Limited will present […]
Rees Jeffreys Road Fund opens professional development and innovation grant applications
The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund has opened applications for two funding programmes designed to support both individual professional development and innovative projects across the UK transport sector. The charity is inviting applications for its Ready for the Future professional development grants alongside grants of up to £30,000 for research and educational projects that improve how […]
Heidi Alexander remains as Transport Secretary
Heidi Alexander has been retained as Transport Secretary in Andy Burnham’s cabinet. As other politicians have either left government or been given new portfolios, the transport brief remains with the MP who has run the Department since November 2024. Ms Alexander has previously been Deputy Mayor of London. Her first response to the reappointment is […]
ITS World Congress 2027 puts people before technology in latest call to industry
The organisers of the ITS World Congress 2027 have reinforced that the event will focus on improving people’s lives through transport technology, as preparations continue for the global gathering in Birmingham next October. In the latest edition of ERTICO – ITS Europe’s One Global Journey newsletter, the Congress team says the event’s vision goes beyond showcasing the […]
Behind the barriers: Highways Voices examines safety solutions at CRASH 26
This week’s Highways Voices comes from CRASH 26, an event which brought together road safety professionals, local authorities, suppliers and infrastructure specialists for a day of live demonstrations showing what really happens when vehicles collide with roadside equipment. The event gives delegates the opportunity to see products perform in realistic scenarios while discussing how the […]
ITS World Congress 2027 puts people before technology in latest call to industry
The organisers of the ITS World Congress 2027 have reinforced that the event will focus on improving people’s lives through transport technology, as preparations continue for the global gathering in Birmingham next October. In the latest edition of ERTICO – ITS Europe’s One Global Journey newsletter, the Congress team says the event’s vision goes beyond […]
“You cannot test for every scenario” – CRASH event showcases road safety innovations in real-world conditions
“You cannot test for every scenario that’s out there.” That was the message from Passive Safety UK’s Andrew Pledge as hundreds of road safety professionals gathered in Suffolk for the CRASH demonstration event yesterday (9 July) where live vehicle impacts and practical demonstrations were used to show how safety products perform in real-world conditions rather […]
Council says transport improvements helping keep Nottinghamshire moving
Nottinghamshire County Council has highlighted progress on highways, transport and electric vehicle infrastructure after reporting it completed 40 of the 48 priority actions set out in its 2024/25 Annual Delivery Plan. The authority’s Annual Report, presented to Cabinet, says four of the five actions under its ambition to improve transport and digital connections were completed […]