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It is the time of year when we try to become a better person. Well, different, anyway. Even though January may be the very worst time to try to change there remains a huge appetite for anything that ...

In November 1999, traffic calming measures were implemented in the Surrey village of Charlwood. They were installed as an element of the Dorking Rural Box (DRB) scheme, part of Surrey County Council's ...

The use of cement bound material (CBM) roadbases in flexible composite pavements in the United Kingdom is limited by the reflective cracking that occurs due to thermal shrinkage. Inducing cracks ...

Reflecting on the past year, the impact of TRL’s mission is clear to see; it helps to take a different perspective in order to appreciate it. Let’s begin in space. The European Space Agency has funded ...

The aim of the RAIDS Phase 1 programme, commissioned by the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT), was to collect detailed evidence on the causes and consequences of road collisions in order to ...

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 ...

Currently, during automated vehicle trials there are two personnel present within each test vehicle: the Safety Driver and the Test Assistant. This summary report presents recommendations on how 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 ...

Vehicles equipped with advanced driver-assistance systems (ADASs) – for example, advanced emergency braking (AEB), lane keep assist (LKA) and blind-spot detection – rely on sensors or cameras that are ...

Author: M G Winter (Winter Associates Limited), M Duffy-Turner (Coffey Geotechnics Ltd) and I M Nettleton (Coffey Geotechnics Ltd) ...