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Image Credit: Department for Transport/Oxford Mail The Government’s preferred option for the new Oxford to Cambridge road link has been announced. The new expressway, or dual carriageway, aims to provide a direct road link between Oxford and Cambridge via Milton Keynes, connecting what a report by Highways England calls “some of the UK’s most successful, […]
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Buildings, cars, more buildings and more cars, all fly past as I speed through downtown, in the scorching desert heat, on my way to MAD Gallery, Dubai. Never has the phrase ‘concrete jungle’ seemed more apt, than amidst this frenzy of all things glitzy and glamorous about extreme urbanization. Never have the glass monsters that […]
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The roundabout at the end of Magdalen Bridge has had the second-highest number of bicycle-related accidents in the country, according to recently released data. From 2009 to 2015, there were 45 reported accidents on the roundabout, second only to Lambeth Bridge roundabout in central London. The data was compiled by Mapmechanics from Department for Transport […]
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A new study by economic researchers at the University of Oxford has found that Uber on average increased employment for taxi drivers on wages and for those who were self-employed. The study was done through an analysis of labour data in the markets into which Uber had entered. Although it found that employment did not […]
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An Oxford resident walked away from Oxford Castle £750 better off this Tuesday thanks to a competition organised by the Go Ultra Low campaign, designed to raise awareness of the benefits of switching to an electric vehicle. Morgane de Salvage, 29, tracked down the money – the amount drivers typically save on fuel every year […]
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Oxford scientists have helped to launch the first driverless car in the United Kingdom yesterday (11 October) at a trial in Buckinghamshire. ‘Selenium’, which can seat two people, completed a 0.6-mile circuit on the pavements in central Milton Keynes. Developed by the Oxford Robotics Institute, part of the University of Oxford, the car uses LIDAR technology, […]
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With one hundred electric charging stations in residential streets the city of Oxford is set to make the use of electric cars a lot more practical. The council has successfully participated in a national funding pot of £40 million in total that is supposed to facilitate the spread of plug-in vehicles. Trials will begin at […]
Continue ReadingIn the last few years laws such as the EU Cars Regulation setting at 130 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre the maximum average emission per fleet by 2015, have pushed the automotive industry towards the route of enhanced safety and environmental sustainability. All the vehicles recently launched are equipped with several driver assistance technologies […]
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