{"id":83787,"date":"2017-08-29T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=87fe61982834413b500353d2031bfc2b"},"modified":"2017-08-29T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:15:55","slug":"news-story-green-light-for-lorry-platooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83787","title":{"rendered":"News story: Green light for lorry &#8216;platooning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Overseen by Highways England, TRL (the UK\u2019s Transport Research Laboratory) will carry out the trials, which will see how lorries can accelerate, brake and steer in sync through wireless technology.<\/p>\n<p>Jim O\u2019Sullivan, Highways England\u2019s Chief Executive, welcomed the announcement, and stressed that safety will be an integral part of the trials:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are pleased to be supporting the government\u2019s ambition for the UK to be a global leader for innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The trial has the potential to demonstrate how greater automation of vehicles \u2013 in this instance, HGVs \u2013 can deliver improvements in safety, better journeys for road users and reduction in vehicle emissions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Investing in this research shows we care about those using our roads, the economy and the environment, and safety will be integral as we take forward this work with TRL.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"general-enquiries\">General enquiries<\/h2>\n<p>Members of the public should contact the Highways England customer contact centre on 0300 123 5000.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"media-enquiries\">Media enquiries<\/h2>\n<p>Journalists should contact the Highways England press office on 0844 693 1448 and use the menu to speak to the most appropriate press officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s first HGV &#8216;platooning&#8217; trial, jointly funded by Highways England and the Department for Transport, has been given the green light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}