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The hidden pandemic – workplace health risks in highways

By Guest Blogger on Friday, March 26, 2021
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Covid-19 has thrown the issue of workplace health into the spotlight. But in the highways sector, which has a heady cocktail of exposure hazards from manual handling to bitumen fumes, the control of workplace health risks has long been the Cinderella to accident prevention. Steve Perkins explains why we must focus much more on the …

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Time to consider a new system of taxing motorists?

By Guest Blogger on Thursday, March 4, 2021
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Subsidising low emission vehicles is creating an increasingly large hole in HM Treasury’s coffers. And with the expected rapid transition to electric vehicles we’ll be talking serious money within a few years. RAC Foundation Director Steve Gooding asks whether now is the time to consider a new system of taxing motorists, but from a rather …

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Using AI to monitor the impact of Covid-19 on our Highways

By Guest Blogger on Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Author: Peter Mildon – COO and Co-Founder, Vivacity Labs Peter Mildon, COO and Co-Founder of Vivacity Labs, has been reviewing data from Vivacity’s national network of AI-based video road sensors to assess the impact of Covid-19 on our highways networks on a daily basis, and considers what the long-term impact of Covid-19 will be on …

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Building an electric vehicle charging grid for all

By Guest Blogger on Thursday, October 31, 2019

If everyone is to benefit from the coming EV revolution, city authorities urgently need to lead a collaborative effort to install the right number of charging points in the right places

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Creating a legacy of continuous improvement

By Guest Blogger on Thursday, October 31, 2019

Technical excellence and true collaboration lie at the core of the pavement efficiencies achieved across the different delivery programmes within Highways England’s Road Period 1

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A new source of road construction data

By Guest Blogger on Thursday, October 31, 2019

Pell Frischmann is working with the pioneering tech company Datumate which has developed market-leading drone and project cloud processing services that can measure progress and variance between as-designed and as-built for large linear infrastructure projects

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