Yunex Traffic and Grid Smarter Cities among CIHT Awards shortlist nominees
The Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation has announced the shortlists for the 2025 CIHT Awards. The CIHT awards celebrate excellence and innovation within the highways, transport and infrastructure sector. The awards showcase the successful organisations, projects, innovations and brands to a global audience of leaders, decision makers and the budget holders of the sector. […]
Grid Smarter Cities’ kerbside management scheme on Walworth Road made permanent
In partnership with Southwark Council, Kerbside management company Grid Smarter Cities has announced that a pioneering kerbside management scheme on Walworth Road has now been made permanent. This groundbreaking initiative is the first-of-its-kind and sets a new standard for urban logistics and kerbside management, transforming how kerb space is used. The company’s Kerb® solution was […]
Business Secretary responds to logistics industry’s call for recognition
The Secretary of State for Business and Trade has responded to a letter from leaders of the UK’s largest logistics and supply chain businesses calling on him to recognise logistics as a foundational sector in Industry Strategy, by replying that the sector is “critical to the UK’s economic prosperity, security and wellbeing”. Jonathan Reynolds was […]
Grid Smarter Cities CEO joins logistics industry leaders in calling for recognition
The Chief Executive of kerbside management company Grid Smarter Cities has joined leaders of the UK’s largest logistics and supply chain businesses in writing to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade calling on him to recognise logistics as a foundational sector in Industry Strategy, and to appoint Logistics UK Chief Executive David Wells […]
Businesses in Southwark enjoy a year of seamless deliveries thanks to Grid’s kerbside technology solution
Software solutions business Grid Smarter Cities is marking one year of delivering more efficient freight loading and unloading in a busy high street in London. The company’s Kerb® solution was introduced in February 2024 in Walworth Road in the London Borough of Southwark, London’s first scheme enabling freight drivers to book their kerbside loading slots […]
Grid Smarter Cities founder hails “landmark year” for the company
The founder of kerbside management company Grid Smarter Cities has hailed 2024 as the year the company went from “lots of pilot projects” to “actually making a difference at the kerbside”. Neil Herron (pictured) has pointed to a number of schemes delivered through the year, with six Local Authorities in London. Its Kerb® product allows […]
London “leading the way” in traffic management technology as it takes on “most congested” tag
One of the UK’s leading transport technology entrepreneurs is highlighting London’s constant embracing of innovation to reduce traffic congestion, as new figures suggest the city’s drivers sit in congestion for more than a hundred hours each every year. The latest INRIX traffic scorecard found London to be Europe’s most congested city, with, on average, each […]
Grid Smarter Cities’ bookable loading bays in Westminster widened to all delivery vehicles
New bookable loading bays created in Westminster earlier in the year are being made available to all types of delivery vans. The Kerb® online booking platform, delivered by kerbside management technology company Grid Smarter Cities, had originally operated exclusively for Electric Vehicles. Kerb® allows delivery drivers to remotely reserve 30-to-90-minute unloading slots at bays near […]
Grid Smarter Cities’ pioneering Kerb® solution profiled in leading magazine
The leading trade publication for the parking industry, Parking Review, has published an in-depth article about Kerbside management company Grid Smarter Cities’ Kerb® loading bay booking solution. Kerb® is being trialled for 18 months on Walworth Road in the London Borough of Southwark, enabling kerbside loading bay restrictions to be easily understood and recreated on […]
Grid Smarter Cities publishes report into cross-docking river freight scheme
London’s first river-road scheme which included dedicated space at the kerbside for cross-docking freight has concluded, with the company behind it publishing its conclusions. Two bookable bays were created on Bankside adjacent to Bankside Pier for the use of freight, servicing and delivery drivers, using a kerbside management solution delivered by Grid Smarter Cities. Following […]
