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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...

Brussels - The European Commission has today published data (LINK) showing that deaths on EU roads fell by just 2% last year, following a similar decrease in 2016 and a 1% increase in 2015.  According to ETSC analysis, the EU target of cutting deaths by half in the decade to 2020 is now very unlikely to be reached. The EU28 collectively reduced the...

A road surveying machine that has revolutionised the way governments and highway authorities around the world monitor the safety of their roads has celebrated its 50th anniversary by continuing to help save lives – and now it’s going Dutch! The SCRIM® road survey vehicle, which also recently successfully completed trials with the Federal Highways Authority in the...

WDM® will be showcasing their Structures Management System (SMS) module at the Annual Bridges Conference, on the 14th March at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Bridges UK remains the leading event for highway authority bridge engineers and their private sector partners, and continues to act as the definitive forum for all issues relating to bridge management and maintenance,...