Despite the introduction into Europe of innovative personal mobility devices (PMDs) in recent years, there are no harmonised European regulations to govern their technical characteristics beyond the ...

Understanding the relationships between road surface properties and high speed friction is key to managing the risk of loss of vehicle control. It is understood that, in wet conditions, texture depth ...

There has been much debate in the literature and elsewhere regarding cycle helmets and their potential to prevent injury. This cycle helmet safety research report was commissioned to provide a ...

The Sinclair C5 has been designed to meet the new regulations which eased the legal operating requirements for electrically assisted pedal bicycles and tricycles. The present report discusses an ...

A number of bus priority measures were introduced in Shepherd's Bush in 1993 by Hammersmith and Fulham Council as part of the London Bus Priority Initiative's South & West London Bus Priority ...

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 report is intended to encourage the use of soil nailing where technical or economic benefits would result. Soil nails may be used for the construction of new walls or the strengthening of ...

Landslides cause potentially costly damage and disruption to Scottish road infrastructure. Debris-flows, a fast-moving torrent of solids mixed with water, are by far the most frequent cause of such ...

The results of a study to determine the economic impacts of landslide and flooding events that affect road networks are presented. The economic impacts of such events are divided into the direct ...

The report gives the findings of a study of accident risk based on a national stratified sample of 300 urban priority crossroads and staggered junctions on single carriageway roads (2917 personal ...

Much of the urban development in the UK is founded on heavily overconsolidated sedimentary clays, which are particularly susceptible to swelling and softening following the reduction in stress caused ...

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 ...