TRL wins long term pavement surveys contracts for National Highways
TRL have been awarded four seven-year contracts by National Highways to supply intrusive pavement survey and testing services in the Southeast and Midlands regions, and non-intrusive pavement survey and testing services in the Southeast and East regions. Pavement surveys are commissioned to support the development and design of network maintenance and improvement schemes. Intrusive and […]
Michigan aiming to be America’s first state with in-road wireless EV charging
The Governor of the American state of Michigan has announced that the state would be the first roll out wireless electric vehicle charging built into roadways. Autoevolution.com reports Gretchen Whitmer is seeking partners to help develop and install such technology. However the report says Michigan is facing competition when it comes to the plan as […]
Gaist helps shape transport’s future with SMLL tie-up
The roadscape technology company Gaist says it’s set to play a central role in the next wave of intelligent mobility developments, following a collaboration with the world-leading testbed, the Smart Mobility Living Lab. The SMLL is to integrate Gaist’s Roads as a Service (“RaaS”) providing a number rich datasets and insight into its lab testbed: […]
TRL appointed project management lead of Digital Road for Evolving Connected and Automated Driving programme
TRL has been appointed project management lead on the Digital Road for Evolving Connected and Automated Driving (DiREC) programme. DiREC, is a two-year program that forms part of Europe’s CEDR Transnational Research Programme (TRP), aims to establish a connected and automated vehicle (CAV)-ready framework to prepare the highways for safe and smart CAV driving. TRL will […]
New alliance calls on government to make roads safer and healthier
A new pressure group is urging the Government to show leadership, through robust and new Road Safety Strategy policies and investment to make our roads and urban spaces safe and healthy. The Safe Roads for All Alliance says a new strategy is urgently needed and would “prevent thousands of tragic deaths, catastrophic injuries, killer respiratory […]
Project Endeavour concludes in London
The Project Endeavour driverless car pilot has concluded its multi-city demonstration of autonomous vehicle services with a final on-road trial in Greenwich, in which members of the public were able to ride in one of six Ford Mondeo vehicles integrated with Oxbotica’s autonomy software platform. After COVID-19 restrictions prevented public involvement in the earlier Oxford […]
TRL, AECOM and Pavement Testing Services win Highways England pavement testing contract work
TRL, AECOM and Pavement Testing Services have won contracts with Highways England for pavement testing work across the country. Work includes technical and intrusive pavement surveys, split into in six Lots across country. This will see engineers undertake coring of pavements to determine the pavement structure, layer thickness and condition as well as collate the […]
TRL announces electric HGV research project
TRL has announced it is leading a comprehensive study of an innovative Electric Road System applied to 44 tonne Heavy Goods Vehicles as a cost effective and feasible solution. ElectroRoad is part of the ZERFT programme, comprising 20 projects focussed on helping the UK solve challenges around zero emission road freight. Delivering the ElectroRoad project […]
Getting us all back together safely – this week’s Highways Voices podcast
“I may be smiling , but it’s been a difficult time planning an event in this COVID pandemic, but we’ve always taken the the attitude at JCT that we wanted to get this back as a physical event if we possibly could,” says JCT Director John Nightingale as he discusses putting on one of the […]
Digital Twin of road network moves closer thanks to Gaist and TRL tie-up
TRL and Gaist are collaborating to develop a national digital twin of the road network in a project they say could revolutionise how we plan and manage our roads. Gaist, whose expertise is in roadscape insight and intelligence services, is to explore with TRL what the detailed case is for a digital twin of the […]