Court of Appeal rules £200m active travel cuts were unlawful12/06/2025 The Court of Appeal has ruled that £200m worth of cuts to active travel made in March 2023 were unlawful. |
DfT fast-tracks self-driving vehicle pilots12/06/2025 The first trials of autonomous taxi and bus services without a safety driver will be fast-tracked, the Government has said. |
DfT announces AI transport action plan11/06/2025 The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a new action plan for artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in transport. |
ADEPT launches 'sector-wide' highways carbon calculation programme05/06/2025 Place directors in ADEPT have launched a 'first-of-its-kind' programme, with the support of the Department for Transport, to give English local highway authorities the funds to measure and reduce their carbon emissions. |
Government drops planning requirements on EV chargepoints03/06/2025 The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that planning permission is no longer needed to install both public and private electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints. |
DfT announces new head of road infrastructure tech02/06/2025 One of the leading figures in the ITS sector, Darren Capes, has been appointed as head of road infrastructure technology at the Department for Transport (DfT). |
Greenwood: Still moving fast and fixing things30/05/2025 Speaking exclusively to Highways, the future of roads minister Lilian Greenwood suggested her plans for highways maintenance are still evolving. |
Leeds to start work on £44m improvement scheme13/05/2025 Leeds City Council has announced ‘significant enabling work’ will start this month for a £44m scheme at Dawsons Corner and Stanningley bypass. |
£49m Lyminster bypass is now open13/05/2025 The new Lyminster bypass – which cost roughly £49.87m – is now open, allowing for ‘faster and more convenient journeys’ between Littlehampton and Bognor Regis. |
Travel still below pre-pandemic levels, NTS results show09/05/2025 The Department for Transport (DfT) has recently published both the results of the latest National Travel Survey (NTS) and its mid-year estimates. |
DfT buries carbon reduction guidance09/05/2024 The Department for Transport (DfT) has buried carbon reduction guidance that it drew up but has never released, Highways can reveal. |
An open letter to Santa Claus from a local highways department20/12/2023 Director of the RAC Foundation, Steve Gooding, dials up his Christmas cheer with a competitive bid to be on the ‘nice’ list |
DfT confirms £8.3bn local roads plan with new duties for councils16/11/2023 Transport secretary Mark Harper has confirmed fresh details around the £8.3bn 11-year roads investment plan, set out in the wake of cuts to HS2, including new duties for councils. |
CECA and DfT sign delivery partnership deal15/07/2021 The Civil Engineering Contractors Association has signed a partnership agreement with the Department for Transport to support 'the optimal delivery of infrastructure investment across Britain'. |
'Spring 2021' timeline for councils to moving traffic enforcement powers07/10/2020 Councils in England could have control of enforcement powers for moving traffic violations by the middle of next year, the Department for Transport’s head of traffic and technology has said. |
Q and A with Mathew Lugg: Self-assessment, self-assessed13/02/2020 A top sliced cash pot is not really supposed to change a sector. It’s a politician’s gift, a press release, a civil servant’s pet project. In highways it often just shores up finance that had bled off into other services anyway. The highways self-assessment process was different. |
DfT to work on cross-government local roads funding solution28/10/2019 The Department for Transport has backed calls for long-term funding for local roads and suggested this could include a cross-government proposal to Treasury to pool funding with the communities department. |
The transformation is afoot: How the DfT is helping roads go digital18/09/2019 Work is progressing in central and local government to standardise highways and transport digital systems and build national guidance, as well as pan-European frameworks. |
Shapps takes over at DfT25/07/2019 Grant Shapps MP has replaced Chris Grayling as secretary of state for transport in Boris Johnson’s new cabinet. |
DfT lacks spark in electric revolution21/06/2019 While the prime minister has made tackling climate change a key part of her legacy and parts of the UK have declared a climate emergency, Highways can reveal that the Department for Transport has failed to enact key aspects of the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act, which would force major fuel suppliers to provide electric vehicle charging. |
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