Podcasts about highways magazine

FOLLOW UP: GHOSN ESCAPE TEAM LOSE COURT APPEALThe father and son team who are accussed of helping Ghosn spring from bail in Japan, has lost their appeal to be extradited to Japan to face charges relating to Carlos Ghosn’s escape. To read more, click here for the Automotive News article. JAGUAR LAND ROVER ANNOUNCE NEW STRATEGYJLR has announced a ‘reimagining’ of their path forward. From 2025 they will be a fully electric focused company. Jaguar will ditch SUVs as they will be Land Rover’s sectors. The XJ, which is so deep into development, has been ditched. There are a lot of aspects to their plans, in order to read more, click the Motoring Research article here to get an overview. For some more in-depth analysis, click here for Professor David Bailey’s take on the news in Car Dealer Magazine. GOVERNMENT POTHOLE FUND DROPSThe Government announced it is injecting £500m into the pothole fund, to help local councils repair the shocking state of the roads. Whilst this is a lot, it is a reduction on last year’s overall fund. Councils are warning that they will not be able to tackle everything they need to as a result. To read more, click the Highways Magazine here. HIGHWAYS ENGLAND RECOMMENDED TO FACE CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTERFollowing a tragic incident and death on the M1 on a smart motorway section, a coroner has recommended that Highways England face charges of corporate manslaughter. To read more, click the Autocar story here. MERCEDES ECALL SYSTEM BUGIn the US, if there is a sufficient voltage drop to the eCall emergency call system and it is involved in an accident, the location will be given in Europe to the emergency services trying to locate the vehicle. Up to 1.3m vehicles are thought to be involved in the recall. To read more, click the BBC News story here. TWO EV ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE GOVERNMENTThe Government has opened a consultation regarding public charging points, seeking feedback on how to improve them. As Alan points out, we will do far more good by filling this out than bleating on Twitter, so to help click the link here to go straight to the page. Also, announced was that the Home and Workplace Charging Schemes have been extended. This gives financial assistance to those looking to install a charging point at home or work. One detail that was spotted by friend of the show, Daniel Puddicombe, was that the B&Bs had now been included buy workplaces should only be installing for use by employees. We will keep an eye out for any changes to the detail to see if customers can be serviced by these schemes too. To read more, click the FleetNews article here. _____________________________________________If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST——————————————————————————-FORMULA E: DS TECHEETAH COMMITS TO GEN3DS Techeetah has commited to being part of the Gen3 stage of Formula E’s existence. To see more, click their tweeted announcement here. FORMULA E: ADAM CARROLL NIO333 BACKUP DRIVERNIO333 has announced that Adam Carroll, former Jaguar driver, is the backup driver for the next season. To see more, click The Race tweet here. FORMULA E: NEW RULES APPLY IF YOU WANT TO LEAVEFormula E has revealed new rules, for the Gen3 stage, which will require teams to financially commit to the entire lifecycle of Gen3. If any team wishes to leave part way through, they will have to pay the outstanding amount of their annual fees, within 60 days of leaving. To read more, click the Jalopnik article here. WRC: HOW THE COLD WILL AFFECT AEROThink of this article as a supplemental Lunchtime Read as it is packed with really interesting detail on what the teams are going to have to overcome, from an aero perspective, during the Arctic Rally. To read more, click the WRC Wings article here. And thank you WRC Wings for existing, we applaud your nicheness! LUNCHTIME READ: BRITAIN’S PRESERVED AND CRUMBLING LOCAL PETROL STATIONSThis week we have a lovely read, which is extracts from a book by Richard Duisberg, showcasing the disappearing local petrol station. To take a trip around the country, click the Hagerty article here. LIST OF THE WEEK: TOP GEAR’S TOP 9 - WEIRD JAPANESE HOT HATCHESWe have linked to a fabulous Top Gear list of crazily named hot hatches, from Japan. To run through the options, click the link here. AND FINALLY: DRIVE AND LISTEN The And Finally this week is a particularly good one, we feel. By clicking the link here, you get the chance to travel around many cities from around the world and listen to their local radio stations whilst you do so. Hopefully this helps with the lack of travel you are currently experiencing, don’t forget to tell the chaps where you’ve been too. To lose several hours, click the link to Driver & Listen here.

Arizona Highways Magazine's Editor In Chief Robert Stieve and Arizona State Park's Communications Director Michelle Thompson define The Arizona Hour!  Discussing the best places and state parks nearby as part of our dedication to get you out and enjoy 'State 48'!  Road trips, ghost towns and the Best State Parks in the country!

Lance Laber, Executive Director of DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun in Tucson, discusses the new Ted DeGrazia exhibit that commemorates the famous Arizona artist's connection with editor Raymond Carlson and Arizona Highways magazine. More at: https://degrazia.org/

Arizona Highway's Editor In Chief Robert Stevie talks about a special edition of the magazine.  Photography collection of former Arizona Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.  An avid photographer with a passion of recording the history and beauty of Arizona.  Featuring some rare and never before seen pictures.

Editor of Arizona Highways Magazine Robert Stieve discusses two new books about The Grand Canyon National Park and 'Covering The Holidays', the December cover collection from 1938-2017.  Plus the current issue on ghost towns and some of the best hikes for fall.

Former Managing Editor Win Holden and Editor Kelly Kramer of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS Magazine discuss its beginnings nearly a century ago.  Its become one of the most popular state magazines in the country known for its incredible photography, stories and its influence on Arizona tourism around the world.  

In this special Talking Transport podcast, SMART Highways editor Paul Hutton is joined by his colleague Dom Browne, the editor of Highways Magazine, the deputy editor Chris Ames and Traffex Seeing is Believing's Content Director Adrian Tatum. The four journalists discuss some of the main points of the successful event at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire including the crash demonstrations, Highways England's innovation hub and the various exhibits showing off the best of how technology is driving change on the road network. We also discuss Mobility as a Service and the MaaS Scotland event and announce the Scottish Government's driverless vehicles event to be held alongside Road Expo Scotland at the end of October plus the ITS (UK) Annual Summit in November. You can get in touch about the Scottish event by emailing Adrian - a.tatum@hgluk.com - of Paul - p.hutton@hgluk.com and join our conversation on Twitter of LinkedIn. There will be one more Talking Transport before the summer break, with you on 18th July.

In this podcast from the Transport Network, sponsored by 3M Connected Roads, we set the scene for the ITS America Annual Meeting in Detroit talking to the Director of Michigan's Department for Transportation Kirk Steudle who discusses his support for ITS, the challenge of finding funds to innovative new projects and the Annual Meeting itself. We also look ahead to another event, this time in the UK, as we talk to Kier's Network Technology Director Paul Wilson to discuss Traffex Seeing is Believing taking place on the 27 and 28 June at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire. He also gives us his thoughts on the company's smart motorway delivery, CAVs and future investment. There's also a round-up of the latest news headlines on the Highways Magazine and SMART Highways websites.

Cold Comfort is the annual winter maintenance conference and exhibition, now in its 27th year. It's taking place at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. In the first of two programmes from the event, we hear about innovations in vehicle technology from Schmidt, talk to the Chair of NWSRG, Chris Cranston from Devon County Council, and also hear from the Project Manager - Severe Weather Plan at Highways England. There's also conversation with Bunce about their new products introduced into the market and Mercedes-Benz Unimog about how their vehicles were used this winter, and it wasn't how you might expect. This is the audio companion to the coverage on Highways Magazine's website, and (pardon the pun) weather you're at the event or not, it's well worth half an hour for a listen.

This is the first of the Transport Network's new regular podcasts from the home of Highways Magazine, SMART Highways, our websites and Traffex suite of events…. SMART Highways editor Paul Hutton is the your host of these programmes where we dig down into the issues surrounding the highways and transport technology industries by talking to the experts and decision makers in the field. In today's programme, we talk driverless cars today in the UK and the US and, talking of the US, we give you a sneak preview of the next SMART Highways big interviewee - the Governor of Michigan Rick Snyder - and look ahead to the next key event in the industry calendar, Cold Comfort. Plus we have a round-up of the latest news.

Robert Stieve of Arizona Highways Magazine drops by to talk about an upcomming issue featuring one of the magazine's most popular photographers.  And how they found the missing issue from December 1930.

This edition comes from the Seeing is Believing exhibition in the English county of Leicestershire. Seeing is Believing is a show which, among other things, introduces ITS to the UK road sector. In this edition Paul Hutton talks to Iain Borthwick from MTS/Rennicks, Clearview's Graham Muspratt and Tony Price of MVIS. He also hears about an exciting new initiative from Neil Levett of Highways magazine and Luis Hill from Thinking Highways. And Kevin Borras gets rained on.

In this edition Paul Hutton hears from some of the people we didn't have time to fit into our podcasts from the ITS World Congress in Vienna. Duncan Matheson from PA Consulting talks about connected vehicles and leading consultant Dr Josef Kaltwasser explains the importance of standardising the transmission of traveller information. We've also got Kevin Borras telling us more about the new North American edition of Thinking Highways plus a reaction to something he said in Vienna which riled some fellow exhibitors and if a trip to Vienna wasn't enough for you, then we hear from the man behind another exhibition, called 'Seeing Is Believing'.

Several years ago, Texas Highways magazine, the official travel magazine of Texas, began running an annual feature called "True Texas." The idea was to highlight specific places or activities that make Texas unique. Due out in the September 2012 issue, this year's True Texas feature has a different twist. For more, I spoke with Texas Highways magazine Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Charles Lohrmann. For more information on Texas Highways Magazine, including how to subscribe, log on to www.texashighways.com.