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Call for Proposals The Safer Roads International Conference is a triennial event for roadway safety professionals and transportation officials from around the globe. The conference brought 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 the first time in...

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 chip-seal 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...

Highways UK, the flagship event for the people and organisations involved in the planning, designing, building, operating and future-proofing of the UK's road network, returns to the NEC, Birmingham on 7/8 November 2018. WDM® will be exhibiting across both days on Stand J21, outside the Safer Highways Theatre, showcasing its latest Pavement Management System and the complete Highway Asset Management...

WDM® is exhibiting at this year’s Bridges Scotland Conference & Exhibition, which runs alongside Road Expo Scotland on 31st October and 1 November 2018. The conference sessions have been organised in partnership with Transport Scotland and SCOTS (the Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland) and will specifically focus on the Scottish bridge and transportation market. This specialist...

More than 50 local authority clients from across Scotland and the North of England will be taking part in a WDM® software training event at Stirling University on Tuesday, 30 October. The intention of this User Group is to showcase some of the new generic developments (affecting all modules) while focusing in on some of the developments specific to the different...

A slow improvement is being seen on Europe’s roads in terms of safety. In 2017, 25,250 people were killed in road crashes in the EU. This represents a 2% reduction from the road death rate for the EU in 2016. However there is concern that progress with road safety is too slow as the road death rate for the EU has fallen...