Network road pricing is inevitable to manage increasing congestion on city motorways and to facilitate more efficient transport networks, says 891 Transurban chief executive Scott Charlton.
Mott MacDonald has developed a Motorway to Motorway (M2M) metering pilot scheme. This has been developed for Highways England and is being trialled between junction 21A of the M6 and junction 10 of the M62. The project is intended to smooth traffic flows and reduce the number of queues that occur because of congestion.
Consultant Mott MacDonald will carry out transportation planning for the development a new highway transport plan for the city of Jos in Nigeria's Plateau State.
Anticipating new trends, the IRF organised a high level panel discussion on the promising and fast-growing market of carbon trading in the margins of the 2nd International Roads and Environment Conference hosted in Geneva, Switzerland on 10-11 November, 2008. Now is the time for the road builders to add trading to their armoury of carbon-reducing measures. Carbon trading has moved from the margins to centre stage. World economic growth may be stalling or going into reverse, but the search for post-Kyoto cl
It’s one minute to midnight for funding England’s roads, according to a timely new report, and the clock’s big hand is pointing to some form of user-pay solution, reports David Arminas
Is there any way out of future user-pay funding for England’s highway infrastructure?
The answer is a resounding ‘no’, according to the recently published report: Funding Roads for the Future. The brief 25-page document by the London-based Association for Consultancy and Engineering, ACE**, sums up the state of England’s ro
