Highway & Network Management

Mark Fisher, principal strategic consultant with Amey Consulting, explains how its data-led Smart Winter modelling improved a UK local government’s winter gritting efficiency by 18%

A new mineral reclamation process by Swedish recycling group Ragn-Sells could bring more environmentally-friendly-produced road salt to Scandinavia’s highways this coming winter.

US traffic deaths have hit a 16-year high in 2021.

Fibre-optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology from Fotech has proven itself in a UK roadside air quality project, winning an international award along the way.

Actibump lowers down into the road surface to create a speed bump only when speeding vehicles approach it.

TRL will integrate its pavement management system P-AMS, based upon iROADS, into England’s asset management progamme, replacing HAPMS.

Connected up cycling is becoming more important in France as the way to keep cyclists from giving up their COVID habit of pedalling to work and for pleasure. David Arminas reports.

A major Italian highway construction project is commencing.

More than 150,000 vehicles pass along the A7 in Hamburg, Germany, every day – increasing regularly. To ensure continued safety on the route, highway operator Die Autobahn launched an extensive renovation project on the A7. Traffic technology on the city highway will be optimised, digitised and connected in 18 construction phases.

The 8.5km expressway, in which Cowi was owners engineer for the client Metro Pacific Tollways, incorporates the longest and tallest bridge in the Philippines.