John Nightingale

Winner Most Thought Provoking Paper: This paper reflects a forward-thinking approach in tackling the complexities of MOVA implementation at roundabouts, including both single stream and Linked-MOVA configurations. By exploring intelligent strategies for managing overlapping entry greens, we demonstrate how adaptive thinking can lead to more responsive and efficient control, reducing…

There is a stronger need than ever before to drive costs down,  while still needing a sustainable future, for any equipment used on the highway,  we need to re- look at how we are setting requirements, and capacity for scalability,  and replacement equipment,  needs to meet a basic functional requirement.With…

 A practitioner’s guide for incorporating passive safety into traffic signal designs, including dispelling myths and misconceptions, and the problems still to be faced.

Pedestrian crossings at traffic signals normally cross a road from kerb to kerb, and are kept as short as possible for maximum efficiency. But what if the crossing needs to go from end to end through a shuttle-controlled area? This can lead to some long crossing distances – potentially up…

Winner Best Presentation: This paper details Network Performance Delivery’s involvement in the planning, assessment and opening of the Silvertown Tunnel in East London. It will cover elements of modelling assessment, design and signal operation.

Winner : Most Innovative Presentation: The key routes on Blackpool’s network see considerable shifts in traffic patterns in the summer months due to tourism. The traffic signal control strategy along these routes is semi adaptive Fixed Time Urban Traffic Control (UTC), which means the routes don’t operate as effectively as…

Traffic congestion and queues on urban road networks cause high delays for car drivers, buses, and also somepedestrians. Traffic congestion and queues also generate air pollution which affects all road travellers and alsosome non-travelling residents. Traffic control strategies seek to reduce at least some of these large negativeimpacts. However, selecting…

As towns and cities become more densely populated, the way we approach mobility must evolve to ensure a balanced efficient and sustainable transport network. With increasing demand on road space there is a need to rethink vehicle, cycle and pedestrian corridors and multimodal integration. At the same time, advancements in…

Designers of traffic signal junctions spend plenty of time examining the theoretical capacity, but as the importance of active modes of travel increase do we fully understand how many people a new facility might serve?  This paper examines the theoretical capacity of a crossing phase to see how many pedestrians…

In 2021, York became the first UK city to deploy real-time traffic modelling within its traffic management operations. The main benefit of this deployment was to fuse together live data from the city’s assets such as: timings from signals connected to UTC; and traffic flow detection from loops and cameras,…