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 ...

Goods vehicles, large passenger vehicles and other large vehicles such as agricultural vehicles and mobile machinery make up a relatively small proportion of the vehicles on the roads in Great Britain ...

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 ...

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 ...

This guide provides engineers with methods of repairing road haunches by re-using road materials or industrial by-products. The guidance given is based on the in-service performance of re-usable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The automation of works activities and operations has become increasingly prevalent. To identify the potential benefits of automation of high risk road works processes and attempt to quantify benefits ...

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 ...

The High Risk Offencer (HRO) Scheme covers those drink-drive offenders who are felt to pose a particularly high risk to other road users or themselves because of the severity of the offence committed.

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 ...