TTF Connected Vehicle meeting to show off cutting-edge innovations in in-vehicle signage
Members of the Transport Technology Forum’s Technical Working Group on vehicle-to-infrastructure communications will get to experience the very latest in technology to display real-time information into vehicles at an event at one of the UK’s leading test tracks this October. The SPATULA group meeting on 12 October at the UTAC site at Millbrook in Bedfordshire […]
New project surveys potential benefits of digital roads
A new project is getting underway to analyse the potential benefits of increasing connectivity and use of digital technology on local roads in England to create “digital roads”. Digital Roads is a broad concept where increasing use of information technology, data and connectivity allows step-changes to the way roads are designed, built, managed and used. […]
Technology at the heart of transport – Sarah Sharples on this week’s Highways Voices
“I think when it was first brought in as a role to government departments, the Chief Scientific Adviser was expected to be the wise expert who knew everything about science,” says the Department for Transport’s Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sarah Sharples on this week’s Highways Voices podcast. “I hope I don’t disappoint you, I don’t […]
TTF Conference materials now online
The presentation slides from this year’s Transport Technology Forum conference are now online. The event, which attracted around 200 delegates, took place in Liverpool in May bringing together Local Authorities, National Government, suppliers and academics. The papers can be seen here. Recordings of the presentations will be available w/b 13 June. The Conference was sponsored […]
“We’re going to need a bigger venue” – delegates react positively to TTF Conference 2022
The Transport Technology Forum is in search of a bigger venue for its next Annual Conference in 2023in the light of attendance at, and feedback from, its 2022 event two weeks ago. Spread over three days, the conference provided ample opportunities for delegates to make new connections and leave with fresh ideas, prompted by a […]
TTF shares video of virtual road signs “untouched by human hand”
The Transport Technology Forum has shared one of the key moments of its conference last week – the video of infrastructure-to-vehicle technology showing that VMS, temporary VMS and traditional signs can be repeated in vehicle without the need for human intervention. The video explained a project delivered by HRS, KL Systems and White Willow Consulting […]
Making Active Travel Easy – Chris Boardman on this week’s Highways Voices
“I started with an outcome of what do we want the places we live to be like, what do we want that to be for our families and our kids, and then what do we need to get people there – and easy is the is the first word. It’s got to be easy.” The […]
Boardman tells TTF – make transport “easy”
England’s Active Travel Commissioner Chris Boardman says it’s vital we make it “easy” for people to travel in a more active way. “If we can’t look out of a car window and see active travel and think ‘I could do that’ then it’s pointless,” he told the Transport Technology Forum conference in Liverpool, as he […]
Chief Scientific Adviser says technology is at the heart of transport
The Department for Transport’s Chief Scientific Adviser has told the Transport Technology Forum conference that technology is crucial in delivering the transport networks of the future. Professor Sarah Sharples joined the Department in July last year to provide independent challenge and support, making the connection between the work in the Department, industry, Local Authorities and […]
HRS sponsoring this week’s TTF Conference
Digital traffic management specialist HRS has signed up as the main sponsor of this week’s Transport Technology Forum Conference 2022. Around 200 professionals from across the public and private sectors are expected at the annual event in Liverpool which runs from 17 to 19 May. The sell-out event, titled ‘We Can Work It Out’, concentrates […]