The increasing size and power of construction plant and its potential to dissipate intrusive or possibly damaging levels of vibration into the environment, coupled with increasing attention being ...

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 short white paper outlines the issues facing the asset management community with respect to the usage of condition monitoring data. In this paper Dr Alex Wright, Chief Technologist at TRL, ...

The aim of this project was to provide guidance to the DfT on certain aspects of technical regulations that may in future be applied to e-scooter if their use in public places is to be made legal.

Roads in non-built-up areas account for only 9% of all cyclist casualties, but almost one half (45%) of all cyclist deaths. The reasons for this imbalance are examined, paying particular attention to ...

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 ...

The Department for Transport's draft Accessibility Action Plan contained a commitment to commission research to review two sets of Departmental guidance, with the aim of understanding how they need to ...

The most effective forms of traffic calming measure usually involve some degree of vertical deflection. Road humps have proven to be highly effective at reducing vehicle speeds, but discomfort to ...

The Highways Agency (HA), Quarry Products Association (QPA) and Refined Bitumen Association (RBA) all appreciate the need to maximise the durability of asphalt pavements. Therefore, one of the tasks ...

The over-representation of young novice drivers in road collisions is a public health risk in Great Britain (GB), and worldwide. The key contributory factors to this problem are known and are ...

Everything is changing. The Global Centre for Digital Business Transformation states that the transport domain has experienced the largest jump in vulnerability to digital disruption of any sector.

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 ...