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Delivery of better weather guidance to drivers is essential, especially real-time updates on the elements drivers face on the roads. This data combined with Vehicle Telem...
Volvo Construction Equipment and its customer Skanska have recorded groundbreaking results from their Electric Site research project โ including a 98% reduction in carbon...
While more than half of the UK public (53%) feel positive about the way technology is driving change in the country, there is some discomfort around one of the most discu...
Volvo Trucks has just signed a landmark agreement with Brรธnnรธy Kalk AS in Norway to provide its first commercial autonomous solution transporting limestone from an open p...
Network Rail is seeking a private sector partner to deliver a major digital railway transformation programme on the East Coast Main Line (ECML). The Railway Systems Integ...
At the CBI Annual Conference, Anne Sheehan, Enterprise Director for Vodafone outlined how Internet of Things (IoT) technology and a partnership with Admiral Insurance is...
The dramatic drop in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, which has fallen by 99 percent over the last four decades, is often touted as a major success story for...
Ask the average person on the street where garbage goes after the garbage truck picks it up and takes it away, and most will likely say, “the dump.” At one ti...
Hyundai Motor Company has announced a strategic partnership with Top Flight Technologies, Inc., a leading start-up in hybrid-electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) techno...
Technology company, Yotta has won a seven-year contract with CGI, a leading independent IT and business process service firm, to deliver asset management services and sol...
Did you know that cities account for three quarters of all global carbon emissions? Here we highlight the experts who are striving to create a cleaner and more socially r...
Metso is expanding its digital Metso Metrics offering with the launch of a new predictive maintenance solution for mining equipment, aimed to help maximize the uptime and...
ITM Monitoring a leader in the design and installation of bespoke geotechnical, structural and environmental monitoring systems, has released a new version of its data vi...
UK technology company, Sunstone, has raised more than ยฃ590,000 (ยฃ592,000) via the crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. The round, which ran for just over five weeks, saw ove...
The N3XTCON project running from 2018 to 2021 involves all aspects of 3D construction printing from materials recipes over reinforcement solutions and software control sy...
Trimble announces the release of the Trimbleยฎ Earthworks GO! Grade Control Platform, a 2D grade control solution for compact machine grading attachments. Trimble Earthwor...
As the demand grows for increased safety and productivity on the job site, the construction industry finds itself turning to new technology. One innovation that has revol...
An innovative scheme integrating wireless vehicle detection traffic signals, vehicle activated signs (VAS) and a hurry call system has reconfigured a hospital junction to...
The Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, has announced the official unveiling of its Harry digital planting robot at Agri-Tech Eastโs...
Trimble announced today the release of Trimble Earthworks Grade Control Platform version 1.7 with support for motor graders and automatic guidance for tiltrotator attachm...
Christian Wolmar argues there is still a long way to go before we throw our driving licenses into the sea. What might this mean for personal mobility and what are the rep...
MUJI and Finnish autonomous driving company Sensible 4 have combined their expertise to create an elegant robotbus, first in the world to function in all weather conditio...
An innovative noise barrier which will reduce the level of noise for residents living close to the M1 is being used in the UK for the first time. The barrier will be inst...
Kia Motors and Hyundai Motor have today announced plans to introduce โsolar roofโ charging technology on selected Hyundai Motor Group vehicles. Electricity-generating sol...
Astragon Entertainment and developer Jujubee are have announced the next license partner of their mobile game Truck Simulation 19. The originally licensed trucks of US ma...
With a groundbreaking Stirling engine from the Swedish environmental technology company Ripasso Energy, the largest “waste-to-energy” project of its kind ever...
Strategic Partnership with Danish technology leader in 3D concrete printing, Weissenhorn/Copenhagen The PERI Group, one of the world’s leading companies in the fiel...
Cleverciti Systems Corp., a leader in comprehensive, high-tech solutions for outdoor and on-street parking detection, monitoring and guidance, and FoxNet, a Waterloo-base...
A simple Google search for โconnected autonomous vehicles UKโ brings up over nine million hits, with most notably the UK Governments website providing a useful central po...
โPriming the Industry: An Innovation in Earthworks Monitoringโ Monday 26th November, 6pm to 8:30pm – Institution of Civil Engineers, London The increasing number an...
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd announced earlier this month that they have formed an agreement with KTEG Kiesel Technologie Entwicklung GmbH, the group company of...
StreetLight Data the leader in big data analytics for mobility, today announced another major transportation market innovation with the launch of its new Annual Average D...
Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the team calls โsyncellsโ (sho...
PCM, Inc. launched its Digital Job Box, a rugged solution that will transform the way the construction industry manages job site projects and connects remote workers to t...
Access control is defined as โthe selective restriction of access to a place or other resourceโ. For an automatic access control system to function, it requires a means o...
Costain, the smart infrastructure solutions company, provided the technology to power pioneering work led by Highways England to transform journeys with innovative techno...
Cleverciti Systems Corp., a leader in comprehensive, high-tech solutions for outdoor and on-street parking detection, monitoring and guidance, announced today it will deb...
MIT today announced a new $1 billion commitment to address the global opportunities and challenges presented by the prevalence of computing and the rise of artificial int...
Since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in the US mandated that all commercial vehicles over 10,000lbs be installed with Electronic Logging Devices...
and cyber security company eSentire has shared some tips and best practices on a variety of topics with us. This weekโs focus is phishing attacks and the importance of se...
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