Road Safety is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
Queue jumping is an ever present and increasing problem on the UKβs road network, whereby motorists wrongly utilise a traffic-free lane to cut in front of other road user...
The Swedish company Edeva that, among other things, manufactures and sells the active speed bump Actibump have made a number of international installations during the yea...
National Highways is reaching for the skies with a new digital infrastructure that will help keep roads moving and give drivers round-the-clock real-time traffic informat...
The UKβs top roads policing officer is urging every force in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to support a major national event next year designed to change...
Hardstaff Barriers is playing a major role in a two-year motorway bridge reconstruction project in Leeds which aims to improve safety and maintain traffic flow. The A64 (...
All Traffic Products, based in Willenhall in the West Midlands, is a start-up business supplying steel tubes, brackets and road signage fittings to large construction con...
Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank and Alain Godard, Chief Executive of the European Investment Fund, today visited Cyprus and joined Constantinos Pe...
A major bridge upgrade project on Scotlandβs busiest motorway has been completed ensuring maximum protection for all road users.Β New permanent concrete road safety barrie...
Construction can be a complex and challenging process no matter where the work site is. With so many stakeholders, building codes, and unpredictable factors involved, the...
Automated enforcement specialists Jenoptik Traffic Solutions UK have received Home Office Type Approval for a new Red Light enforcement system which uses a stand-alone ca...
A key portion of MITβs campus overlaps with Kendall Square, the bustling area in East Cambridge where students, residents, and tech employees scurry around in between cla...
The European Union Road Federation, together with its members active in the Road Restraint Systems business, have expressed their concerns over the recent dramatic increa...
Construction can be one of the most dangerous industries to work in, so ensuring safety is essential. While all worksites come with risks, some projects are more hazardou...
Whenever we drive a connected car, dozens of gigabytes of data are generated anonymously and collected by its numerous sensors and electronic components, such as traction...
Highways England, the UK government-run motorways operator, has been looking forward to updating the Highway Code in the upcoming weeks. The Highway code is a list of rul...
TRL is calling for further research into distracted driving to address fundamental flaws in existing legislation. This comes off the back of promising news that the Depar...
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted so many aspects of our lives, but one of its most surprising consequences has been an actual decrease in roadway safety in the US. T...
The onset of winter weather sees the return of gritting lorries on roads across the UK. In addition to clearing snow and ice, specialist operators The Gritting Company ar...
Infrared light sensors, high resolution images and a sophisticated algorithm. All this technology is used to find out exactly where people are looking. As we drive, the r...
The Swedish capital Stockholm and the suburb Sundbyberg have both recently inaugurated their very first fair speed bumps. The name of the system is Actibump but it is ref...
The European Investment Bank has agreed to support a β¬470 million nationwide programme to reduce death and injury caused by traffic accidents across Greece. βImproving ro...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is joining eight Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in an appeal to improveΒ road safetyΒ as road accidents c...
A newly-published systematic review and meta-analysis identifies the training activities that have been shown to be effective in improving safety among older drivers. The...
Greater Manchester Police has become the latest force to appoint the Road Safety Support Speed Test Laboratory to calibrate the speedometers of its pursuit vehicles. The...
In a virtual meeting, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and nine other multilateral development banks signed a high-level joint statement on road safety, under the auspi...
An even safer pedestrian experience is on offer thanks to enhancements made to an industry-leading on-crossing detector from AGD Systems. As part of a programme of contin...
Iteris, a global leader in smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded a four-year, task order based on-call professional services...
Almost 10,000 vehicles were caught tailgating in the first two weeks of new cameras being tested to clamp down on the offence. Highways England and police have joined for...
The World Bank and BRAC signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate to improve road safety in Bangladesh, and at an online event today, the Honorable Minister of...
New research has found that nearly half (49%) of urban design professionals believe that the recent rise of pedestrianisation in city and town centres is making public sp...
Drivers using the motorway network and other roads in Cheshire and Greater Manchester will benefit from safer journeys thanks to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (...
StreetLight Data, a leader in Big Data analytics for mobility, and Ford Mobility, Ford Motor Companyβs subsidiary dedicated to solving the worldβs most pressing mobility...
An inflatable safety barrier that can be put up in a matter of minutes is to help protect road workers on Highways Englandβs road network. The new airbagΒ is beingΒ trialle...
Headway, the brain injury association has relaunched its campaign to encourage people to wear cycle helmets after the government announced ambitious plans to boost cyclin...
In this article Dr Neale Kinnear, Head of Behavioural Science at TRL examines our acceptance of road deaths. “In the video above from Western Australiaβs (WA) Road...
A consortium led by Ford is developing an innovative predictive road safety tool which, using data from connected vehicles and intelligent roadside sensors, could help to...
A temporary steel barrier system from Highway Care has recently been deployed in a major highways project in Western Australia to ensure vehicle and worker safety during...
Most parents do not think their children understand road dangers or concentrate properly when near roads, a new survey reveals as pupils across the country prepare to set...
With new UN regulations on Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS) coming into force next year, leading automotive engineering consultancy HORIBA MIRA is welcoming the firs...
According to Carl-Magnus Norden, Founder of Volta Trucks: βSafety is at the heart of the Volta brand for one simple reason. In London, as an example, 23% of pedestrian fa...
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