{"id":113212,"date":"2020-09-20T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T22:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/smarter-transport-systems-with-graphene"},"modified":"2020-09-20T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T03:00:53","slug":"smarter-transport-systems-with-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/smarter-transport-systems-with-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Smarter transport systems with graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smarter-transport-systems-with-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><br \/> Imagine a road that always stays ice-free, interacts with vehicles to make their own electricity and has road markings that change according to live traffic. It sounds futuristic but a new partnership between The University of Manchester and Highways England is setting the wheels in motion to make this dream a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Highways England is responsible for the motorways and major A roads in the country, carrying four million journeys a day. All this traffic can take its toll. Adding graphene into road maintenance has the potential to extend a road\u2019s life, increase network performance to an industry-changing level and improve the road-user experience.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk\/about\/geic\/\">Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre<\/a> (GEIC) is plotting a route to a solution, collaborating with Highways England and Pavement Testing Services to tackle low-carbon and digital road networks, and deterioration of road surfaces in the UK, with the help of graphene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a road that always stays ice-free, interacts with vehicles to make their own electricity and has road markings that change according to live traffic. It sounds futuristic but a new partnership between The University of Manchester and Highways England is setting the wheels in motion to make this dream a reality. Highways England is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113224,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212\/revisions\/113224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}