SVD performance worsening, new data suggests14/03/2025 A third of the individual systems designed to detect stopped vehicles on smart motorways that were tested last year failed to meet National Highways’ minimum detection rate, new data shows. |
National Highways left with 'choice of one' on SVD procurement24/06/2024 National Highways has awarded a new £17m contract to the supplier of its stopped vehicle detection technology on smart motorways after admitting that the company’s intellectual property rights exclude any alternative bidder. |
Exclusive: A quarter of smart motorway schemes fall below safety benchmark16/04/2024 One in four stopped vehicle detection installations on smart motorways still failed to meet National Highways’ core performance requirements when re-tested last year. |
M56 smart motorway 'positive progress' kept under wraps29/06/2023 National Highways’ delayed all lane running smart motorway scheme on the M56 is now operating at the national speed limit but the government-owned company has not said what level of performance its stopped vehicle detection has delivered. |
National Highways exploring new CCTV stopped vehicle option27/04/2023 National Highways has a contract in place to ‘actively explore’ the use of video analytics to enhance its failing stopped vehicle detection technology on smart motorways, Highways has learned. |
M56 'smart motorway' makes it over the line29/03/2023 National Highways has opened a new stretch of 'smart motorway' on a scheme that edged into completion just before the Department for Transport put a temporary ban on the controversial road design. |
Two new sections of smart motorway open06/12/2022 National Highways has fully opened two new stretches of all lane running (ALR) smart motorway, including completion of a 32-mile section of the M4. |
National Highways drops smart motorway safety option22/11/2022 National Highways is not deploying video technology that could save lives on ‘smart motorways’ after it was told its CCTV systems are not up to scratch. |
ORR kicks live lane crash fears into long grass15/11/2022 The strategic roads monitor has ‘begun’ work to assess the effectiveness of radar-based stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology on smart motorways, a year after a recommendation from MPs that was agreed by ministers in January. |
M4 smart motorway moves to SVD testing08/07/2022 National Highways is lifting traffic management on the eastern section of its project to convert 32 miles of the M4 to all lane running and will now begin testing stopped vehicle detection technology on the stretch. |
National Highways clarifies SVD retrofit pledge26/05/2022 National Highways has insisted that it will have stopped vehicle detection up and running across its smart motorway network by its September target, despite recently suggesting that it would count schemes where the technology is still being calibrated. |
National Highways admits room for improvement on SVD16/05/2022 National Highways will look to upgrade its stopped vehicle detection technology on smart motorways after it recently failed to detect stationary vehicles before two serious crashes and already plans to upgrade one of the earliest installations of the technology. |
SVD testing further delays M27 upgrade19/04/2022 National Highways has asked drivers to ‘bear with us’ after a reduced speed limit remained on a smart motorway upgrade while safety technology is tested, two months after physical traffic management was removed. |
Smart motorway opening delayed for SVD21/09/2021 The second phase of National Highways’ £85m conversion of a stretch of the M56 to all lane running will get underway next month but the opening of the project will be delayed for the installation of stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology. |
Smart motorway scheme delayed for stopped vehicle detection tech21/07/2021 Highways England has further delayed the opening of an all lane running smart motorway scheme to install stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology on the M27, with the scheme now not due to open until next spring. |
Highways England 'considering findings' of CCTV stopped vehicle trial19/01/2021 Highways England has met a pledge in its Delivery Plan to carry out a large-scale trial of a CCTV-based alternative to its existing stopped vehicle detection system. |
Highways England could face corporate manslaughter charge over smart motorway death05/01/2021 Highways England could face a corporate manslaughter charge over the death of passenger from a broken down vehicle on a smart motorway. |
Highways England to launch £32m stopped vehicle detection procurement23/03/2020 Highways England plans to launch a £32m tender for stopped vehicle detection (SVD) systems this April, as part of its programme of safety improvements to smart motorways. |
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