Brightly Software: How can strategic asset management benefit your local council?
Local councils are under ever-growing pressure to ensure their roads and other public assets remain safe and reliable, while at the same time having to manage tighter budgets and increased public expectations. A reactive approach, responding to issues of asset degradation only after they are noticed, is increasingly unsustainable and, especially with issues such as […]
Opinion: Paving the way for resilient communities with Insightful and Smart asset management for UK councils
By: Sara Carter, Regional Marketing Director, Brightly Software, a Siemens company For UK councils, managing public assets isn’t just about upkeep; it involves building resilient communities, and nurturing trust and transparency between them and their residents. With thousands of public assets to manage – including highways assets like carriageways, footways, signs, traffic signals and streetlights […]
National Highways renews £8m asset management contract with Brightly Software
National Highways has renewed its asset management contract with Brightly Software, part of Siemens, for its Confirm enterprise asset management system. The contract, valued at just over £8m, has an optional one-year extension to June 2029. National Highways uses Confirm for asset and workflow management in a tailored implementation to integrate with multiple asset management […]
Brightly Software: Becoming a Carbon Literate Organisation
Whether at an individual, or organisational level, it’s easy to talk a good game when it comes to carbon reduction and environmental responsibility. It’s far less easy to put that talk into practice and begin to make the kinds of changes that will make a meaningful difference. It’s harder still to commit to those changes […]
Building trust in AI: Brightly Software on how Intelligent Inspections are revolutionising highway maintenance
Today on Highways Voices we look at build trust in artificial intelligence for use in the Highways Sector. With shrinking budgets and rising demands from both the public and government, local authorities are under immense pressure to deliver smarter, faster, and more accurate highway maintenance. So today, we look at how AI-driven inspections and integrated […]
TTF Conference Exhibition sells out for fourth year in a row
The intelligent transport systems supply chain has once again shown its support for one of the premier industry events of the year, as the Transport Technology Forum Annual Conference returns to Nuneaton, with the exhibition space now filled with 26 companies for the three-day event. The Conference, from 6-8 May at the Leonardo Hotel at […]
Highways News column: Assets. United: A centralised approach for improved highways management
By Steve Harris, Solutions Manager, Brightly Software Many of our customers in the UK – predominantly local councils – use Brightly’s Confirm software solution to manage their highways assets, including carriageways, footways, signs, traffic signals, streetlights – and many other things that both drivers and pedestrians see, and rely upon, when travelling. A key challenge […]