ADEPT Live Labs 2: Wessex Net Zero Corridor progress
The ADEPT Live Labs 2 monthly blogs continue to showcase progress across each of the seven projects, with the latest update from the Wessex project. Now eight months from completion, the blog shares progress on their net zero corridors initiative, with updates across Somerset, Hampshire and Cornwall. Project highlights include the forthcoming Highways Doughnut Toolkit […]
Lights out! Clearview SolarLite road studs prove to be a safe carbon-cutting replacement to streetlighting
A new report into decarbonisation of street lighting has detailed how millions of pounds a year and hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 could be saved by replacing them with solar road studs or reflective markings, without any negative effect on road safety. The East Riding of Yorkshire’s “Right Lighting, Right Place, Right Time” […]
The Changing Role of Traffic Managers: One month to go before ADEPT conference
It’s the last chance to book your free place at this year’s ADEPT National Traffic Managers’ Conference. The theme this year is ‘The Changing Role of Traffic Managers’ and will focus on how we navigate the changes, challenges and opportunities facing traffic managers today. The free event will take place in 2025 in Birmingham, on […]
Liverpool: Roads decarbonisation leads to huge reduction in emissions
Liverpool City Council is making impressive strides toward its net zero ambitions through an innovative programme that could save up to 71% of carbon emissions from the city’s roads. ADEPT Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads in the UK is a three-year, UK-wide £30 million programme funded by the Department for Transport that aims to […]
ADEPT Live Lab 2 blog: Welcome to the Dragons’ Den
The latest ADEPT Live Labs 2 blog is from Giles Perkins, Live Labs 2 Programme Director. Giles discusses the Live Labs 2 Expo “Dragons’ Den” style pitch sessions where SMEs showcased products to help decarbonise the highways sector. Two joint winners emerged: Circular 11, with their infrastructure products made from hard to recycle plastics and […]
Devolution and Local Government Reform: ADEPT announces autumn conference details
Booking is now open for the ADEPT Autumn Conference 2025, which will be held on Thursday 20-Friday 21 November at The Lowry Hotel in Manchester. This year’s theme is: ‘Devolution and Local Government Reform – the biggest shake up the sector has seen for 50 years?’ With the government agenda to widen and deepen devolution, […]
ADEPT reveals National Traffic Managers’ Conference theme
The theme for this year’s ADEPT National Traffic Managers’ Conference has been announced. The Changing Role of Traffic Managers will focus on how we navigate the changes, challenges and opportunities facing traffic managers today. The free event will take place in Leicester, on Wednesday 8 October. The annual conference is aimed at traffic managers, corporate […]
ADEPT Live Labs 2 blogs highlight project progress
The ADEPT Live Labs 2 monthly blogs continue to showcase progress across each of the seven projects. The Transport for West Midlands’ Centre of Excellence live lab provides an update on their work on pothole phase 2 trials in July. In East Riding, the first phase of test sites were made live earlier this year, […]
ADEPT’s National Traffic Managers’ Conference in October
Booking has now opened for ADEPT’s National Traffic Managers’ Conference 2025. The annual event will take place in 2025 in Leicester, on Wednesday 8th October. The conference is aimed at traffic managers, corporate partners from key service sectors, professional bodies and civil servants from across England. It will feature a series of presentations and panel […]
Mott MacDonald and ADEPT give their responses to the 10-year Infrastructure Strategy
Engineering, management and development consultancy Mott MacDonald is urging the government to ensure its 10-year Infrastructure Strategy is delivered in full. Responding to the announcement, Richard Risdon, executive board director and regional managing director for UK and Europe at Mott MacDonald, urged the government to become “the guardian of a long-term approach to new infrastructure”. […]