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Companies need to act now if they are to be ready for a carbon-constrained future.
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Transportation

Traffic warden


Ensuring traffic flows smoothly on the UK’s motorways and major trunk roads is all in a days’ work for UK Highways Agency chief Archie Robertson. But as an expanding economy continues to place ever-greater demands on the transportation infrastructure, safeguarding the reliability of the network becomes increasingly challenging. Senior Editor Ben Thompson met the UK’s traffic tsar to find out what lies on the road ahead.

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Rising to the challenge


UK-based Asset International Structured Solutions is rising to the challenge of making way for a new four-lane highway without compromising mainline railway access. As the steel rail tunnel was lifted into place, it also secured the project the accolade of the world’s largest lift.

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Communicating success


Firstco’s Mark Calnan looks at the importance of integrating station control and communications systems.

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Influencing travel behaviour: more homework needed


The private car has shaped our society in ways that seemed unimaginable 50 years ago, creating dependencies that transport planners have been struggling to break. The visible indicator of the problems we face is apparent in the congestion that occurs

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The railway interoperability challenge


Interoperability was introduced in 1996 to assist in opening up the railway market and making the railways more competitive. Now, 11 years and many discussions later, the question is: how far have we come? Is interoperability being achieved? And is t

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