Applications open for self-driving vehicle services
Applications are now open for operators to run self-driving passenger services on UK roads.
Applications are now open for operators to run self-driving passenger services on UK roads.
One of the leading figures in UK bitumen production, Professor John Read, has been elected as an honorary fellow of the Institute of Asphalt Technology (IAT), 35 years after he joined the institute.
Next month will see a changing of the guard at the top of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) as current president Mitesh Solanki passes the mantle to current vice-president Kate Carpenter.
An updated version of the seminal document in highways maintenance, Well-managed Highway Infrastructure, code of practice has been released for consultation by the UK Roads Leadership Group (UKRLG) following a major review process.
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Hill & Smith Infrastructure has unveiled it's latest breakthrough, the Incursion Defender, providing industry with a major advance in on-site worker protection.
Heidelberg Materials has successfully used hydrogen to decarbonise asphalt production on an industrial scale for the first time in the UK.
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS
Comment: Wet wet wet (or poetic licence and the structures fund)
Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation and former DfT director general, discusses the impact of April showers, subsoil issues and what could make a good inclusion in the Department for Transport's newly launched Structures Fund.
Analysis: Is automated Waymo fun for London?
Deputy editor George Barker looks at automated taxi service provider, Waymo, some of the issues it has faced across the pond and what, if anything, is being done to avoid repeating the same mistakes when it comes to London.