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.

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 ...

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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 ...

Author: TRL: Annabel Knightley, Alice Holcombe, Bharti Gupta, George Beard, Jack Hitchings, Joe Forrest. RiDC: Eric Harris, Hayley Dawson, Indigo Ayling, Naomi Care This report is a supplement to the ...

In the development of automated transport, there is a need to consider accessibility. History shows that accessibility of new technology and services often slips down the agenda in favour of rapid ...

this report describes an investigation of chalk as a freshly placed fill material and the development of a new classification for chalk in relation to the stability of the material during construction ...

The National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) comprises behaviour change courses offered to road traffic offenders instead of prosecution. This report presents an evaluation of the majority ...

This study aimed to assess the impact of interacting with two infotainment systems, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, on four driver performance measures: reaction time, driving behaviour, eyes-off road ...

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 ...