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EU member states have given strong backing to a package of new minimum vehicle safety standards.  If this legislation is passed, it will prevent 25,000 people from dying over 16 years – a massive step forward for road safety. Contact us for more information Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director of the European Transport Safety Council said: “We strongly urge members of...

W.D.M. Limited have been awarded the Scottish Roads Maintenance Condition Survey (SRMCS) contract. SRMCS is a collaboration of all 32 Scottish councils, via the Society of Chief Officers in Scotland (SCOTS) and led by Perth and Kinross Council. The contract is for 4 years, with a possible 3-year extension, and involves surveying all classes of road at differing frequencies (approx. 20,000...

The highest annual number of road deaths since 2011 were recorded on Great Britain’s roads in 2017. After decades of trauma reduction, we have reached a plateau. In effect, a decade has been lost. 2,549 people have not returned to their families so far because we are not on track to halve our road deaths this decade. It is time to...

The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has launched a new social media campaign in support of future EU vehicle safety standards. In May this year the European Commission announced a significant proposal to upgrade mandatory vehicle safety standards for all new cars, vans, lorries and buses sold in the EU.  The combination of new standards and technologies could save 25,000...

Call for Proposals are Now open  The Safer Roads International Conference is a triennial event for roadway safety professionals and transportation officials from around the globe. The conference brings together industry leaders, government officials, corporate roadway department personnel, and others in the roadway safety infrastructure industry, with a focus on improving processes and communication to work more efficiently. For...

Central government and private industry, including W.D.M. Limited, have joined forces in a world-first investigation to assess braking distances on our unique chipseal roads. The NZ Transport Agency project, which was carried out by WSP Opus and supported by the New Zealand Police and Upper Hutt City Council, sought to identify whether bitumen tracking that occurs during...

East Lothian Council has been complimented on its new public information portal, which allows people living in the area to report faults and problems online. The fault reporting software has been developed and supported by W.D.M. Limited. Compliments from local residents: "I am very impressed with the new ELC online map system for reporting street lighting faults and...

WDM® will be showing delegates at the Road Safety Markings Association annual meeting in Derby how the retro-reflectivity of road markings can be measured across a full carriageway width in a single Scanner survey. A WDM® Scanner machine already simultaneously takes more than 40 different measurements of road condition, including cracking and potholes (surface irregularity index) Now a Scanner...