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 ...

The off-highway sector encompasses a broad range of industries including mining, quarrying, agriculture, construction, and ports and airports. Automated vehicle technology has become commonplace ...

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 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 ...

This report describes the results of a project assessing mechanical retexturing techniques. It reports on work carried out by Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London (QMWC) and TRL ...

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 ...

Soil nailing is a useful, economic technique for the construction of new steep cuts or the strengthening of existing slopes. While the technique has much potential it has been adopted more slowly in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Electronic systems for disabled drivers include a number of safety critical systems, for example, joystick operation of steering, brakes and accelerator. It is essential that these systems are both ...