Highways Voices: Talking Roads and Transport Technology innovation

“Every single member I've met has been really positive and optimistic about the industry, really excited about ITS (UK) as an organisation and their role in it,” says new ITS (UK) CEO Max Sugarman on the Highways Voices podcast - his first major interview since taking over from long-serving Secretary General Jennie Martin last month. “What's been clear,” he adds, “is that we're at the cutting...

As 2023 draws to a close, the final Highways Voices of the year hears Highways News co-owners Adrian Tatum and Paul Hutton discuss some of the key topics covered on the site through the year. In this 25 minute chat they discuss industry funding, and how maintenance contracts seem to be a lot more focused on innovation and and working differently. Subscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Po...

As traffic monitoring and data analytics company Valerann announces it has deployed its Lanternn by Valerann product on the Costa Arauco motorway in Chile , this week’s Highways Voices podcast finds out how they did it. Subscribe to Highways Voices free on  Apple Podcasts,   Spotify ,   Amazon Music ,   Google Podcasts   or   Pocket Casts   and never miss an epis...

Even though the Chancellor’s budget, delivered just two weeks ago, indicated that budgets to maintain the local road network appear to have escaped further cuts, although as we sit in the middle of a three-year funding cycle-no further increase are expected for at least another two years. On this week’s Highways Voices podcast, we explore the subject of proactive highway maintenance and the need f...

This week's Highways Voices returns to the keynote session at Highways UK to discuss the important subject of decarbonising our roads. The discussion featured representatives of National Highways, Mott MacDonald, Arcadis and Costain, who discussed goals, commitment and how to change behaviour. The panel also discusses the move to electric vehicles and whether we can adequately decarbonise freight....

Given it's Road Safety Week, it's the right week to hear from four leading experts about their thoughts on how we can reduce the number of collisions on our roads. In this discussion, recorded in the keynote session of Highways UK, you'll hear from: Neil Greig, Policy & Research Director, Institute of Advanced Motorists Mike Wilson, Chief Highways Engineer, National Highways Suzy Charman, Exec...

We had so much material left over from the highly successful Highways UK event last week in Birmingham that we bring you some content we didn't have time to fit in on our podcasts from the show last week. These podcasts are brought to you thanks to the support of  Re-flow ,  Kier Highways ,  Causeway Technologies ,  Navtech Radar  and  SWARCO . You'll hear presenter s...

We can only scratch the surface of the huge Highways UK event on these podcasts, but we're bringing you a great flavour of what the estimated 8,000 industry professionals have experienced over two days at Birmingham's NEC. These podcasts are brought to you thanks to the support of  Re-flow ,  Kier Highways ,  Causeway Technologies ,  Navtech Radar  and  SWARCO . Today...

Thousands of our industry colleagues have gathered in Hall 1 of Birmingham's NEC for Day 1 of the huge Highways UK event, and we've been gathering a flavour of the event on Highways Voices. These podcasts are brought to you thanks to the support of  Re-flow ,  Kier Highways ,  Causeway Technologies ,  Navtech Radar  and  SWARCO . In today's podcast we hear some of Nat...

The huge Highways UK show is taking place at Birmingham's NEC on 2 and 3 November and Highways Voices brings you the build-up from inside the exhibit hall. These podcasts are brought to you thanks to the support of Re-flow , Kier Highways , Causeway Technologies , Navtech Radar and SWARCO . Join Paul Hutton and Adrian Tatum who talk to the organisers about a record number of exhibitors, start-ups,...

"It's a huge event - it's the biggest we've done in terms of floor space," explains Highways UK Senior Conference Producer Claudia Davidson on this week's Highways Voices, "The biggest event that we do, as organisers." In this podcast, we look forward to the event next week, where we'll be reporting for you bringing podcasts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Claudia discusses key speakers, topic...

“One thing I think that has been key to our success is actually delivering tangible value to customers with the solution that we provide,” explains One Network founder James Harris on this week’s Highways Voices podcast as he discusses how his company has cornered the roadworks information and management market in the UK, and is now expanding into the US. Subscribe to Highways Voices free on ...

“I think in general, the company's done done pretty well, and there's certainly been some significant successes,” says Harry Garnham of the Office and Rail and Road talking about National Highways performance on this week’s Highways Voices website. “But it's not to say there haven't been challenges, and there haven't been areas where we have concerns and think they can improve.” The ORR’s Head of...

Highways News brought you daily podcasts from the 2022 ITS World Congress in Los Angeles, and now here’s one final podcast featuring content we couldn’t fit into the daily programmes.  In today’s show, sponsored by   GEWI ,  SWARCO ,  Nota AI ,  one.network  and  Navtech Radar ,  you’ll hear an explanation of a revolutionary new way of maximising the value o...

The 2022 ITS World Congress comes to a close, and this Highways Voices brings you chat about some of the key issues to come out of the event.   All our podcasts for the World Congress are thanks to the generous support of our sponsors  GEWI ,  SWARCO ,  Nota AI ,  one.network  and  Navtech Radar , all of whom you can meet in LA. In today’s programme with Paul Hut...

On today's Highways Voices from the ITS World Congress in Los Angeles we talk spotting accidents at intersections, live roadworks updates and cutting edge traffic controller technology, plus bring you some breaking news about next year’s international ITS events. As next year's official ITS World Congress in China goes hybrid, we have news about how the world's ITS community can meet in Melbourne...

Day two of the ITS World Congress from here in Los Angeles hears talk of, among other things, low carbon transport, start up opportunities and radar technology as we hear from WSP, SWARCO and Navtech Radar. All our podcasts for the World Congress are thanks to the generous support of our sponsors  GEWI ,  SWARCO ,  Nota AI ,  one.network  and  Navtech Radar , all of w...

We look ahead to Monday at the ITS World Congress on today’s Highways Voices from Los Angeles. In the podcast we hear Professor Eric Sampson’s comments on the main topics being discussed in the sessions, including an international forum on sustainability and resiliency, with mobility network management, moving transit to zero emissions. And a number of special interest sessions that have caught hi...

This week's Highways Voices looks at the key way you can manage traffic in a town or a city - by discussing the latest in signals technology. Presenter Paul Hutton is at the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham, as he talks to Mark Crabtree of TRL, who's been in the industry for 47 years and has been coming to this event for 21 of them. He discusses what's changed in that time, how some of...

With fewer than two weeks to the start of the 2022 ITS World Congress, Highways Voices looks ahead to the World Congress by finding out about the key themes of the event, hears from exhibitors and gives you an idea of some things to do when you're in Los Angeles. Highways Voices will be reporting every day at the event with fresh podcasts for you that will be of interest if you're in LA or if you'...

The world's leaders in Intelligent Transport Systems will be heading to Los Angeles in two weeks' time for the ITS World Congress, and Highways News will, of course, be there to report with daily Highways Voices podcasts. There is always a danger that people who head to big events end up spending their time in airports and planes, then hotels and convention centres and they see little of the city...

This last Highways Voices before the August break features a look ahead to three major events we'll be covering this autumn. First, we chat to John Nightingale, organiser of the popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium about what's in the event, who are the key speakers, how it's the biggest ever exhibition and why the bar won't run dry. Then Prof Eric Sampson, Chief Rapporteur of the ITS World Congr...

"I have been talking about making the case for local roads for a number of years, so the fact that LCRIG sees that as at the heart of what it does is close to my heart," says Paula Claytonsmith, the LCRIG's new Director, Government and Strategy on this week's Highways Voices. She talks about the LCRIG - the Local Council Roads Innovation Group - mission to make the case for local roads, explaining...

“There's something like 46 action plans now, across the company, I'm really clear that what we can't do is have a big central team that is delivering on carbon, and everyone else carries on working as they did before,” explains National Highways’ Director of Environmental Sustainability Steve Elderkin on this week’s Highways Voices podcast. “Carbon needs to become part of everyone's role and every...

"We constantly monitor and we survey our members in terms of what they think they need in terms of training, and we look at the sector, find out where the sector is, is identifying training needs are required," explains Institute of Highway Engineers CEO Steve Spender on this week's Highways Voices as he discusses training and recruiting the next generation of industry professionals. "One of the t...