SYSTRA is proud to be the headline sponsor of the Decarbonising Transport Awards 2026, a new initiative from Landor LINKS designed to recognise leadership, innovation and action on the path to net zero. As one of the UK’s leading transport and engineering... continue
Greater Manchester is set to benefit from over £30m of investment to make public transport and active travel safer, cleaner, and more accessible. Projects include improvements... continue
Trials of autonomous driving technology are to take place involving buses at two Metroline London depots. Led by Fusion Processing, the 10-month project will assess the feasibility of fully autonomous bus movements using Fusion’s CAVstar Automated Drive System on demonstration buses. Goal is... continue
Customer service concerns from the introduction of fully autonomous bus services with no staff have bee raised in a report by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) for DfT It raises questions about the prospects for the planned projects to test such service delivery using autonomous vehicles with... continue
Further funding for autonomous buses in Cambridgeshire has been confirmed. The Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) has secured an additional £1 million from the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) to expand its Connector project, now on test. The new phase... continue
Car parks can be associated with car crime or vandalism, but vehicle... continue
More than 17,000 electric vehicle chargepoints have been added to the UK network in the past year, reports the Department for Transport Future of Roads Minister Lilian Greenwood confirmed the number of chargepoints in the UK has grown by 27% in the past year, with 17,370 added since July... continue
New guidance to help boroughs roll out cross-pavement electric vehicle... continue
Advocacy bodies for new types of urban mobility have expressed hopes that the DfT will close the gap between the UK other countries that make far greater use of shared mobility. Local authorities are to be given new powers to manage on-street micromobility schemes through a licensing regime, as set... continue
An electric bike hire scheme is set to start in Cardiff next spring, replacing Nextbike, which ended its scheme in December 2023 due to high levels of vandalism and theft. The new scheme will be fully funded and operated by a private company, with the council saying it will only cover the cost of... continue
Air quality across Greater Manchester is getting better due to investments in cleaner, greener public transport. Newly released figures show that air pollution dropped again in 2024 in the city... continue
Half of drivers with disabilities are finding the weight of ultra-rapid EV charging cables a challenge to use. EVA’s Cable Weight Survey Report sets out how faster, and therefore heavier,... continue
More than 17,000 electric vehicle chargepoints have... continue
UK new vehicle manufacturing declined by -11.9% to 417,232 units in the first six months of the year, according to the latest figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders... continue
This week saw the return of an electric car grant for the first time since 2022 – a welcome move and one... continue
More than one in twenty car miles in the UK is now driven by a zero-emission car. Analysis by the RAC Foundation shows that at the end of 2024 zero-emission cars (almost universally pure... continue
The public and industry are being encouraged to share their view on future of self-driving vehicles before the first services... continue
The Department for Transport and Ministry of Housing and Local Government have finally launched what they describe as “the first nationally agreed measure of connectivity covering the whole of England and Wales” for trial use by local transport and planning authorities. The Connectivity... continue
The Department for Transport and Ministry of Housing and Local Government have finally launched what they describe as “the first nationally agreed measure of connectivity covering the whole of England and Wales” for trial use by local transport and planning authorities. The Connectivity... continue
Contrails - produced by aircraft engine exhaust – are a significant contributor to aviation’s non-CO2 impact on climate change, potentially higher than CO2 emissions in some cases, reveals a new report. There is an “urgent need” to examine the non-CO2 impacts of aviation, it... continue
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