CCAV and BSI issue new guidance on safe stopping of automated vehicles

The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and British Standards Institution have issued a paper on how driverless vehicles can safely stop in the event of an emergency. The issue surrounds the situations when a vehicle is unable to safely continue a journey, or fails completely. This is particularly critical when the AV does not […]
BSI issues road condition monitoring data specification

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has issued the PAS 2161:2024 , an all new specification for the collection and reporting of road condition data. It says PAS 2161 marks a pivotal change in measuring local road network conditions, introducing updated data protocols that will be used by Local Authorities to report data to central government […]
DfT publishes a new standard for highway condition data collection

The Department for Transport (DfT) has published a new standard-PAS 2161, for how highway condition data is collected and reported, opening the way for a new approach to road condition categories and highway inspections. The PAS 2161:2024 represents a landmark introduction in the management and reporting of road conditions for councils in England. Drawn from […]
FM Conway secures coveted carbon certification

Infrastructure services company FM Conway is now British Standards Institute (BSI) certified to PAS 2080:2023, the global standard for the management and reduction of whole-life carbon in infrastructure and the built environment. PAS 2080 provides the framework for managing whole-life carbon across infrastructure projects through promotion of early collaboration with the whole value chain and […]
ITS (UK) promotes common standards use in joint webinar

Members of the UK’s Intelligent Transport Systems industry association have benefitted from a session explaining the value of standards and how they are deployed and used across the ITS and wider transport sector. The event, held jointly with RTIG, the Realtime Information Group, heard from the British Standards Institution, BSI, which explained how standardisation covers […]