motorways
RSS motorwaysOutsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News Four years ago the Highways Agency - which is responsible for maintaining the UK's motorways and some A-roads - relied on more than 100 contracts with external companies to deliver a wide range of its IT services. [24 Nov 2009]
Ditched pay-as-you-drive insurance set for revival?
News Using this data, drivers were then assessed on how much they used their car, times of day they chose to drive and the types of roads they travelled on - for instance, motorways are considered 10 times safer than local... [06 Oct 2008]
The high-tech road to happiness
News Queue-signalling signs are in place over 1,200km of the busiest motorways and the HA wants to extend their use to another 200km of the network. Technology will be at the heart of an overhaul of the UK's road network. [01 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting lost with GPS
Comment By merely selecting options for the route such as 'shortest', 'fastest' and 'make maximum use of motorways options' in random combinations, the navigation advice varied from sensible to lunatic. Written and dispatched... [02 Jan 2007]
Leader: Let's not rush into road charging
Leader These days the M25 - and many other motorways - are worse than the road to Hell. Chris Rea's song Road to Hell was famously inspired by his experiences on the M25. But in the fifteen or so years since he wrote it... [01 Dec 2006]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Rabbiting on about wi-fi
Comment It also promised base stations at intervals of two to five miles along motorways and trunk roads between major towns, and in main British Rail stations and Little Chef restaurants.silicon.com Financial Services [28 Nov 2006]
Overweight truckers stopped by tech checks
News Rogue drivers in overloaded trucks are doing huge damage to UK motorways - and now technology is leading the fightback. Now overloaded trucks are being pulled off the motorways faster through the use of... [25 Aug 2006]
Congestion-busting signs tested on motorway
News The congestion-busting sign system, which is being trialled by the Highways Agency, uses historical traffic data plus information from automatic number plate recognition cameras on the motorways to inform drivers of the... [01 Aug 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.07.06
Round-Up In fact, so sure was the Round-Up that this was the popular perception of the fleets of IT salesmen scooting up and down the fast lanes of the UK's motorways in their BMW 3 Series that it posted a poll on the site to... [21 Jul 2006]
Motorists to get jam-busting traffic info
News The Think Ahead, Move Ahead booklet outlines the various HA website, telephone and motorway information resources motorists can use to access real-time traffic information on England's 7,300km of motorways and trunk... [19 Jul 2006]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment It will not only prevent a significant number of accidents but will also help to prevent the concertina effect on motorways where cars break quickly but set off again slowly. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines investigates... [21 Jun 2006]
Police test road crash GPS scheme
News Ginny Clarke, the Highways Agency's chief highways engineer, said in a statement: "We hope that by using innovative new technology we will able to cut the time the police spend on vital investigations, get traffic moving again more... [03 Apr 2006]
Clever cars put the brakes on accidents
News The Awake project is developing a driver 'hypovigilance' system that wakes up drowsy drivers, and estimates its work can prevent up to 30 per cent of fatal crashes on motorways and nine per cent of all fatal crashes. [22 Feb 2006]
RFID-tagged driverless cars on roads by 2056
News That could spell the end of motorways jammed with heavy goods lorries, with ad-hoc wireless networks using adaptive networking technologies to co-ordinate "flocks of unmanned aerial vehicles for goods transport",... [26 Jan 2006]
Watch motorway traffic-jam clips on your mobile
News The trial starts with 100 cameras on the motorways including the M25, M1, M4 and M40 and will extend to the full Highways Agency CCTV network by the end of the year. Drivers will be able to download video footage from... [11 Jan 2006]
