Technology
Covid, the economy, and the Roads Policy Trilemma – Michael Whelan, M6Toll
Michael Whelan, General Manager at M6Toll looks at RUC trials in California, Utah and Washington state, and explains how lessons learnt could be applied in the UK The arrival of the Covid19 pandemic in the UK changed everything overnight, not least on our roads. The...
Getting the strategic road network ready for autonomous vehicles calls for collaboration – Joanna White, National Highways
Joanna White, Roads Development Director at National Highways, outlines the importance of collaboration and information sharing to successfully implement connected services. Vehicles are becoming increasingly more sophisticated, designed to keep us safer and make our...
The future of mobility is safer (and how we get there) – Jillian Kowalchuk, Safe and the City
Jillian Kowalchuk, Founder of Safe and the City explains how software and AI can help people feel safer when using the transport network Most people think of Safe & the City as just an app, but that isn’t the full picture. There’s more behind our technologies,...
Technology for a Better Journey – Kristof Harling, TAKELEAP
Kristof Harling, Executive Director at TAKELEAP, outlines the benefits of digital technology within road maintenance. The Department for Transport (DfT) has recognised the need to adopt new technology and AI driven data analytics to successfully deliver the UK's...
Hitting the bridge deck running as the new kid on the National Highways block – Rob Cook, Winvic
Rob Cook, Civils & Infrastructure Director at Winvic, talks about their delivery strategy and projects ahead of exhibiting at Highways UK this year. Since I was appointed by Winvic in the brand-new role of Director for Civils and Infrastructure, it has been a...
Using AI to monitor the impact of Covid-19 on our Highways
Author: Peter Mildon - COO and Co-Founder, Vivacity Labs Peter Mildon, COO and Co-Founder of Vivacity Labs, has been reviewing data from Vivacity’s national network of AI-based video road sensors to assess the impact of Covid-19 on our highways networks on a daily...
A new source of road construction data
Author: Tony Gosling - Chief Digital Officer, Pell Frischmann The design of highway schemes would be improved if designers and decision makers could easily understand the cost, time, risk and disruption impacts of individual design choices The traditional process...
Never, never, never give up
Author: Karla Wakeman, Innovation Lead for Connected Transport, Innovate UK Winston Churchill once said "never, never, never give up". A good moto for us all and often applies to finding funding for your projects and innovations. We witness this often at Innovate UK...
It’s time to get to grips with digital
Author: Lesley Waud - Transport Design Development Director, SNC-Lavalin Atkins By people, I really mean a culture and a mindset: a perception by many that doing things 'digitally' is a threat to long-held technical specialism or expertise. But I don't see it in those...
Future mobility, made possible
Author: John Batten - Global Cities Director, Arcadis By 2050, more than two thirds of the world's population will live in cities, and this rapid rise in urbanisation will dramatically reshape how we live our lives. From climate change to mobility, the impact of...
Help us hack the highways by better exploiting the value of data
Author: Charlie Henderson - Global Head of Roads, PA Consulting The UK highways sector needs to move faster and collaborate with those outside of traditional sector boundaries if we're to improve the industry and create a positive human future. Imagine if we could...
You can’t do Big Data if you can’t do Small Data
Author: Brian Fitzpatrick - Brian Fitzpatrick, Founder, Fitzpatrick Advisory The future of our infrastructure is digital, but just who is best placed to build the local authority capability to manage this revolution? Who will look after the impact of decisions made by...
Transport Technology Forum 2.0 hits the ground running
Author: Darren Capes - ITS Policy Lead for the Department for Transport's Traffic and Technology Division The TTF or Transport Technology Forum was relaunched on the 25March at an event in Central London. The Inaugural Forum meeting was attended by around 100...
Invest today to deliver the highway infrastructure of tomorrow
The UK's strategic road network is one of its most valuable national assets, key to our economic growth. Four million people use Highways England's strategic road network each day, and this is forecast to grow by over 40% by 2040. Just as an effective roads network is...
Change is in the air for logistics
Freight and logistics is a highly reactive industry which operates on tight profit margins, and as such is highly risk averse and resistant to change. However, the rising clean air agenda, with its revised focus on heavy goods vehicles as defined in the Government's...
Enabling emerging transport technology and intelligent mobility
Embedded into the government's industrial strategy and key to its implementation are four 'grand challenges' - artificial intelligence and data, ageing society, clean growth and the future of mobility. These reflect seismic global trends and meeting these challenges...
Taking a Human Factors Approach to Intelligent Mobility
Intelligent Mobility - a silver bullet? Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and the new public transport models and powertrain technologies which are developing with them, are regularly positioned as the solution to a wide range of societal challenges ranging...
Connecting new technologies with clients proves an impetus for investment and innovation
Things are moving on very quickly for smart road system developer Valerann since the company's proprietary technology was named overall winner of the 2017 Costain IIH Challenge, held at Highways UK last November. The Challenge is the core component of the...
Reaping the benefits of platooning trials
The UK is planning to stage the world's first ever real-world trial of heavy goods vehicles operating in a digitally linked platoon. This will involve specially adapted HGVs, connected through wireless technology so that the lead driver automatically controls the...
What to do about traffic jams?
In INRIX we are fortunate enough to have access to vast amounts of traffic data, which is used by our INRIX Research team to identify trends, insights and impacts of road congestion. One recent study by INRIX Research, which was covered extensively in the UK press by...
