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Friday, 16 February 2018

BBC News

• Renault asks Carlos Ghosn to stay on as chief executiveThere had been some speculation the carmaker boss would relinquish his role as head of the French firm.

Financial Times

• Uber chief executive says group about more than car transportDara Khosrowshahi offers expanded vision by which company will be the Amazon of rides
• New TfL rules put further brake on Uber’s ambitionsPrivate-hire operators will be forced to limit the time their drivers work

Times Online

• £2,500 ‘fines’ for daytime roadworks to minimise disruption [Subscription]More roadworks will be done overnight under plans to charge utility companies and council contractors up to £2,500 a day to dig up streets at peak times.
• Driverless cars may take over if humans are drowsy [Subscription]The scene: a drizzly and dark M4 in the near future. A semi-autonomous truck is nearing its turn-off and the driver is alerted that he needs to take control.

Birmingham Post

• How council plan to ease traffic flow in £1.2m town centre scheme Improvements will be made to the Mellish Road roundabout in Walsall

East Anglian Daily Times

• ‘Get on with it and get off the highway’ - Suffolk highways insists single lane option for Woods Lane was not possibleHighways bosses have insisted their refusal to keep a single lane open during a long-running east Suffolk road closure was in the interests of safety and a speedy resolution.

Other Regional Press

• Plan to start charging Oxford businesses for their parking spaces is delayed PLANS to consult the public on workplace parking charges and other congestion-busting measures have been postponed until the autumn.
• Plan to start charging Oxford businesses for their parking spaces is delayed PLANS to consult the public on workplace parking charges and other congestion-busting measures have been postponed until the autumn.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• £30 million investment in revolutionary V2G technologies New technology which will unlock the potential for electric vehicles to help power people’s homes is being boosted by almost £30 million in government funding. Through the Industrial Strategy the government is committed to becoming a world leader in shaping the future of mobility and in the design and development of the clean technologies of the future. This investment will help deliver on that ambition, supporting vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies that could enable electric cars and other vehicles to deliver electricity back to the smart grid, to light homes and power businesse...