JCT offers cut-price Symposium places to Early Careers Professionals
The organisers of the popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium are offering people new to the industry heavily discounted tickets to the event in September. The Symposium shares best practice in the signals industry through a programme of learned papers covering a range of topics including road safety, traffic management research, asset management and on-street intelligence, […]
The Tortoise and the Hare with Traffic Group Signals on this week’s Highways Voices
On this week’s highways voices, a new way of managing temporary roadworks. Subscribe to Highways Voices free on Apple Podcasts,Spotify,Amazon Music,Google PodcastsorPocket Casts and never miss an episode! Dr Darren Hudson of Traffic Group Signals is uor guest, where he talks about a concept he calls the tortoise and the Hare, which involves modelling road user micro […]
First JCT Symposium sessions released online
A recordings of presentations from the first session a last month’s JCT Traffic Signals Symposium have been uploaded to the event’s YouTube channel. All seven sessions at the Symposium in Nottingham were filmed thanks to the support of video sponsors AGD Systems, INRIX, Messagemaker Displays, PTV Group, Simplifai Systems, smartmicro UK and TRL Software. The […]
Rory Sutherland’s JCT address and Darren Capes’s industry challenge on this week’s Highways Voices
“I think allowing road pricing schemes to be designed by economists and only economists is really, really dangerous,” says Rory Sutherland on today’s Highways Voices Podcast, “Because there’s a huge amount of price being a perception, and one of the big strong, really, really strong evolved instincts in humans is a sense of fairness.” Subscribe […]
Knowledge shared at record breaking JCT Traffic Signals Symposium
A record number of delegates and exhibitors have shared two days of high-level knowledge sharing at the 2023 JCT Traffic Signals Symposium, with the Keynote Address delivered by behavioural scientists Rory Sutherland and Pete Dyson winning the Most Thought Provoking Paper Award 310 delegates attended Nottingham Trent University for the 28th running of the event, […]
DfT ITS Policy Lead issues challenge to the industry
Darren Capes, manager of the Transport Technology Forum and ITS Policy Lead at the Department for Transport has challenged the signals industry to consider how traffic signals can make a real difference to the way we travel. Speaking to the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham he set out three challenges to use traffic signals […]
Exhibitors praise JCT Traffic Signals Symposium for attracting the right people and not being commercialised
With the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham just a week away, companies exhibiting have described why it’s such an important event on the calendar, while praising the quality of programme and participation. Seven exhibitors; AGD Systems, INRIX, Messagemaker Displays, PTV Group, Simplifai Systems, smartmicro and TRL are ensuring the longevity of the knowledge sharing […]
Industry-leading experts take turns to chair JCT Traffic Signals Symposium sessions
Some of the country’s leading transport technology experts will be leading the conversation at the popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium next month as they chair the learned programme of papers during the event. The two-day symposium features 23 separate presentations covering a range of topics including road safety, traffic management research, asset management and on-street […]
Derbyshire case study proves the value of integrated traffic management
The Intelligent traffic solution and technology business SWARCO will tell delegates at the popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium next month how Intelligent Transport Systems are enhancing efficiencies and creating a more connected transport network throughout Derbyshire. The presentation will explain how Derbyshire recognised the link between reliable and dependable transport infrastructure and economic growth, and […]
JCT Traffic Signals Symposium to hear about AI solution making road safer
Delegates at the popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham next month will hear about more than traffic signals and traffic management, as details are shared of a revolutionary new enforcement solution which automatically identifies distracted and unsafe drivers. Geoff Collins, General Manager of the UK division of Australian technology company Acusensus will share details […]
