The acceleration of e-scooters should be limited to a maximum of 2 m/s2, in line with BS EN 17128:2020. Limiting acceleration of an e-scooter (along with speed and mass) is a more effective safety ...

TRL is partnering with University Hospital Southampton to reduce road deaths by linking health records and road traffic collision data for the first time. The partners have been awarded £500,000 in ...

The aim of this project was to provide guidance to the DfT on certain aspects of technical regulations that may in future be applied to e-scooter if their use in public places is to be made legal.

In transport, too, the power of the healthy choice is over-rated. For most of human history, for most people, the only way to get around was to walk. Evolution delivers the most efficient and ...

This report describes research carried out under the Linear Quarry Project. The aims were to promote the use of cold in-situ recycling by providing evidence of acceptable in service performance and to ...

Sadly what is true for individual humans is true for the things they try to do together: organisations can find it very difficult to change the way they operate, too. In fact whole sectors of our ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This report provides advice on suitable movement trigger limits to allow the Observational Method to be implemented for the design and construction of highway retaining structures. A contingency ...

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 ...