as part of a study of aspects of normal road-building practice in tropical countries, the states of compaction achieved in road bases and earthworks were investigated at ten road construction schemes ...

Many of the concrete road surfacings in the UK have been in service for over 30 years and are starting to suffer from reductions in skid resistance and texture. This report explores the state of the ...

This report describes the road trials of High Modulus Base (HMB), a high stiffness roadbase macadam manufactured to the standard UK composition for dense bitumen macadam (DBM) using a binder with a ...

The aim of this project was to assist the Highways Agency in re-assessing current designs and specifications for continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) in the light of performance data from ...

The Interest group brought together experts and clients to engage in meaningful discussions about the future of collision investigation. It was a day filled with insightful presentations, ...

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 ...

Bus Stop Bypasses have been introduced over the past few years at sites on London’s Cycle Superhighways to enable the continuation of segregated routes through bus stops. A Bus Stop Bypass (BSB) ...

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 ...

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 ...

The increasing size and power of construction plant and its potential to dissipate intrusive or possibly damaging levels of vibration into the environment, coupled with increasing attention being ...

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 ...

This short white paper outlines the issues facing the asset management community with respect to the usage of condition monitoring data. In this paper Dr Alex Wright, Chief Technologist at TRL, ...