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local-road-network

£626m local active travel allocations announced

12/12/2025

Active Travel England has announced £626m of new support for active travel, which will be allocated to local councils in England based on the recently published ‘capability ratings’.

highways-events

Announcing the Highways Champions Awards: Celebrating ingenuity, bravery and innovation

11/12/2025

Highways magazine launches the Highways Champions Awards, recognising the immense contribution of the people who keep the UK moving.

companies-and-contracts

Deadline extended for £60m East Midlands surfacing contract

10/12/2025

Nottinghamshire County Council has extended the deadline for its five-year, £60m surface treatment partnership contract that covers works across the East Midlands.

companies-and-contracts

Gloucestershire adds new road intelligence platform to armament

10/12/2025

Gloucestershire County Council has successfully procured a new road intelligence platform from Australian road data company Compass IoT, a tool that the council claims will ‘fundamentally reshape' how it understands risks and delivers interventions on the county's roads.

companies-and-contracts

Wirral tenders £42m, five-year maintenance contract

10/12/2025

A five-year road maintenance contract with an estimated value of up to £42m has been tendered by Wirral Council.

strategic-road-network

LTC begins tunneling machine procurement

10/12/2025

Procurement has begun for one of the world’s largest tunnelling machines to be used in the construction of National Highways’ Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), following the £891m included in the Autumn budget for the project.

companies-and-contracts

MAV Systems appointed to new UK Transport Technology framework

10/12/2025

Intelligent transport technology specialist, MAV Systems, has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) transport technology agreement, allowing public sector organisations to procure MAV’s advanced artificial intelligence platform.

partner-content

Highways Presents: Yunex Traffic's new AI video processing solution

10/12/2025

Highways editor Dominic Browne speaks to Jack Durdle, product lifecycle manager at Yunex Traffic, about the company’s groundbreaking new product, awareAI.

dft

CECA welcomes £725m skills reform package

08/12/2025

The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has welcomed the announcement of a £725m Government package for skills reforms, which will see 50,000 additional apprenticeship opportunities provided over the next three years.

nations-and-regions

'Share the Road to Zero': DfI road safety campaign gathers momentum

08/12/2025

Northern Ireland's ‘Share the Road to Zero' campaign, organised by the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), has gained the support of road safety charity, Road Safe NI.