House of Lords Committee to publish report on autonomous vehicles
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee will publish its report Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: The future? next Wednesday (15 March). The report will look at potential applications for autonomous vehicles – including their role in the delivery sector – and also consider the extent to which the UK’s infrastructure will have to change.
Over the course of the inquiry, the Committee heard evidence from the Government Ministers, John Hayes, Minister of State, Department for Transport, and Nick Hurd, Minister of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The transport authorities Highways England and Transport for London (TfL) were also amongst the witnesses as well as leading CAV research programmes including the Greenwich GATEway project and the Venturer driverless car project.
In his budget statement yesterday (8 March), the UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond outlined a range of new plans for transport and infrastructure investments – which included £270m for new technologies such as robots and driverless vehicles.
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Post & Parcel Live: Solving The Inner City Challenge
The introduction of autonomous vehicles into the urban delivery environment will be one of the key talking points at an innovative new seminar that Triangle (the publisher of Post&Parcel) will be holding at the Hallam Conference Centre in London on 27 April.
Post & Parcel Live: Solving Inner City Challenge will look at how the industry is working to develop sustainable urban delivery models that are operationally efficient, commercially viable, and environmentally friendly.
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