About Talking Highways
Ideas to challenge, stimulate and inspire
‘Talking Highways’ provides a platform for our speakers, sponsors and associations to delve into the detail of their recent and upcoming projects.
Acting as a preview in the lead up to the Highways UK exhibition on 2nd-3rd November at the NEC in Birmingham, the blog will highlight key themes, topics and debates central to the agenda. Contributors are experts in their field, whether it be automated construction, road safety, or simply where they see their organisation heading in the next decade.
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Do standards stifle innovation? – Andy Fish, 3M
Andy Fish, technical specialist for 3M's Transportation Safety Division, looks at how to encourage innovation in a regulated market. As someone who has sat on many standard setting committees and industry bodies, across several industries, I have often pondered why...
Inclusive Infrastructure Solutions – Mathew Haslam, Hardscapes
Mathew Haslam, managing director at Hardscape outlines their extensive product range with the UK’s largest selection of Connectivity Solutions Products. Proudly independent and with over 25 years of expertise in pushing the boundaries of hard landscaping, Hardscape is...
Attracting new labour into highways – Ben Rawding, JCB
Ben Rawding from JCB stresses the importance of new technologies to tackle the labour shortages and attract new talent to the sector. Today the highways teams within British local authorities face a number of challenges, and as an industry we must do more to support...
Could innovations in wireless communications be the key to better roadworker safety? – dBD Communications
Brooke Wood from dDB Communications emphasises the need for investment in wireless communications to improve roadworker safety. Every day and night, over 3,000 highways engineers work across the UK’s 670-mile network of motorways and A-roads to keep our roads safe and...
Urban Trees, Highways and Utilities – Hannah Cook, GreenBlue Urban
Hannah Cook at GreenBlue Urban emphasises the importance of green infrastructure within the road network as towns and cities across the UK expand. With increasing urbanisation of our towns and cities, the pressure to plant trees is huge. Priorities are under...
Delivering cleaner and fairer transport for Oxfordshire – Duncan Enright
Councillor Duncan Enright, Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Travel and Development Strategy, looks at the future of transport in the county Oxford and Oxfordshire weren’t built for motorised transport. Our historic county deserves an excellent travel...
The road to gender balance – Sonya Byers, Women in Transport
Sonya Byers, CEO of Women in Transport, outlines the gender bias and stereotyping still present in the transport sector which limits women's progression Transport is a wonderful sector to be a part of - full of opportunity, innovation and great people. Our research...
How mobility hubs and shared transport can play a key role in the UK’s journey to net zero – Richard Dilks, CoMoUK
Richard Dilks, Chief Executive at CoMoUK, explains how mobility hubs and shared transport schemes can play a significant role in the UK’s journey to Net Zero by cutting congestion and carbon emissions while improving air quality and the nation’s health. At...
