UK traffic levels rose...

UK traffic levels rose by 1.2 per cent for the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2005. Car traffic was unchanged, but light vans went up by eight per cent and heavier trucks by three per cent. M-way traffic rose by one per cent.

Dr Aurelio Gonzalez-Villasenor...

Dr Aurelio Gonzalez-Villasenor led a team of University of Manchester engineers to give the idea of vehicles travelling in high-speed close formation - or platooning - a nudge forward.