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 ...

Proprietary thin surfacings are being offered by materials suppliers in the United Kingdom, including THINPAVE by Bardon Aggregates Limited (now known as Aggregate Industries Limited). Information on ...

There has been increasing interest in recent years in the design and construction of post-tensioned concrete bridges with external unbonded tendons. To assist in the design of these structures, the ...

A number of bus priority measures were introduced in Shepherd's Bush in 1993 by Hammersmith and Fulham Council as part of the London Bus Priority Initiative's South & West London Bus Priority ...

This study of single-carriageway trunk roads of modern design quantifies the relationships between the numbers of injury accidents that occur, and the traffic and road layout variables that determine ...

In England, Local Authorities provide network-level Road Condition Monitoring (RCM) data to the Department for Transport each year, so that the DfT can publish annual official statistics for road ...

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 ...

This research investigates the safety implications and practical methods of allowing contra-flow cycling in one-way streets in the UK. Five 'alternative' contra-flow cycle schemes (ie schemes not ...

RAC Foundation (2008) reported the results of a survey of 2,000+ users of Facebook, showing that 45% of UK drivers engage in texting whilst driving. The RAC Foundation commissioned TRL to study the ...

This report considers the use of materials susceptible to crushing during compaction. Such materials include unburnt and burnt colliery spoil, spent oil shale and weak sandstone. It gives ...

Detailed quantitative interviews were carried out with 650 people aged 16 or over, and a smaller number of key questions on cycling were included in an 'omnibus' survey with a nationally ...

Pedal misapplication is when a driver applies the wrong pedal of a vehicle, for example: accelerating instead of braking. When followed by the inability to regain control this can result in collisions ...