American study highlights the dangers of distracted driving
A new study in the American state of Georgia has found more than half of the crashes in the state in 2022 were down to the driver being distracted. As new schemes in the UK, such as Devon and Cornwall’s use of Acusensus AI cameras to spot people using a mobile phone whilst driving, get […]
Chief Scientific Adviser joins speaker list for ITS World Congress
The Department for Transport’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof Sarah Sharples, has been added to the list of high-level speakers for next month’s ITS World Congress in Dubai. She’ll be taking part in a plenary session discussing how to balance the development of new tools in a single transport mode with focusing on fully integrated cross-sectorial […]
Edinburgh Tram workers back strike action over lack of toilet breaks
The Unite union has announced its Edinburgh Trams membership have ]backed strike action in a dispute over late running times to Edinburgh airport which it says is preventing workers from taking comfort breaks. Over 90% of tram workers in the ballot supported strike action. The union says more than 160 members could now take strike […]
“We had to club together £26k for a new road” – Residents pay for a new road to cover up potholes
People living on a street in Oldham say they were so fed up with the road outside their houses being difficult to drive on, they decided to take matters into their own hands. A recent TikTok has gained over 540k views of a resident sharing the before and after pictures of what once was a […]
Car parts supplier warns electric car transition may take longer than people expect
There’s a warning that switch to electric cars risks taking far longer than hoped as demand stalls in Europe and America. The Telegraph says Liam Butterworth, chief executive of car parts supplier GKN Automotive’s parent Dowlais, said the scrapping of electric vehicle ax breaks in countries such as Germany had triggered a sales slowdown that […]
GRIDSERVE announces global expansion plans
GRIDSERVE founder Toddington Harper has announced plans to expand the company globally with the creation of GRIDSERVE GLOBAL – taking the company’s name, technology and expertise to new markets. The website Transport and Energy quotes the company as saying the move aims to accelerate the global transition to clean energy and electric mobility – supporting […]
Scotland sets out active travel transformation plan
Transport Scotland says the implementation of a major change programme for active travel delivery has commenced, and which will evolve over the following years. It says this programme will affect change right across the Active Travel system, addressing shortcomings in both infrastructure delivery and behaviour change interventions. Within the new system that delivers infrastructure quickly, […]
Hunt adviser tells of Treasury’s enthusiasm for road user charging
An adviser to the former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has told how staff at the Treasury “piled pressure” on the last government to start work on a pay-per-mile road tax. The Daily Telegraph has spoken to Adam Smith, formerly chief of staff under Mr Hunt from 2022 to 2024, who said senior civil servants repeatedly pushed […]
Waymo to begin driverless testing on San Francisco’s freeways
Google’s driverless vehicle sister company Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous vehicles with no human safety driver on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. The website Tech Crunch reports that Waymo employees will use the vehicles, and initial testing will start outside rush hour with “less than a handful” of […]
Octavius secures Cambridge County Council highways scheme
Octavius has been awarded a reconstruction and resurfacing scheme divided across four locations on the Cambridge County Council highways network. The works include improvements at Church Road, Leverington, A10 Lynn Road Littleport, B1100 Padgetts Road Christchurch and Benrick Road, Whittlesey. Highways Framework Manager Jon Millar commented: “This is the fourth Fen RoadsReconstruction Package Octavius will […]