Transportation Professional

Register your interest and be the first to hear when the course launches, receive course updates and pricing, and ensure your organisation is ready to meet the DfT's professional learning requirements. For 2026 to 2027, the government has confirmed a revised set of Incentive Fund requirements. These are the conditions all local authorities without exception must meet to access their full allocation of highways maintenance funding.

Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP (Lab, Holborn and St Pancras) has delivered his final speech as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party. Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP (Lab, Makerfield) has been elected Leader of the Labour Party by the party’s National Executive Committee and will be invited by His Majesty King Charles III to form a government.

The Transport Committee has launched a new call for evidence to examine the barriers that women and girls face when travelling and how transport networks, infrastructure, planning and operations can better support safe, accessible and inclusive journeys.

The XXVIII World Road Congress will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from 4 to 8 October 2027. PIARC has officially launched its Call for Papers covering 57 topics that will contribute to the Congress program. All practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and industry professionals from the road and transport sector are invited to submit abstracts in English, French or Spanish.

Overview The CIHT North East & Cumbria Emerging Professionals Group invites emerging professionals from across the region to join our Summer Hackathon, exploring the theme: 'Transport as an Enabler: Local Challenges, Regional Solutions, National Patterns' The hackathon will be an interactive session examining how transport can help address local challenges facing communities across the North East & Cumbria.

Overview This year’s event is a joint event with the Institution of Civil Engineers. It is an excellent opportunity to meet other Transportation and Civil Engineering Professionals in an informal environment. The golf format will be 18-hole Individual Stableford (off 95% course handicap) and played in threeballs with first tee time at 13:27 and every nine minutes thereafter reserved until & including 14:30 currently. If you want an early/late tee time and/or a buggy, please let Ric know.

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) has launched a new suite of practical guidance to help the UK’s local highway authorities strengthen their response to the growing threat of climate-related disruption on the local road network.

CIHT has launched a pioneering new professional development eLearning course that aims to address one of the most overlooked areas of transport planning: the safety and inclusion of horse riders as vulnerable road users. is the first eLearning course dedicated to equestrian road safety and has been developed to challenge long-standing gaps in transport policy, research and infrastructure design.

CIHT is inviting transport professionals and organisations from across the sector to share their experiences of managing extreme heat events. As part of the development of a new CIHT position statement on extreme heat, we are seeking real-world case studies that demonstrate how rising temperatures are affecting the safety, reliability and resilience of transport networks around the world. We welcome submissions from all countries and regions.

Fortunately, the Sunderland contingent had Peter Kennedy on hand. Bringing years of experience, supreme climbing ability and perhaps the greatest cycling vocabulary known to man, riders quickly became familiar with terms such as lumps and bumps, snots, false flats, bimbles and, of course, "get it in the big ring!" No sooner had the Sunderland group found their rhythm than disaster struck.