Highways Voices 18 – 5G with Chris Holmes and Andy Graham
“The business case for 5G is not transport, let’s not kid ourselves,” says connected vehicle expert Andy Graham from White Willow Consulting on this week’s Highways Voices podcast. But, he explains, the technology does give many opportunities to transform transport, “We should be definitely pushing with 5G… we should be really taking the advantage of […]
Highways Voices 17 – business development with SWARCO
“I do believe more revenue and bigger profits should just be a result and will be a result of putting the customer centre,” explains SWARCO’s Global Business Development Manager in this week’s Highways Voices podcast which focusses on how to do business in an ever-changing transport landscape. “We must not take any decisions with the […]
Highways Voices 16 – Glynn Barton of Transport for London
“The one saving grace,” says Glynn Barton while talking about the Coronavirus crisis, “is that it wasn’t the other way – we didn’t all of a sudden see a boom in traffic and movement on our very busy network”. Having overseen a huge change to traffic flows in London, been affected by the sudden drop in tube and […]
Highways Voices 15 – Signals and training with John Nightingale and Jackie Davies
The move to online, will improve training programmes and support at-home working, this week’s Highways Voices has heard. Listen here. These are the thoughts of one of this week’s guests, John Nightingale, Director of training specialist JCT Consultancy and organiser of the annual JCT Traffic Signals Symposium. He said: “Developing proper online training isnt just […]
Highways Voices 14 – Driverless Cars with Nick Reed
One of the world’s leading experts in automated vehicles has told the latest Highways Voices podcast that developers must accept drivers may not use their vehicles correctly and put in the relevant safeguards to minimise risk. Consultant Professor Nick Reed of Reed Mobility was referring to cases such as the driver who put his car […]
Highways Voices 13 – Transport Modelling with Gav Jackman of Aimsun
This week’s Highways Voices responds to the comments on the podcast from March when local authorities were urged to make more use the data they gather by using transport modelling. Gav Jackman, Managing Director of the UK division of global modelling company Aimsun, explains what the data is used for and how it can improve […]
Highways Voices 12 – Peter Hitchens on e-scooters
One of the UK’s leading, and most outspoken, newspaper columnists has told the Highways News podcast Highways Voices that if you were designing a recipe for injury in busy town and city centres, you couldn’t come up with a better one than e-scooters. Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens appeared on Highways Voices to add […]
Highways Voices 11 – Ministerial Memories
“I loved being a Minister, but not being an MP”. That’s the admission from two former transport ministers in this week’s Highways Voices podcast, which hears from Conservative Steve Norris, who served in the John Major government in the 90s, and Labour’s Stephen Ladyman, a minister under Tony Blair a decade later. In the podcast […]
Highways Voices 10 – Cyber Security
Cyber attacks present a real threat to highway and transport operations, unless very strict security measures are in place, hears this week’s Highways Voices. This was according to transport consultant, Scott Belcher, who spoke to Highways News about the importance of cyber security to the sector. Mr Belcher has completed a study, Transit Industry Cyber […]
Highways Voices 9 – The ALARM Survey
Average highway maintenance budgets were up by 15% on average in England last year although were below the levels reported in 2019, citing a continued pattern of inconsistent levels of funding, making it difficult for councils to plan longer term, according to this year’s ALARM Survey. Welsh local authority budgets were up by 22% on […]
