When TRL's Marketing Director Stephen Lynn started talking about the topic of this blog, he called it a ‘race’. The idea was fairly simple. Several TRL staff would travel to Highways UK, at the NEC in ...

In the run-up to Highways UK, the UK’s premier highways event at The NEC in Birmingham, four TRL team members, Shaun Helman, Jill Weekley, Ianto Guy, and George Beard, put the nation’s transport ...

this report reviews the various types of joints used in concrete pavements in great britain, and gives recommendations on their design, which is related to the method of pavement construction employed ...

Glare on the roads is undesirable, as it can make drivers less able to see the road ahead. TRL is working with the Department for Transport to understand the factors that can cause glare, and how to ...

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) commissioned TRL to undertake a programme of research into the use of non-prescribed zebra crossings at side roads. A prescribed zebra crossing has black and ...

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 climatic conditions in tropical and sub-tropical areas present particular challenges for pavement design purposes. Road Note 31 was first published in 1962 and revised in 1966, 1977 and 1993 to ...

As part of Bill Clinton’s successful bid to become US president in 1992, campaign strategist James Carville coined the phrase “The economy, stupid” as one of three messages on which the Clinton team ...

As the UK moves closer towards e-scooter and other micromobility devices legislation, the European Union faces a different challenge: inconsistent regulatory approaches across member states. A ...

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has issued the release of PAS 2161:2024 , an all new specification for the collection and reporting of road condition data. PAS 2161 marks a pivotal change in ...

Safety is at the heart of Transport for London’s bus operations. The Mayor of London has made clear that loss of life and serious injuries on London’s roads are neither acceptable nor inevitable and ...