Nottinghamshire County Council

Tarmac has been awarded a major US$94 million (£60mn) highways contract from Nottinghamshire County Council (CC) in central England. The contract, which involves the delivery of a wide range of highways services including resurfacing, gulley cleaning, street lighting, road marking and earthworks will see Tarmac’s National Contracting division working in partnership with the local authority’s in-house highways team. The agreement, which will start on 1 April 2013 and run until 31 March 2018 with a five-year

Nottingham city in central England has upgraded its Urban Traffic Control (UTC) system to PC SCOOT, supplied and installed by Siemens, to further improve the management of the traffic network around the city. PC SCOOT will initially monitor over 450 junctions and all major routes within Nottingham, with the aim of reducing congestion and CO2 emissions and improving journey times.