How ITS (UK) plans to influence Government policy – its new CEO explains on Highways Voices
“Every single member I’ve met has been really positive and optimistic about the industry, really excited about ITS (UK) as an organisation and their role in it,” says new ITS (UK) CEO Max Sugarman on the Highways Voices podcast – his first major interview since taking over from long-serving Secretary General Jennie Martin last month. “What’s […]
A review of ’22 on this week’s Highways Voices
As 2023 draws to a close, the final Highways Voices of the year hears Highways News co-owners Adrian Tatum and Paul Hutton discuss some of the key topics covered on the site through the year. In this 25 minute chat they discuss industry funding, and how maintenance contracts seem to be a lot more focused […]
Remotely implementing a traffic management system on another continent on this week’s Highways Voices
As traffic monitoring and data analytics company Valerann announces it has deployed its Lanternn by Valerann product on the Costa Arauco motorway in Chile, this week’s Highways Voices podcast finds out how they did it. Subscribe to Highways Voices free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode! Co-founder Michael Vardi says this “revolutionises” […]
Protecting and preserving the network on this week’s Highways Voices
Even though the Chancellor’s budget, delivered just two weeks ago, indicated that budgets to maintain the local road network appear to have escaped further cuts, although as we sit in the middle of a three-year funding cycle-no further increase are expected for at least another two years. On this week’s Highways Voices podcast, we explore […]
The race to decarbonise roads on this week’s Highways Voices
This week’s Highways Voices returns to the keynote session at Highways UK to discuss the important subject of decarbonising our roads. The discussion featured representatives of National Highways, Mott MacDonald, Arcadis and Costain, who discussed goals, commitment and how to change behaviour. The panel also discusses the move to electric vehicles and whether we can […]
“Bouncing around the exhibition floor” on Day 2 of Highways UK
We can only scratch the surface of the huge Highways UK event on these podcasts, but we’re bringing you a great flavour of what the estimated 8,000 industry professionals have experienced over two days at Birmingham’s NEC. These podcasts are brought to you thanks to the support of Re-flow, Kier Highways, Causeway Technologies, Navtech Radar and SWARCO. Today we bounce around […]
Growing a business on both sides of the Atlantic, this week on Highways Voices
“One thing I think that has been key to our success is actually delivering tangible value to customers with the solution that we provide,” explains One Network founder James Harris on this week’s Highways Voices podcast as he discusses how his company has cornered the roadworks information and management market in the UK, and is […]
Poorly Paul postpones podcast
Illness in the Highways News team means there will not be a Highways Voices podcast this week. Producer Paul Hutton has a chest infection and is unable to record and edit this week’s edition. He’s on the mend and should be back next week. If you’re in need of a Highways Voices fix, why not […]
Rating National Highways – the ORR’s report on this week’s Highways Voices
“I think in general, the company’s done pretty well, and there’s certainly been some significant successes,” says Harry Garnham of the Office and Rail and Road talking about National Highways performance on this week’s Highways Voices website. “But it’s not to say there haven’t been challenges, and there haven’t been areas where we have concerns […]
A groundbreaking use of traffic airflow explained on this week’s Highways Voices
Subscribe to Highways Voices free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode! It’s a world first this week on Highways Voices. We delve deeper into the story behind the world’s first roadside deployment of wind turbines on Telford & Wrekin’s network, with the company who developed the technology Alpha 311. Its Chief Executive […]
