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The 8th UN Global Road Safety Week reminds us that safe streets are not a luxury—they are a necessity. Walking and cycling should not come with a death toll. To build safer streets, we must invest in ...
The Well Managed Highway Infrastructure (WMHI) Code of Practice, last published in 2016, is a cornerstone document guiding local highway authorities in the effective, risk-based management of their ...
Renewable energy technologies are likely to become more important as other energy sources become depleted and the cost of power generation using fossil fuels rises. Renewable sources of energy have ...
this report describes an investigation of chalk as a freshly placed fill material and the development of a new classification for chalk in relation to the stability of the material during construction ...
The asphalt Pavement Embodied Carbon Tool (asPECT) is a carbon footprinting tool for asphalt road pavements. It was first developed in 2009 as part of a programme of work funded by the collaborative ...
This study aimed to assess the impact of interacting with two infotainment systems, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, on four driver performance measures: reaction time, driving behaviour, eyes-off road ...
The Department for Transport and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister commissioned WSP, TRL, Llewelyn Davies Yeang and Phil Jones Associates to develop the Manual for Streets (MfS), which ...
The National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) comprises behaviour change courses offered to road traffic offenders instead of prosecution. This report presents an evaluation of the majority ...
As well as assisting with policy, and planning for road casualty reduction on local roads, TRL has a range of technical support services to deliver efficiencies when police are required to report on ...
Problems have been experienced on recent highway schemes with corrosion of galvanised steel buried structures (CSBS) due to chemical reaction from structural backfill. The corrosion has been ...
A series of test protocols are proposed which define a laboratory test programme to assess the performance of high-friction surface systems. The programme involves three simulative tests (for scuffing ...