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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) have notified that two-lane roads in France have had their default speed limit reduced 90 to 80 km/h since 1 July. Here's what they reported:  "The change applies on 40% of the French road network; some 400,000 km of roads are affected by the lower limit. The government says that 350-400 deaths a year could be...

Transport Network have created a report with the new inquiry into the funding and governance of roads across England. Here's some of the key points reported by the Transport Network: "Local roads make up around 98% of the total road network length and carry two-thirds of motor traffic, however they receive much less cash than the strategic network per mile...

This is how many people die on EU roads every week: Brussels – A new report by the European Transport Safety Council shows that road safety progress in the European Union has stagnated for the last four years. The organisation says governments need strong political will, urgent measures and substantial investments in safe infrastructure to reduce the 500 deaths that occur...

The European Commission has set a new EU target to halve road deaths, and for the first time, serious injuries, in the decade to 2030.  Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director of European Transport Safety Council, said: “Road traffic injury is still the number one killer of young people across the continent so these essential measures cannot come soon enough.”...

The Road Surface Treatment Association (RSTA)  held their second free training event ‘Reducing Skid Related Accidents using High Friction surfacing: Fact of Friction’ in Leicester on 16 May 2018. Mark Stephenson, head of Consultancy at W.D.M. Limited will be presenting cases studies that illustrate the performance of HFS surfaces as measured by SCRIM – the gold standard...

W.D.M. Limited is attending and exhibiting at the Society of Cheif Officers of Transportation (SCOTS) annual general meeting and seminar, which takes place at Athol Palace Hotel in Pitlochry on the 3 and 4 May. The Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland (SCOTS) is a strategic body comprising of transportation professionals from all the 32 councils and the seven...

The WDM® texture meter, the TM2, took part in Network Level Macrotexture Measurement Equipment trials in the USA. The ‘rodeo’ style trials were held at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in Blacksburg. The various machines were first tested against accurate material targets with different profiles and then over several routes on the Institute’s test road,...

A BBC article has reported that 10% of the road maintenance network created by local authorities in Great Britain is in poor condition, or has been flagged for further inspection. About 37,000 kilometres (22,990 miles) across England, Wales and Scotland fell below top standard in road surveying carried out on behalf of the Department for Transport. The RAC said the road maintenance network...