Highways Voices: Talking Roads and Transport Technology innovation

The UK’s biggest highways and transport show of the year takes place next week at the NEC in Birmingham, and Highways Voices is your must-listen place to find out more about it. These programmes are brought to you thanks to the support of AGD and Traffic Group Signals , Q Point , SRL , Westcotec and SWARCO . In this programme you’ll hear from organiser Claudia Davidson about, among other things, t...

What are the advantages of digitising your asset management? What impact can a digitised system have on councils and their communities? These were the topics on discussion on this week’s Highways News podcast in association with Brightly. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Amazon Music , Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode! The company’s cam...

Our final Highways Voices featuring content gathered during the ITS World Congress in Dubai is a panel discussion looking at technical collaboration in transport between the UK and Europe. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Amazon Music , Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode! Recorded in front of an audience on the UK Pavilion at the heart of...

In the third of our special podcasts from the 30th ITS World Congress in Dubai, we find out how British companies can get help to build new business in the UAE, and we hear more about the World Congress in three years' time in Birmingham. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Amazon Music , Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode! We hear from the...

This week, the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has launched Pothole Prevention Week as part of its on-going commitment to highlight the benefits of surface treatments that prevent potholes from forming in the first place. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Amazon Music , Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts  and never miss an episode! Joining us on Hig...

The UK Pavilion at the ITS World Congress in Dubai features a number of innovative British SMEs, and on this special podcast we meet them all. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Amazon Music , Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode! Highways Voices host Paul Hutton has a "pitwalk" style chat with participants on the stand, which is delivered by...

Join Highways Voices on the UK Pavilion at the 30th Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in Dubai today for a quick tour around some of the big talking points at the global event. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts,   Spotify ,   Amazon Music ,   Google Podcasts   or   Pocket Casts   and never miss an episode! As 24,000 people are expec...

Highways Voices returns after its summer break with an interview recorded at the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham. Andrew Caleya Chetty is our guest, CEO and Founder of Starling Technologies, talking about its innovative approach to pedestrian safety using computer vision and machine learning. He explains how Starling's system, which can handle saturated pavements and different user typ...

As Highways Voices reaches its summer break, we finish this series of podcasts with a look ahead to two of the key events for our industry in the autumn. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts,   Spotify ,   Amazon Music ,   Google Podcasts   or   Pocket Casts   and never miss an episode! Organiser of the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium John Nighting...

This week on Highways Voices we talk about better traffic management using a new pre-emptive traffic management system being pioneered by AECOM and Derbyshire County Council. Lee Street, Head of Technology Services, AECOM Transportation, Europe, and Neill Bennett, Assistant Director Highways Commissioning at Derbyshire County Council join us to discuss the system that can seamlessly integrate vari...

In the second of our tours of this month's LCRIG Innovation and Learning Festival in Coventry, we hear from seven more guests about everything from autonomous pothole repair to road marking You'll hear from a leading local authority, a company that’s booked millions through its participation with LCRIG, about off grid roadside solutions and from one of the leading trade bodies. S ubscribe to Highw...

Join Highways Voices on a whistle-stop tour of last week's LCRIG Innovation and Learning Festival in Coventry, as we hear expertise across the road maintenance, safety, EV and mobility industries. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts,   Spotify ,   Amazon Music ,   Google Podcasts   or   Pocket Casts   and never miss an episode! In the first of t...

This week on Highways Voices we talk about driverless car technology, regulation, and industry developments. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts,   Spotify ,   Amazon Music ,   Google Podcasts   or   Pocket Casts   and never miss an episode! Guest Dr Henriette Cornet has recently joined the University of San Francisco after previously working on...

This week on Highways Voices we hear about new features being added to LCRIG's Innovation and Learning Festival, which takes place next month (2 and 3 July). S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts,   Spotify ,   Amazon Music ,   Google Podcasts   or   Pocket Casts   and never miss an episode! The event sees local authorities find out about new inno...

This week, Highways Voices hears ideas on how to overcome challenges in staying close to customers, adapting to their needs, and future-proofing a company portfolio. Our guest is the CEO of SWARCO, Michael Schuch who discusses the the problems facing the industry because of differing regulation around the world, especially when it comes to adherence to patents and to carbon limits. S ubscribe to H...

Effective management of highway assets is on the agenda this week on Highways Voices. We speak with Brightly, one of the UK’s leading providers of asset management software in the highways sector. Local authorities and contractors have been using the company’s asset management solution for over 20 years now, helping them make the correct decisions around prioritising and scheduling highway wo...

“If I speak locally, in Sussex, we have a high number of cars, of sports cars, and bikers who come to visit the coast in the weekends, for example, and there’s little doubt that the communities through which they drive really do support average speed cameras and other safety cameras to assist them to reduce both the noise and also the speed of that traffic," says Sussex Police Chief Constable Jo S...

"Don't try and talk to the politicians - the truth is actually having good relations with... politicians will have very little impact on the actual decisions government takes," explains former Transport Secretary Chris Grayling on this week's Highways Voices. He joined an ITS UK meeting last week and was interviewed by Highways Voices host Paul Hutton, who recorded the chat for you to feature on t...

"A lot of our time is firefighting, fixing day to day problems, maybe some signal timings, but it's hard to look into the future when we don't have time," admits City of York Council's Sean Bulmer in a panel discussion at the SWARCO User Group meeting in Coventry, featured on this week's Highways Voices. Mr Bulmer was joined by Emily Madsen from Staffordshire County Council who admits she struggle...

Despite bringing you daily podcasts last week thanks to our sponsors SWARCO and AGD Systems , we still couldn’t fit in everything we gathered, so in this bonus podcast we talk about road safety, companies coming together and artificial intelligence. S ubscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts,   Spotify ,   Amazon Music ,   Google Podcasts   or   Pocket Cast...

The last of this week’s Highways Voices podcasts from Intertraffic Amsterdam 2024 explores more of the cutting-edge technology and leading opinion, thanks to the sponsorship of   SWARCO and AGD Systems . In today’s programme we hear about the Australian invention Multipatcher, a safe one-person operated way to fix our roads, which has been making a difference Down Under for decades and is now...

As we enter the second half of Intertraffic Amsterdam 2024, we’re back with more fascinating conversation about the transport and mobility industries from Amsterdam, thanks to the sponsorship of   SWARCO and AGD Systems . In today’s programme we hear about an important collaboration between former competitors SWARCO and Dutch data experts Monotch, who have announced a new initiative to expand...

On the second of our Highways Voices podcasts from Intertraffic Amsterdam , we’ll hear from the winners of the Intertraffic Awards, with Valerann, Intelligent Instruments and Sealed Air telling us about their winning solutions. AGD Systems explain the relative values of video analytics and radar to monitor transport, while we chat to the CEO of their fellow sponsors SWARCO about how people are key...

Intertraffic Amsterdam is firmly rooted in the calendar as the huge smart mobility, infrastructure, traffic management, road safety and parking exhibition and summit.  So we’re here for the whole week, joining more that 30 thousand traffic technology and mobility professionals to learn and connect. You can join in whether you’re in the venue or listening from home or work, as we give you...

This week’s Highways Voices looks ahead to the biggest single event we cover at Highways News - Intertraffic Amsterdam . Ahead of four special podcasts direct from the RAI in Amsterdam thanks to the support of SWARCO and AGD Systems , we find out what we can expect, as we hear from the organiser Carola Jansen-Young and long-term friend of Highways Voices, Richard Neumann of SWARCO. S ubscribe to H...