The Second Annual TRANStech Awards has been confirmed to be taking place on Friday 30 October 2020 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London. About the TRANStech Awards Across... continue
Aira, along with tech leaders Moovit and Azure Maps, have joined forces to make public transit in and around urban areas more inclusive for blind and low vision riders and others by bringing together the technological expertise of each company to remove barriers that people with vision loss face in... continue
Large-scale new developments have a role in helping to meet housing needs, and have at times received formal Government support. The latest iteration – Garden Communities – was launched in 2014, and the programme now includes 49 projects extending across all regions of England. Consultancy Lichfields has reviewed all 49 Garden... continue
Children from less affluent families are less likely to participate in physical activity than their wealthier peers, suggests new figures from Sport England. The data, from the... continue
Welsh transport minister Ken Skates has said his... continue
Aberdeenshire Council is to start charging motorists for using its network of publicly accessible electric vehicle charging points. About 25,000 charging events have taken place at Aberdeenshire’s charge points in the last 12 months, costing the council £36,847 for... continue
All taxis licensed for the first time by Cambridge city and South Cambridgeshire district councils may soon have to be ultra-low or zero emission. Cambridge City Council has introduced the requirement to its licensing policy from April 2020 and South Oxfordshire District councillors last... continue
Reading borough Council has ruled out installing electric vehicle charging points in lamp posts on most of the residential streets it has surveyed. Reading received funding from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for the ‘Go Electric Reading’ project to... continue
Local government in Scotland is starting to explore opportunities for collaboration on electric vehicle charge point installation, in order to dramatically expand levels of provision. The board of Scotland’s Road Collaboration Programme has identified EV chargepoint design and... continue
Watford Borough Council has appointed Arriva to deliver its... continue
Gloucestershire County Council is developing plans for two new demand responsive transport minibus services, in the Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean. The services would cover geographical areas rather than fixed routes and operate on request rather than to a timetable. Hours of operation would be... continue
Transport for London has alerted the market to a forthcoming procurement of a real-time information system for bus stops. “Currently, the only real-time information of this kind that is available at bus stops is displayed via the Countdown screen, found in some bus shelters,” TfL... continue
Transport for London wants to procure a system for measuring bus capacity using CCTV cameras. “Due to the current system of payment on buses, customers are only obliged to ‘tap-in’ using their oyster/contactless payment,” says TfLs’ prior information notice for the... continue
Emerging proposals for introducing a default 20mph speed... continue
free travel for Londoners aged 60-64 should be phased out... continue
London Councils is looking to take on a bigger role in climate change activity. The borough body wants to appoint a lead climate change officer and plans to “assist with establishing a robust baseline of emissions as well as key performance indicator framework across London boroughs”.... continue
The Rail Safety and Standard Board (RSSB) is undertaking a programme of research into rail emissions and alternatives to diesel. One project will develop a method for reporting rail sector carbon dioxide emissions. This could inform target setting. The project will establish a... continue
The Metropolitan Police envisages being able to process one million speeding offences a year from 2022, borough association London Councils said this week. Julian Bell, chair of the London Councils transport and environment committee, told members of a meeting held last month with... continue
The Transport Research Laboratory has developed a new risk tool to calculate the route-by-route collision risk for road journeys, which can be adjusted according to the presence of different in-car technologies. The route risk tool allows routes across the UK to be mapped for their collision r... continue
The use of trip matrices based on mobile phone... continue
Hydrogen has become a hot topic – again, and for good reason as net zero legislation means we have to adopt low carbon transport solutions. While battery electric vehicles (EVs) are a viable technology for cars and vans, bigger vehicles require bigger batteries. This typically increases... continue
TransportXtra is part of Landor LINKS
© 2019 TransportXtra | Landor LINKS Ltd | All Rights Reserved
Subscriptions, Magazines & Online Access Enquires
[Frequently Asked Questions]
Email: subs.ltt@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7959
Shop & Accounts Enquires
Email: accounts@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7855
Advertising Sales & Recruitment Enquires
Email: daniel@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7861
Events & Conference Enquires
Email: conferences@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7865
Press Releases & Editorial Enquires
Email: info@transportxtra.com | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7875
