Highways Voices 8 – The New Shape of Traffic
The latest Highways Voices podcast from Highways News has heard why transport modelling is key to making the most of the growth in traffic data that is being gathered to understand changes in patterns due to the Coronavirus crisis. Guest Darren Capes from the Department for Transport explains a data project he’s overseen for the […]
Highways Voices 7 – Active Travel
Providing accurate, up-to-date data and tools to the public to enable them to make instant journey decisions will help encourage more active travel use, according to Scott Cain, owner of runfriendly.com and consultant to the Connected Places Catapult, speaking on this week’s Highways Voices podcast. He said by optimising journeys for the public alongside providing […]
Highways Voices 6 – Michael Rodd
Legendary Tomorrow’s World presenter Michael Rodd features in this week’s podcast saying that inventors of clever technology must “actually go through the whole process of market analysis of working out whether something was… meeting a need that was sellable to the rest of the world.” Rodd presented new ideas to the nation for ten years […]
Highways Voices 5 – road surfaces with Wiltshire CC and R3 Ltd
Pollution from tyre micro plastic particles could be one of the next big environmental challenges facing highways authorities, according to Campbell Waddell, Managing Director of surface testing specialists, R3 Ltd. Speaking as part of this weeks Highways News podcast, Highways Voices, Mr Waddell said that tyre manufacturers are putting a lot of research into the […]
Highways Voices 4 – maintenance with RSTA and ASI Solutions
Highway engineers need to be open-minded to using the ‘complete’ tool box of solutions as part of their asset management strategies, with different surface treatments offering cost effective and sustainable alternatives, as moe local authorities introduce a more proactive approach as part of their maintenance strategies. That was the message from Paul Boss, Chief Executive […]
Highways Voices 3 – Enforcement with Geoff Collins of Jenoptik with input from Videalert and Redflex
The latest Highways Voices podcast from Highways News features an in-depth interview with one of the UK’s leading experts on enforcement, who explains how to make sure the public support technology to ensure compliance on the road. Assistant Managing Director Geoff Collins of Jenoptik told hosts Paul Hutton and Adrian Tatum that enforcement should never […]
Highways Voices 2 – HERE and Gaist
When you stop and think about it, a huge amount of innovation in the highways and transport technology industries over the past 20 years have been related to location services, but what about the mapping that underpins it? The latest Highways Voices podcast digs into the issue by talking to HERE Technologies Chief Product Officer […]
Highways Voices 1 – John Pickworth of SWARCO
The new Managing Director of SWARCO in the UK is committing to working with local authorities to help them adapt to changing travel patterns post Covid, and delivering a joined up solution from his company’s different business units. In his first interview since taking over last month, John Pickworth has told Highways News’s new weekly podcast Highways […]
