We all know that traffic congestion pushes up fuel consumption. We see that every day on our trip computers. But how many of us knows just how much? You might be shocked to find out that, on average, congestion is responsible for a full 100% increase in fuel burnt per km. So that's double the fuel usage, twice the cost to the transport industry and double our greenhouse gas emissions.
Longer Heavier Vehicles
With transport professionals increasingly aware of the contradiction between Euro 6 and carbon emissions, IAA pointed the way to alternative shades of green. Brian Tinham reports
Telematics
The IRTE Skills Challenge is a brand new competition aimed at finding and rewarding excellence among bus and coach technicians in the UK. Transport Engineer brings you all the details of this groundbreaking scheme
Irtec
How road-friendly is road-friendly suspension today? John Kendall examines developments and thinking associated air suspension and what they might mean for operators and engineers
Suspensions
Much of the UK might be experiencing an Indian summer this week, but Dundee is preparing for the onslaught of winter, with the arrival of three DAF-based gritter-snowploughs.
An initiative to run buses on biofuel supplied by Convert2Green has been launched by Merseytravel and Stagecoach.
Alternative Fuels
Transit buses powered by BAE Systems' HybriDrive green propulsion have now surpassed the 200 million miles mark – across a fleet of more than 3,000 buses in North America and Europe.
Bus & Coach
Chelmsford-based MICOR Demolition has taken delivery of a fourth Volvo FM tipper, for operation with its waste clearance and recycling fleet.
Tippers
Kings-Lynn-based temperature controlled distribution firm 3 Distribution, which specified Carrier Transicold's Foretrack fleet management system earlier this year, says it is paying for itself, in terms of fuel reductions.
Telematics
First time test failure rates for HGVs and PSVs have fallen below 30% for the first time since VOSA began logging results in 1992, according to the agency's 2009/10 effectiveness report.
VOSA Testing
First is the UK's largest bus operator and carries 3 million passengers on its buses every day. We are global in scale and local in approach.
People
A high voltage alert device has been launched by Edbro to protect drivers and equipment from power line contact and other electrical hazards.
Security Equipment