New safety technology including automatic braking and audible warning systems are to be tested on buses in London in a trial run by the Transport Research Laboratory. Engineers and technical specialists will work with Transport for London (TfL), bus manufacturers and operators to trial a range of safety measures. The results of the trials will feed into a new Bus Safety Standard that will be incorporated into bus operator contracts from the end of 2018. TfL has also published a report on Intelligent Speed Assistance after a trial in 2016. Bus operators will be required to fit the technology, which limits the speed at which buses are able to travel, from the end of this year. This forms part of Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s ‘Vision Zero’ approach to road danger, set... continue
The average British motorist wastes £968 and spends nearly... continue
Police forces across Wales will now accept... continue
Islington Council has been fined £70,000 by... continue
Most fares on park-and-ride bus services in Leicester will increase this autumn as the city and county council strive to eliminate the subsidy for the services. Users of period passes will see prices cut. The price of an adult day ticket will rise from £3 to £3.50 and a concessionary... continue
A bus operator in Cambridgeshire has called on the area’s elected mayor to implement bus franchising. Whippet Coaches issued the call ahead of its withdrawal from 16 routes on 3 September. Whippet said the routes, a mixture of commercial and contracted, had been operating at a loss for... continue
An average speed camera system along a 51.5-mile section of the A90 trunk road between Dundee and Stonehaven will go live in October, Transport Scotland has announced. The system contains 30 sites (15 cameras in either direction) with camera locations 5-7km apart. The system is costing... continue
Parkmobile Group has expanded its UK offices to support international growth of its... continue
German automotive components manufacturer Bosch has launched a system that helps hauliers locate, book and pay for secure truck... continue
The cost of using Leicester’s park & ride services will be reduced for commuters who buy season tickets, but other fares will be increased. People buying a 52-week ticket from September will see the cost of their ticket dropping from £420 to £320. Those opting for a... continue
The British government has said it wants to avoid creating a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after the UK leaves the European Union (EU) in March 2019. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that will share a land border with an EU member state post-Brexit.... continue
Over 80% of the people surveyed (81%) are open to the idea of... continue
Leeds-based airport parking price comparison service... continue
Online parking reservation provider ParkCloud has... continue
Horizon Parking has signed a deal with online payment platform Parkonomy.com to promote their parking opportunities in various destinations across the UK. Horizon Parking manages over 1,325 car parks for public and private sector clients in the leisure, residential, education, transport,... continue
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has retained NSL as its parking services provider. NSL has worked for the south-west London borough for over a decade. The new five-year contract has options to extend up to 10 years. It will see the contractor’s 50-strong team undertake civil parking... continue
English football fans heading to Premier League matches are paying average of £12 a game to park at stadiums, according to a report by vehicle data specialist INRIX. On average across the Premier League, official stadium parking costs £12 a game or approximately half (47%) the cost per... continue
Regulated rail fares will increase by 3.6% increase from January 2018, the highest rise for five years. Train operators can raise fares by as much as the Retail Prices Index (RPI) figure for July. The RPI for July was at its highest level since 2011, when it was 5%. In contrast, the more... continue
US computer chip manufacturer Intel has signalled its interest in the autonomous driving market by purchasing Israeli technology company Mobileye. Intel is reported to have paid $15.3bn for Mobileye, which manufactures cameras, sensors and software. Mobileye supplies technology to most major... continue
The next phase of the GATEway project in Greenwich will... continue
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