Waltham Forest council is offering its employees free hire of electric bikes to use for work-related trips. Ten e-bikes, supplied by Freebike, will be made available to staff during a one-month trial. Staff can activate the dockless system by using the Freebike App/Staff card. A council spokeswoman... continue
Traffic and parking management professionals will be... continue
French parking company Indigo sold several of its European subsidiaries to, including the UK, Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia operations, to Spain’s Saba Infraestructuras. The sale reflects Indigo’s strategy to focus on... continue
The British Parking Awards 2019 recognises excellence in management, design and innovation in both the on-street and off-street parking sector. To give... continue
The RSPB can install pay & display to charge for parking at Elin’s Tower and at South Stack near Holyhead on Anglesey. The cliffs at South Stack are breeding grounds for guillemots, razorbills and puffins during springtime and a busy tourist attraction. Local councillors had rejected the... continue
A major review of fire safety in car parks is required following the blaze that destroyed a multi-storey car park in Liverpool almost a year ago. The... continue
Private parking firms are on course to issue 6.8 million a year, the equivalent of one parking charge notice being written every five seconds, the RAC Foundation claims. The motoring research body has analyses information published by the DVLA that shows in the second quarter of 2018-19 the agency... continue
Using a camera car to enforce parking regulations at bus stops, schools and pedestrian crossings helps the most vulnerable members of society, according to an authority that recently began its own mobile enforcement. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council (RCT) is one of several Welsh unitary authorities... continue
Mobile parking payments provider PayByPhone has appointed Jonny Combe as chief executive officer for the UK. Combe was brought into... continue
Oren Peleg, the former global chief executive of Fitness First, has been appointed as executive chairman of JustPark. Peleg specialises in accelerating business growth and was credited with transforming the fortunes of the Fitness First... continue
Alan Grix has been named as the new managing director of Scheidt & Bachmann (UK). He has been the company’s sales director since 2000. Grix takes over from Martin Hughes, managing director of Scheidt & Bachmann... continue
Joost van der Willik has been appointed as the new managing director of Nedap Identification Systems, a supplier of traffic and parking management systems. “For many years, Nedap... continue
German parking and refuelling systems manufacturer Hectronic has appointed two further managing directors to support existing managing... continue
A real-world simulation analysis that demonstrates that switching to totally autonomous vehicles significantly reduces urban congestion by a factor of 10, but that mixing human and robot drivers together will increase traffic jams by over 16%. The micro-simulation was based on a major intersection in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, notorious for its evening traffic jams. This five-lane highway includes two lanes turning left and one to... continue
The legal and ethical implications of driverless vehicles threaten their development, warns research from Université Paris-Saclay. The two main issues that self-transport vehicles face are the protection of personal data and responsibility, says Professor Mélanie... continue
The UK’s intelligent transport sector appears to be split over whether taxpayers’ money should be spent on the development of driverless cars, the outcome of a debate at the ITS (UK) Summit in Bristol... continue
Driver assistance systems are evolving to the point were a driver does not have to be in a car when parking. A number of car-makers are now experimenting with systems that enable a vehicle to head off into a car park... continue
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