Oxfordshire County Council to reduce traffic congestion using real-time data
Oxfordshire County Council’s Research & Innovation team, iHub, and Alchera Data Technologies have announced the successful completion of Phase 2 of its New Mobility project. The project is designed to dramatically reduce traffic congestion and pollution by using real-time data insights. The overarching goal of the two-phase project was to enable data-driven decisions for transport network management supported […]
Parents find the school run three times more stressful than meeting the boss
A new survey of parents of children aged 18 and under suggests people are three times as likely to find the school run stressful as meeting their line manager at work (22% vs 7%) and almost twice as likely as commuting to work (12%). Polling from by the Clean Cities Campaign found 22% of those […]
Kent CC urges Government to intervene to help clear Kent’s gridlocked roads on the route to Dover
The leader of Kent County Council has urged the government to intervene to prevent traffic gridlock on the county’s roads. Thousands of trucks were affected by Operation Brock last week as they were forced to queue on the side of the M20 when heading to Dover. A combination of things – including the Easter holidays, […]
London could become gridlocked because of shift to driving during pandemic
London could become gridlocked more often because of a shift towards driving as a means of transport during the Covid pandemic, the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan has said, warning that it risks creating a new health crisis from increased pollution. While levels of walking and cycling have risen in the capital, the overall proportion of people making […]
Dudley Council awarded £1 million to ease traffic flows across the borough
Dudley Council has been awarded a grant of more than £1 million for a scheme to improve traffic flow on bottleneck roads across the borough. The investment is from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), will be used to improve the performance of traffic lights on several busy roads in Dudley, Sedgley, Cradley and Brierley […]
Projects to help solve congestion ‘showing promise,’ says DfT
Exciting, innovative solutions to tackle the challenge of congestion are starting to emerge as a result of more funding and the work of the Transport Technology Forum (TTF), according to Anthony Ferguson, Deputy Director at the Department for Transport. Speaking at the TTF Congestion Challenge event in York today, he described congestion as “the biggest […]
Cumbria County Council to consider ‘eco-charge’ for the Lake District’s busy roads
Further calls have been made in Cumbria for an eco-charge as a solution to help ease congestion in the Lake District area of the county during busy periods. Cumbria County Council member for Keswick Tony Lywood is calling for a charge to vehicles from outside Cumbria for the roads that are becoming gridlocked on bank […]
Congestion halves in pandemic year
New figures analysing traffic congestion in the UK are demonstrating just how much effect the coronavirus crisis has had on journeys over the past year. The 2020 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard identifies and ranks congestion and mobility trends throughout the pandemic across more than 1000 cities, across 50 countries – including the UK and reports […]
