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 ...

A suite of services to support researchers and product developers seeking evidence and insights from real world road traffic collision data. There are multiple sources of information about road ...

In the UK, Advanced Stop Lines (ASLs) are an area in front of the main traffic stop line at signal-controlled junctions that can currently only be used by cyclists. This area provides cyclists with ...

The accident rate of novice drivers decreases markedly during their early driving careers. Graduated licensing systems aim to improve novice driver safety by providing a staged progression from ...

National Highways manages skid resistance on their network by carrying out single annual skid resistance surveys. This data is used to identify sites where there is a need for an investigation to ...

The work reported in this document serves to update the knowledge and specifications for concrete roads on the English Strategic Road Network (SRN). There are discrepancies in the Specification for ...

The Bus Safety Standard (BSS) is focussed on vehicle design and safety system performance and their contribution to the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy. This sets a target to achieve zero road ...

In recent years a new source of data has become available that is referred to as “crowdsourced data”. This can be provided by vehicles or mobile phones, on a network-wide basis, from multiple sources.

National Highways manages levels of skid resistance on strategic road network by carrying out single annual skid resistance surveys. These are carried out over the summer and are split over three ...