Active travel and transport - post pandemic futures - Professor Rachel Aldred
Whilst we are in the midst of a global pandemic, today we explore measures for how – potentially – me might help address another one. Inactivity has been described as a pandemic due to the health imp...
16 Juli 202032min
Humanising Autonomy - Paddy La Torre
This podcast explores the work of a start-up predictive AI company that improves the way vehicles and systems interact with people in any environment. Humanising Autonomy’s horizontal solution fuses b...
10 Juli 202021min
Improving Local Highways - Ginny Clarke CBE, Andrew Hugill, Matthew Lugg OBE, Steve Gooding CB, Mike O'Dowd Jones
This podcast explores the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) review of the local highway network (LHN) in England. This review was undertaken in a similar time frame to theJuly...
3 Juli 202027min
Achieving net zero - Maggie Hall
The UK passed a net zero emissions law - this target requires the UK to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. How will the highways and transport sector deliver on this target? How...
18 Juni 202016min
Electric vehicles - the story of cobalt from the Congo - Christophe Le Bec
As the world moves to electric vehicles this episode explores the supply of one of the key metals, cobalt and the mining industry.The interview is with Christophe Le Bec - an economic journalist with ...
17 Juni 202013min
The science of our cities - Laurence Oakes-Ash
Big Data is all around us - but what use is it if our roads are still congested, our cities crowded, our air polluting. How can we make meaningful change using insights from data? This podcast focus...
16 Juni 202021min
Reducing accident rates on our highways - the Kier story
How to reduce accident rates for the workforce that keeps our transport network operating? This episode looks at how Highways England's, Commercial Director, Malcom Dare set the supply chain the cha...
12 Juni 202027min
The construction challenge – Covid-19, Brexit and Climate Change – Tim Mole
This episode focuses on the issues associated with the building blocks of our infrastructure: the raw materials that are used for constructing and maintaining our highways.And, it is fair to say, the ...
11 Juni 202020min
