Roads
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Highways England names Jim O’Sullivan as new chief executive
Former Heathrow airports managing director and one time Concorde chief engineer takes over charge of the nation’s strategic road network from Graham Dalton. -
Embracing automated and connected vehicles
Why do we need self driving cars and connected vehicles? Atkins intelligent transport systems technical leader Jill Hayden explains. -
Stick with roads investment plan to generate jobs, says CIHT head
Highways England's budget is rumoured by the FT to be a target of cuts. But commitment to the current £15bn plan is the best way for Government to get the investment in skills it wants to develop the economy, says Sue Percy. -
Driver research shows Highways England’s first job is to explain itself
Other drivers are awful, the M25 has mythical status and no one knows who runs the roads, Transport Focus research with motorists finds. -
Highways England unveils detailed Delivery Plan for £11bn of roads spending - updated
"We are modernising the motorway network" says chief executive Graham Dalton as Highways England takes its first bow. -
Roads industry can cope with ambitions of Highways England but at a push
Launch of Highways England lays down a distinct challenge to the roads construction sector, says Jim Christie of key supplier Nynas. -
Emergency pothole funding “inefficient and short term” says latest ALARM survey
Potholes have increased by 33% and emergency repair money essentially “wasted”. -
Highways England – “the end of the beginning” - DfT's Dowie
DfT director John Dowie explains the challenges for the new company and the supply chain. -
10,000 more people needed to create the highways revolution, says roads minister
Industry facing greatest change for 50 years according to John Hayes ahead of Highways England launch next week. And future contracts will demand a training commitment. -
Northern road is a BIM trailblazer
The team on the nationally significant A556 have used a lot of ingenuity to successfully employ BIM on the 7.5km Greenfield road scheme.