Road surface friction on the Strategic Road Network (SRN) is managed through the requirement to provide skid resistance and texture depth. The requirements have been in place since the 1980s and were ...

The Transport Research Laboratory was commissioned by the Charging and Local Transport Division of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) to provide guidance to local ...

Author: TRL: Annabel Knightley, Alice Holcombe, Bharti Gupta, George Beard, Jack Hitchings, Joe Forrest. RiDC: Eric Harris, Hayley Dawson, Indigo Ayling, Naomi Care This report is a supplement to the ...

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 report describes a study for DETR Road Safety Division to suggest a set of accident-remedial intervention levels for use on rural roads (ie those with speed limits greater than or equal to 50 ...

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 ...

Sadly what is true for individual humans is true for the things they try to do together: organisations can find it very difficult to change the way they operate, too. In fact whole sectors of our ...

Research has shown that phone conversations while driving impair performance. It is difficult to quantify the risk of this impairment because the reference is usually made to normal driving without ...

This report reviews the information and advice available on the drainage of earthworks, identifies the limitations of current knowledge and provides recommendations on how these might be addressed.

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 ...

In the development of automated transport, there is a need to consider accessibility. History shows that accessibility of new technology and services often slips down the agenda in favour of rapid ...

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 ...