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Mayoral Data Council to drive local input into public sector digital landscape

17/12/2024

Mayoral authorities will be offered a place on a new Mayoral Data Council which will work with central government departments on digital services and solutions, under plans outlined by ministers.

New 'contract maturity needed' in world of data currency

13/06/2022

A new model of local authority highways contract is needed to take into account the increasingly important issue of data, a key figure in the sector has said.

DfT takes first steps towards reforming condition data

08/11/2019

The Department for Transport has launched a survey of how organisations monitor and collect road condition data, which could lay the foundations for a programme of reform.

Comment: Controlling traffic signals from the cloud

11/09/2018

Stephen Russell, transportation director at engineering consultancy Sweco UK, explains that using data-driven technology to optimise traffic flows could help unlock one of the UK’s major transport challenges.

Integrate data work to help councils, ADEPT tells STBs

27/06/2018

The president of council directors’ body ADEPT has revealed plans to support local government data initiatives in partnership with industry and the Department for Transport.

Exclusive briefing on Government's UTMC and data catalogue reviews

31/05/2018

The Department for Transport (DfT) has commissioned the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) to carry out two reviews of potential major changes to the highways and transport data world.

Council to use floating vehicle data in groundbreaking signal trial

19/04/2018

The city of York is set to launch a groundbreaking scheme to trial using data from vehicles for signal control to improve junction performance.

Jenoptik acquires ESSA Technology

23/01/2017

Jenoptik Traffic Solutions UK has acquired ESSA Technology, a UK software developer specialising in police and enforcement back office solutions.

New OS system will provide roads information

17/11/2016

Ordnance Survey (OS) has created a new road network dataset that will bring together the best available information on the roads to create a single authoritative view of the network.

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