VESOS sponsored Mini achieves a First at Donington

The specialist eCall consultancy and software company VESOS Solutions is combining its passions for motorsport and road safety by supporting industry colleague Olly Samways from in his 1992 Mini Cooper and 1964 Mini Cooper S in historic racing. Olly started racing at the young age of 10 and has achieved many wins over his recent […]

Westcotec demonstrates latest roadside technology to deliver safer roads for all

A line-up of intelligent roadside safety and information applications have been demonstrated by Norfolk-based technology firm Westcotec at the UTAC Proving Ground in Bedfordshire. An audience of senior representatives from the Department for Transport, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Centre for Connected and Automated Vehicles attended the event, organised by the Transport Technology […]

Westcotec’s Heathrow Airport Perimeter Road casualty reduction scheme wins ITS UK award

A casualty reduction system installed by Norfolk-based road safety technology firm Westcotec has won this year’s ITS UK ‘Changing behaviour with Technology’ award.  Implementation of the system on the busy Perimeter Road at Heathrow Airport in west London has brought about a 70 per cent reduc tion in collisions and a three per cent reduction […]

DfT stalwart Hanson wins top ITS UK honour

One of the most influential professionals in the UK ITS industry, Graham Hanson, has won the Rees Hills Award for Personal Contribution and Achievement at the Intelligent Transport Systems UK awards in London, while Valerann, AGD Systems, Westcotec and Yunex Traffic were among others honoured at the prestigious event. The Rees-Hills award is named in […]

Expert views on the state of the industry, driverless pod deployment at the NEC and even saving money on corporate travel – all on a bonus Highways Voices from Highways UK

Find out about how networking at an event like Highways UK can spawn products nobody’s thought of, how new innovation was showcased at the event, how taxpayers’ money has delivered significant benefits for road users in Rotherham and how surface treatments are an under-used solution in the UK – all on the bonus Highways Voices […]

Westcotec gives more detail of its Westconnect online management tool

After launching it at Highways UK last week, Norfolk-based road safety technology firm Westcotec has given more details of its brand new online management platform that connects the entire Westcotec product range to a secure platform that can be accessed through any web browser. The platform, known as ‘Westconnect’, can be used for management, maintenance, […]

UK transport technology leaders gear up for the ITS World Congress in Dubai

Participants in the UK Pavilion at next week’s ITS World Congress in Dubai have spoken of their excitement at taking part in the global event, calling it an “invaluable opportunity to forge new business partnerships.” Eleven small and medium enterprises are exhibiting on the pavilion which is hosted by the Local Council Roads Innovation Group […]

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