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 ...

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 ...

The Department for Transport and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister commissioned WSP, TRL, Llewelyn Davies Yeang and Phil Jones Associates to develop the Manual for Streets (MfS), which ...

Work to evaluate the effectiveness of innovative geotechnical repair techniques for slopes has been commissioned by Highways England. The techniques are the planting of live willow poles, Fibre ...

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 ...

Road Note 42 gives guidance on the procedures for maximising the durability of asphalt pavements. Some of the concepts may not be practical in all circumstances, particularly for emergency repairs, ...

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 ...

TRL was commissioned to evaluate the Coventry Mobility Credits scheme on behalf of Transport for West Midlands. Participants of the scheme exchanged eligible polluting vehicles for £3,000 of Mobility ...

Detailed quantitative interviews were carried out with 650 people aged 16 or over, and a smaller number of key questions on cycling were included in an 'omnibus' survey with a nationally ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...