21/03/2025
Hertfordshire County Council has awarded a new highways contract to Ringway, worth around £385m over its initial seven-year term.
01/05/2024
Highways sets out some of the many highlights of Traffex, the UK’s leading road and highways tradeshow, which takes place at the CBS Arena on 22-23 May.
07/03/2024
An autonomous highways repair robot has passed its first test outside of a lab environment in Hertfordshire, the county council has announced.
16/02/2024
National Highways is trialling a robotic dog as part of survey work alongside its South West road network.
18/01/2024
Pothole robots, record-breaking asphalt recycling, and a ban on carbon offsetting - all hot topics for the first episode of the All Roads Lead podcast from Highways magazine - the leading publication for UK roads.
10/01/2024
The world's first autonomous pothole repair robot, developed by tech company Robotiz3d, is about to undergo its first road test in Hertfordshire.
26/07/2023
National Highways has announced the seven companies making the shortlist in its new carbon reduction competition, with each set to receive between £15,000 and £30,000 to develop its ideas.
22/03/2023
Experts have told MPs that the biggest challenge to the adoption of self-driving vehicles is the public perception that they are not as safe as they should be.
29/09/2022
A new research alliance has been launched to lead a £14.5m programme that aims to help shape the development of innovation in the industry over the next five years.
24/05/2022
Self-driving car developer Oxbotica has completed what it says is the first ‘safe and sustainable’ deployment of a zero-occupancy, fully autonomous vehicle on publicly accessible roads in Europe.
06/05/2022
Econ’s new depot and workshop facility in Sowerby, near Thirsk in Yorkshire, is a tour de force of productive investment, a testimony to what the company means to the community it serves so well, and to what the community means to the company.
26/08/2021
National Highways has announced the five winners of its competition to find new ways to remove graffiti from alongside roads, or prevent it from appearing in the first place.
29/07/2021
As Transport for London's lane rental scheme approaches a decade of operation, the capital's transport authority celebrated the £25m it has raised for 79 projects to improve roadworks.
27/10/2020
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have claimed that autonomous AI robots could be used to detect and repair potholes and road defects by 2021.
06/02/2020
The A14 improvement scheme – Britain’s biggest road project – is set to open more than half a year early, Highways England has announced.
02/01/2020
A ‘clever little robot’ has saved hundreds of hours of working time on projects across the country, Highways England has said.
28/10/2019
Sustainable transportation infrastructure company ABB has announced is set to acquire a majority stake of 67% in Shanghai Chargedot New Energy Technology (“Chargedot”), a leading Chinese e-mobility solution provider.
07/10/2019
Gulf Traffic, an annual event that takes place from the 9 – 11 of December this year, will bring to light some of the latest technologies and systems from global suppliers to Dubai – the centre of business in the Middle East and North Africa.
20/09/2019
A number of AI roads systems are currently available and are developing all the time. The main focus at the moment is on surveying the network, and using AI to identify not just assets but the condition the assets are in.
28/08/2019
As part of its Ventures innovation investment fund Coca-Cola European Partners is piloting robotic technology at Alton Towers Resort. Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) Ventures is working
20/08/2019
TDK Ventures has announced that its made a $50 million first investment in autonomous delivery service Starship Technologies. As an investor in Starship’s $40 million Series
05/08/2019
Electrify America has announced its collaboration with Stable to deploy a robotic fast-charging facility for self-driving electric vehicle fleets. The collaboration is said to deploy
01/08/2019
Automotive company Ford has acquired robotics company Quantum Signal. Michigan-based Quantum Signal is reported to have produced mobile robots for the U.S military. TechCrunch reports
22/07/2019
Toyota has announced a hi-tech way to fetch javelins and hammers at the 2020 Olympic games: pint-sized, self-driving A.I. robot cars. The Japanese automaker has unveiled
18/07/2019
Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has said that ‘a massive effort’ is required for its driverless cars to get to ‘99.999’ safety. In a recent tweet,
12/07/2019
Sensor and software company Luminar has raised $100 million in funding to help it scale production of LiDAR sensors for autonomous vehicles. The $100 million
18/06/2019
Emma Greedy reports from the Atkins’ new London headquarters near Victoria Station, where the global consultancy’s new president, Philip Hoare, said it is looking to ‘jump off the kerb’ and make a difference with its technology.
12/06/2019
At its latest annual meeting, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ‘softened’ his claim of having a driverless taxi fleet on the roads by 2020. At
19/03/2019
An American supermarket is about to launch a trial of driverless delivery robots in the Texan city of Houston. According to ABC News, Two Kroger
07/02/2019
Gatwick Airport plans to trial a robotic valet car parking system later this year and has put in a planning application to Crawley Borough Council for the necessary structures.
09/01/2019
Four universities are to share £7m in government cash to develop micro robots that could repair cracks in pipes, with the aim of cutting roadworks and improving worker safety.
30/10/2018
The connected vehicle technology company Cohda Wireless says it has successfully demonstrated its vehicle-to-everything solution to prevent a car crash in the centre of the
25/10/2018
Delegates at CAV Scotland 2018 will be able to enjoy an autonomous driving experience in a colourful and distinctive AurriGo PodZero, designed to carry four
24/10/2018
New technology and innovation needs real-world application to succeed, writes Steve Birdsall, chief executive of Gaist.
06/09/2018
A number of new businesses working on smart transport solutions such as the prediction of road accidents, managing autonomous vehicles, making it easier to park
09/07/2018
A leading transport journalist has written a hard-hitting article explaining why he thinks the timescales and benefits of driverless vehicles is vastly overhyped. Writing in
18/06/2018
Technology to boost the safety of road users will be among the biggest demonstration highlights of next week’s Traffex Seeing is Believing event at Bruntingthorpe
19/01/2018
Uber says it’s planning to carry passengers in autonomous vehicles without human backup drivers “at the latest sometime next year.” Associated Press reports that the
27/11/2017
Autonomous Vehicles driving on our roads will need to operate more cautiously than the average driver in order to foster public trust in the technology according to one of the UK's driverless car projects.
05/07/2017
Ford says it is making "great progress" towards its goal of deploying its first fully autonomous car in 2021.
31/05/2017
Uber has parted company with Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the centre of its fight with self-driving rival Waymo.
02/05/2017
Disney World Resort in Florida is said to be planning to launch the highest-profile commercial driverless vehicle deployment ever, testing a fleet of driverless shuttles that could move passengers through car parks and around its theme parks.
20/03/2017
A leaked reports says that driverless Uber cars needed a driver to manually override its autonomous technology every mile.
09/01/2017
A new report by KPMG says the country's automotive executives expect that more than half of today's car owners will not want to own a car in less than a decade.
04/01/2017
The 50th Consumer Electronics Show is underway in Las Vegas with the largest ever presence from the auto industry.
20/09/2016
A group of researchers in Amsterdam has started work on the world's first programme to produce autonomous boats in metropolitan areas.
27/06/2016
A group of organisations have announced a £10,000 contest to find innovative solutions to help better inform and communicate with the public about forthcoming and ongoing roadworks.
02/11/2015
The University of Leeds is leading a £4.2m national infrastructure research project with the vision of creating self-repairing cities.
21/10/2015
Honda Motor Company has announced it aims to sell a car with automated highway driving functions around 2020.
18/09/2015
It's reported an Apple executive has met officials from the Californian Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to discuss their plans for an autonomous vehicle.
16/09/2015
It's reported BMW is preparing to rethink its products, design and business models for the advent of driverless cars.
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