Thinking Highways Articles
Greenbriar Equity Group Invests in Spireon

Spireon, the vehicle intelligence company, has selected Greenbriar Equity Group, LP, a New York-based private investment firm, as its new equity partner. With over $3.5 billion in capital and investments...

BLOG: Making the Switch to a Brighter Future

This week Clearview Intelligence has been making industry headlines for its part in delivering the first dynamic delineation scheme at a major motorway junction on England’s strategic road network. Working...

BLOG: The When, Where, What and Why of the UK’s Road Safety Statistics

The Reported road casualties Great Britain, annual report: 2017 was released this time last week. In reviewing the report we are disappointed by the lack of progress being made on...

THE TH INTERVIEW: Heba Bevan, UtterBerry

  TINY SENSOR, HUGE FUTURE Kevin Borras meets Heba Bevan, founder and CEO of revolutionary low-power smart sensor system UtterBerry While doing my research for this article I read an...

INTELLIGENT PLANNING

SPATIAL AWARENESS Craig Hayes on driving ROI through the power of intelligent planning The world of transport infrastructure is becoming an increasingly complicated one. Not only are modern transport networks...

BLOG: Driving Innovation Across The Highways England Network

Highways England presentations at various recent transport industry events have repeatedly referred to the organisation’s three overarching imperatives: improving service to customers; making roads safer; and delivering the Road Investment...

Bigger Isn’t Always Better, says Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership

A new study by Ricardo for the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) aims to push the boundaries of knowledge of Life Cycle Assessment, an increasingly important area of research in...

Chaos in Megacities: Digital Licence Plates Prevent Traffic Jams and Smog

The United Nations has classified Tokyo, Delhi and Shanghai as the most heavily populated cities in the world. Economic growth in Asian regions is attracting lots of people from provinces...

BLOG: A Healthy Step Forward to Promoting Wellbeing

With the summer holidays in full swing, the events season has taken a break whilst organisations across the industry manage the influx of requests for time off and annual leave,...

BLOG: Road Safety Solutions Could Break Tragic Summer Trend

With good weather enticing people out of their homes, into their cars and onto their bicycles, most of us associate August as the heart of summer. It’s a chance to...

BLOG: Wireless Vehicle Detection – More Cost-Effective, Durable and Quicker to Install Than Inductive Loops

Efficient traffic light control systems are dependent on knowing where vehicles are and where traffic is building on the roads leading up to them. This intelligence relies on vehicle detection...

EVs: Could They Help Rescue Our Ailing Retail Sector?

by Ian Johnston, CEO of Engenie The National Grid has estimated that by 2030, there will be 9 million electric vehicles on UK roads. In 2017 alone, sales of alternatively...