Lancashire councillors sign off on plans to invest £61m on highways infrastructure
Plans to invest more than £61 million to improve Lancashire’s highways infrastructure over the next year have been approved. The decision means the council can continue to focus on maintaining everything from roads and bridges to traffic signals and streetlights on a preventative basis, before the need for repairs becomes critical and more expensive. The […]
New options considered for National Parking Platform
The Department for Transport says it is working with the parking industry to “explore options for taking forward delivery of a national [parking] platform”. The comments, reported in the Guardian Newspaper, follow suggestions the government is going to withdraw funding for the scheme with a minister seemingly blaming “the dire financial position Labour inherited from […]
Local Authorities’ data use cases called for in Transport Data Strategy research
The Department for Transport’s Transport Technology Forum (TTF) is looking for local authorities and their suppliers or consultants to share examples of use cases which have used data to improve transport. Through its support agreement with the TTF, the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) is working on gathering these into a live repository, to […]
TTF Autumn Update presentations online
Recordings of sessions from this year’s Transport Technology Forum Autumn Update, which took place on Tuesday 12th November at the IET Austin Court in Birmingham are now online. The event heard from Department for Transport Traffic Technology Deputy Director Anthony Ferguson about priorities of the new government policy and funding, and from ITS Policy Lead […]
Authorities urged to work together more on data collection and modelling
Local authorities, consultants and data providers are being encouraged to collaborate more closely in their transport modelling work to speed up and standardise the way new projects are planned and traffic is managed in real time. More than a hundred modelling professionals meeting at the PTV User Group annual meeting in London heard an expert […]
TTF returns to Leicestershire for next year’s Conference – Bookings now open
The Transport Technology Forum will return to the Leonardo Hotel Hinckley Island in Leicestershire for next year’s Annual Conference from 6-8 May 2025. The event has grown significantly in popularity over the past few years and the overwhelming feedback was that the larger, out-of-town location worked well for both the knowledge sharing and networking aspects […]
West Yorkshire bus fares staying at £2 until at least March
The £2 cap on bus fares will be extended in West Yorkshire following the announcement Cengtral Government spending on buses. The Department for Transport has confirmed West Yorkshire Combined Authority would receive £36.1 million to go towards its Bus Service Improvement Plan for the coming year. This will allow the CA to continue to cap single bus fares […]
ITS UK calls ITMF cancellation a “hugely missed opportunity”
The Chief Executive, Intelligent Transport Systems UK has criticised the Government’s decision to cancel the £20 million Intelligent Traffic Management Fund, calling it “a hugely missed opportunity for the Government,” and strongly urging them to reconsider this move. The Department for Transport has written to English Local Authority Chief Executives this week to inform them […]
Think tank warns DfT may face cuts in budget fallout
There’s a warning that the Department for Transport may be in line for cuts in the future because the tax rises in the budget will not raise as much as forecast. The Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis says the increase employer national insurance contributions announced on Wednesday will not raise “anything like” the £25 billion […]
TTF Autumn Update discusses data analytics, TSOG and GLF, road safety and codes of practice
The themes for the Transport Technology Forum’s Autumn Update on 12 November have been set, focussed on informing local authorities and suppliers with the latest on government policy. The one-day event in Birmingham will hear from senior members of the Department for Transport, including Traffic Technology Deputy Director Anthony Ferguson , Dr Michaela Nelson, Head […]
