This category brings together commercially relevant news, industry signals and infrastructure intelligence, helping readers follow the people, projects, technologies and markets driving change across the sector.
With just 13 days to go before Christmas, Highways England has called on the main man to help remind drivers to check their vehicles before travelling this festive season...
Siemens, a global leader in traffic management technology, has unveiled a new range of passively safe traffic signal poles. Performance-rated against BS EN 12767, the new...
Highways England are adding more than 240 miles of extra capacity to the strategic road network by expanding the use of smart motorways and intelligent road markings. Sma...
Brake, the national road safety charity founded and lead the annual Road Safety Week, which takes place this week, the 20th β 26th November. This yearβs theme is Speed Do...
More than 950 Highways England Traffic Officers are being trained in life saving first aid, giving them enhanced skills which may be used to help casualties in need of ur...
One in five patients admitted to trauma centres in the UK were involved in road crashes in 2016 according to new figures obtained by Brake, the road safety charity. Road...
The rise in the number of cycling accidents caused by deteriorating road surfaces underlines calls for a national statutory standard definition of what comprises a pothol...
Car Parks are a very importantΒ part of the UK’s road network – and are often forgotten about when it comes to marking to high specifications. With around 20,0...
Highways Englandβs team of 1,300 specially trained gritter drivers based across the country are geared up for winter β and are urging drivers to do the same. The company...
A new survey of delegates at Highways UK, the UKβs premier highway event attended by 2,000 road-safety professionals, reveals attitudes towards adopting new technologies...
With the traditional catβs eye road stud set for a rebrand after councils reported complaints over βcats eyes removedβ warning signs, itβs important we understand the dif...
With an ambition to set a common safety standard for more than 50 thousand workers across its whole supply chain, Highways England has today (8 November 2017) announced a...
An innovative solar powered road stud which offers drivers 10 times greater visibility of the road ahead than traditional ‘cat’s eyes’ is today being un...
The shocking footage above was released by Highways England today and show drivers watching DVDs, reading books, and even boiling a dashboard kettle. One driver in...
Victoria, Australia, is leading the way in road safety with more than 75,000 children benefiting from an Australian-first “Starting Out Safely”, road safety e...
The UK is the third most congested country in Europe and we spend an average of 32 hours each year stuck in peak hour traffic. According to the latest report from Inrix t...
Recently, the presence of bright and colourful surface markings has become more and more prominent on British roads. This is a major contrast to the usual white demarcati...
Last month’s reported road casualties in Great Britain: 2016 annual report revealed a 4% increase in the number of reported road safety deaths. While this is not a...
Wearable technology which could reduce risks to drivers and lone workers has been trialled by highways engineers working for leading service provider Amey. Biometric and...
For the second year running, Highways England and DeerAware – The Deer Initiative have joined forces to warn motorists about the heightened risk of deer-vehicle col...
worldβs first responsive road crossing is being showcased in London as a prototype solution, aimed at tackling the 7,000+ incidents recorded each year at UK crossings bet...
Working in the construction industry can be tough, strenuous and at times, stressful. Itβs a manual industry where injury and ill health are not uncommon, which is why Vo...
Construction has begun on a $2.5 million project to install a range of bike safety treatments aimed at keeping motorcyclists safer on the Northern Coromandel Loop. Safer...
The tech company Edeva from Sweden has developed a dynamic speed bump, called the Actibump, that has proven its efficiency through years of use in Sweden. The Actibump pr...
New multilingual signs are being rolled out along the Great Ocean Road to help international tourists safely navigate one of Victoriaβs most popular tourist routes. In an...
The latest reported road casualties in Great Britain figures are due out later this month. Based on the last 5 years of results, a sudden decline in road deaths in not an...
Sunburn on the up with tradespeople most at risk in the UK One in ten donβt wear sun cream for fear of workmates mocking them Wickes trials nationwide roll out of free su...
Colas in partnership with US companies Royal Truck and Equipment (RT&E) and Micro Systems Inc. (MSI) have developed the worldβs first Autonomous Impact Protection Veh...
Last 4-tonne concrete blocks lifted into place on M6 A new 20-mile-long concrete safety barrier on the M6 in Cheshire is nearing completion as part of a Β£274 million proj...
Flying debris that travels faster than a bullet is just one of the hazards facing Highways England repair teams working on Birmingham’s SpaghettiΒ Junction. As part...
The 11th road safety performance index report was released last month. This report monitors progress on the European Unionβs commitment to reduce road deaths by 50% betwe...
Employers pay nearly US$1 billion per week in direct workersβ compensation costs in the USA, according to some estimates, reports OSHA. Indirect costs add up further. Roa...
The first of a new-style smart motorway emergency area, where drivers can stop in an emergency, is being trialled on the M3 in Surrey. The redesigned emergency area has a...
Siemens, a global leader in traffic management technology, has recently completed the deployment of the UKβs largest, and busiest, permanent average speed enforcement sys...
Leading construction and engineering company BAM Nuttall is rolling out a range of work clothing nationwide, specifically designed for women, following trials on a number...
The World Bank, in partnership with the European Transport Safety Council, the Romanian Ministry of Transport and the National Road Authority (Autoritatea RutierΔ RomΓ’nΔ)...
Work to improve journeys for drivers on the A20 approaching the Port of Dover is making good progress, Highways England said today (4 July 2017). The update came at Highw...
1,810 people died on the UKβs roads in the year ending September 2016 according to the Department for Transportβs (DfT) provisional estimates. Thatβs a 2.4% increase from...
JCB is set to bring new levels of innovation and safety to the site dumper market with the unveiling of a new concept seven tonne Hi-Viz model as the company announces pl...
JCB has its sights set on a new market after launching a range of branded prescription safety glasses with leading high street retailer Specsavers. JCB already licences a...
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