Comment: Stop and think on touchless push buttons
03/12/2020
Mark Pleydell, executive committee member of the Association for Road Traffic Safety and Management (ARTSM), discusses non-contact alternatives to pedestrian push buttons.
Highways England grasps the nettle of biodiversity02/12/2020 Highways England has announced a new biodiversity policy for verges and the land around the country's motorways and major roads to promote wildflowers and pollinators. |
AI system could revolutionise carbon analysis03/12/2020 A consortium has won £800,000 to develop an embodied carbon analytics AI system that could cut the time it takes to analyse infrastructure carbon impacts from weeks to hours. |
Carrington Bridge is UK first for new high strength steel03/12/2020 A new higher-strength grade of weathering steel has been successfully installed for the Carrington Bridge project in what is thought to be a UK first. |
The long read: Drones - a line of future sight03/12/2020 Drone are set to play an increasing role in both construction and maintenance on the road network. Chris Ames scans the horizon |
Legal action looms over Stonehenge 'vandalism'01/12/2020 A coalition of campaigners has taken the first step towards a legal challenge against the Government’s plan to build a tunnel at Stonehenge. |
Amey makes friends in the north with £180m Area 12 deal02/12/2020 Amey has scooped the Area 12 Maintenance and Response contract for Highways England, worth an estimated £180m. |
Exclusive: Ministers dump VED pledge and strip local roads of billions01/12/2020 The Government appears to have abandoned its commitment to create a National Roads Fund (NRF) through the hypothecation of vehicle excise duty (VED), undoing a long-standing promise without informing MPs or the public. |
Lower Thames Crossing planning permission failures revealed30/11/2020 The Planning Inspectorate has released a list of reasons why it was set to turn down Highways England's planning application for the Lower Thames Crossing. |
Scale up talking traffic development, DfT report says27/11/2020 Transport technology experts have urged ministers to ‘pick up and run with’ the findings of a new report that calls for a step change in work to exploit connected vehicle data. |
New road gets £110m but 'cost could rise'27/11/2020 Lincolnshire County Council has been allocated £110m government funding towards the North Hykeham Relief Road but has warned that the cost may well rise beyond its current £155m price tag. |
Wales makes active interactive with live maps27/11/2020 The Welsh Government has launched an interactive map to gather opinions about local walking and cycling paths from communities in several areas across Wales. |
Exclusive: Ministers dump VED pledge and strip local roads of billions
Spending review gives £1.7bn to local roads
Lower Thames Crossing planning application delayed after facing failure
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Big Interview: IHE President Stephen Webb
ADEPT Traffic Managers' Conference
Legal: JV or not JV?
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