Highways and Transport

Speeding traffic driving along the M5 motorway at night.

The Highways sector is entering an exciting period, with the third road investment strategy (RIS3) period starting in 2025, an industry transitioning to zero carbon transport including electric vehicles, a key focus on the use of connected and autonomous plant for delivery and taking steps towards truly smart mobility.

Whatever your role in the Highways Sector, great connectivity is more important than ever before and is rapidly becoming as important as fuel has been traditionally.

New technologies rely on connectivity, so it has to be consistently reliable for systems to be effective.

In the last 10 years alone, some of the developments we have seen:

Greater reliance on multi-modal transport applications with the increase in infrastructure.
Dependence on real time journey information for all transport modes to provide the customer the best option.
Free Wi-Fi is an expectation on public transport and at transport hubs.
Contactless travel payments have become the new norm.
Vehicle corridors wirelessly connecting infrastructure to user vehicles to provide congestion or road closures warnings.
National Highways publishing the Connected and Autonomous Plant Roadmap to 2035.
Vehicles starting to become more autonomous.
The start of the roll out of significant EV charging infrastructure to facilitate the transition from fossil fuels.

At Onwave, we have an inherent knowledge of the Highways sector, with our Senior Management team having delivered major Highways infrastructure projects first hand.

We are also a Knowledge Partner for the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation in relation to connectivity and digital technology. We currently have connectivity solutions deployed across numerous major Highways projects and work for National Highways, Local Authority Highways Teams and the major Contractors and Consultants that work across the sector.

Whatever your organisation’s role in the Highways sector we can support your project delivery. We also work with organisations looking to use the latest connected and autonomous plant technology to provide enabling connectivity.

True Site-Wide Connectivity

By their very nature highways infrastructure projects are distributed over long narrow geographical areas with a need to connect people, plant, assets and vehicles both during the delivery phase and into operation and maintenance. Traditionally, connectivity for such projects has been delivered in an efficient manner, though modern 4G and 5G Private Network technology is here to change the way projects are delivered.

A Private Network will:

Enable the use of the latest technology including Connected and Autonomous Plant, AI Vision and make your Digital Twin usable for people and assets in the field.
Provide a common security standard across your project
Put your business systems in the fast lane by giving them priority
Enable a smooth transition from delivery into operation and maintenance without the need to install a separate permanent connectivity solution.
Delivery Safety, Efficiency and Environmental benefits at all project stages
Provide commercial benefit through economies of scale

A Private network may also include a public element to provide a positive community legacy and true Social Value for your project.

Connectivity on the Move

Many organisations in the Highways Sector employ a mobile workforce that regularly work in a new location each day and rely more on more on digital technology for their work. Onwave make certain your teams are Safe and efficient by ensuring they are connected at all times. We regularly provide in-vehicle solutions whether cellular or Starlink to supercharge the performance of mobile teams.

Rapid Deployment

Whether it’s a new project that you need to mobilise at the ‘drop of a hat’ or an asset or production facility that needs to get connected quickly, the need for a speedy response is a common theme in the Highways Sector. At Onwave, we specialise in rapid deployment systems and are typically able to deploy in 72 hours or less using our team of Network Engineers that are available nationwide.