Participants at the 2013 Polis Conference in Brussels, Belgium have called for greater coordination of European policies that affect urban and regional transport.
Around 350 mobility professionals from across Europe came to debate the continent’s urban and regional transport mobility during the annual event held under the title ‘Innovation in Transport for Sustainable Cities and Regions’.
"We need coordination between European environment, climate, research, energy and transport policies as these have a d
The upgrade to the UK’s busy A14 route will address a significant traffic bottleneck - Mike Woof writes
The UK is suffering badly from traffic congestion, a problem that is particularly severe in and around its major cities. Lack of investment in road construction over many years has resulted in a major backlog of work, while the country has seen growing vehicle numbers. To make matters worse, there have been few additions to the major road network since the late 1980s and early 1990s. And the combinatio
Felix Scheuter, managing director at Haenni Instruments, the renowned Switzerland-based mobile scales manufacturer, gives World Highways his views on how best to ensure effective highway weight enforcement
The main danger for any road is its gradual destruction by overloaded heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). The more frequently such vehicles use a highway, the faster it is destroyed.
Mobile patrol teams using mobile weighing scales are a highly effective way to enforce weight limits aimed at protecting ro
The trial was delivered on a 2.4km section of England’s A64 strategic highway, the eastbound carriageway at junction 44 near the town of Bramham in North Yorkshire county.
