LGTAG and IHE extend partnership
The Local Government Technical Advisers Group has announced it’s extended its partnership with theInstitute of Highways Engineers (IHE). In June 2023 our then President, Amanda Richards signed the first Memorandum of Understanding with the IHE. 2024-25 President, Sean Rooney, has now agreed a further extension and renewed the IHE PDP partner certificate. In the past […]
Sean Rooney of LGTAG on innovation funding, collaboration and leaving the world a better place – this week’s Highways Voices
In this episode of Highways Voices we hear from Sean Rooney, Head of Service in Highways Maintenance at Oxfordshire County Council and President of the Local Government Technical Advisers Group. You will discover what he is doing during his year in the post, and why a year might not be long enough, plus hear about […]
LGTAG Presidential Conference 2024: From research to reality via collaboration
That the Local Government Technical Advisory Group (LGTAG) Presidential Conference 2024 was held at a venue that attendees were virtually obliged to drive to was neither here nor there as the event got off to an auspicious, baton-passing start. Outgoing President Amanda Richards welcomed incoming incumbent Sean Rooney, Head of Highway Service Maintenance at Oxfordshire […]
LGTAG Presidential Conference: Collaborative Research – From Research to Reality
The LGTAG annual conference this year will be focussing on: Collaborative Research – From Research to Reality and is to be held at the Kassam Stadium, Oxford on the 5th June 2024 The Highways Sector is a vast array of many varied disciplines. It relies upon many new technologies and processes, from connected vehicles to […]
Transport Minister calls greening our road network “a challenge but also an opportunity”
The Transport Minister Trudy Harrison has told the Local Government Technical Advisers Group that “Everyone here has a role to play to ensure that we get emissions down and hit net zero by 2050. All roads the arteries that connect the country and power our economy”. The Minister gave the keynote speech at the organisation’s […]
Major government review says highways authorities have coped well with extreme weather events but sector must ‘co-design’ better ways to support communities
A major government review has found ‘clear evidence’ of authorities within the highways sectorthat have coped well under the intense and sustained pressures placed on them by a variety of extreme-weather hazards over recent years. But despite this, the sector must ‘co-design’ better ways to support communities over coming decades, according to one expert, who […]
LGTAG launches highways health and wellbeing survey
The Local Government Technical Advisers Group backed by the Department for Transport and the Local Government Roads Innovation Group is launching a Health and Wellbeing Survey in order to gain an understanding of how the highways sector has coped throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. With the sector employing almost a quarter of a million people, LGTAG says […]
