Local bridge standards decline and full collapses increase24/03/2022 The number of substandard local road bridges across Great Britain has increased for the second year running to reach 3,211, according to a major survey. |
ADEPT/RAC Foundation: Council bridges decline as scour checks fall29/01/2021 The number of substandard road bridges managed by councils across Great Britain is increasing, new research shows. |
RAC Foundation helps code for safer roads07/01/2021 The RAC Foundation has published a self-help training manual for the use of the statistical programming language R for road safety analysis. |
Job’s a Gooding: Steve to be CILT president17/12/2020 Highways columnist Steve Gooding will be the president of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK for 2021. |
RAC Foundation appoints new chair06/05/2020 The RAC Foundation has announced that Neville Jackson – former chief technology and innovation officer at the consultancy Ricardo PLC - has taken over as its chair from Joe Greenwell CBE. |
Older drivers 'should be helped, not tested'27/01/2020 The RAC Foundation has called for older drivers to be offered higher levels of in-car technology rather any system of mass retesting. |
The sense of a road ending27/01/2020 Former director at the Department for Transport and current RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding discusses when and how we should hang up the keys. |
RAC Foundation making progress on collision investigation branch27/11/2018 The RAC Foundation is making progress on the Department for Transport sponsored Road Collision Investigation Project, with the police forces involved, and their allocations from the £480,000 government grant, due to be finalised in early 2019. |
Comment: 1,792 people deserve action18/06/2018 Former director of the Department for Transport and current director of the RAC Foundation, Steve Gooding, talks about life’s hardest lessons. |
Crash investigation teams to be trialled13/06/2018 The Government has announced a three-year trial under which dedicated investigation teams will be deployed to UK roads to analyse the cause of road collisions. |
Cutting ribbons on old roads23/03/2018 Steve Gooding, former director at the Department for Transport and current director of the RAC Foundation, argues that highway maintenance still does not get the support it deserves. |
More than 3,000 British road bridges substandard - RAC Foundation10/03/2017 More than 3,000 council-maintained road bridges in Great Britain are substandard, according to research by the RAC Foundation. |
Learner drivers to take lessons on motorways under new proposals03/01/2017 Transport Minister Andrew Jones has set out plans to allow learner drivers to have driving lessons on motorways before passing their test. |
£756m surplus from council parking13/12/2016 Westminster had the largest parking surplus in 2015/16 of £55.9 million with the amount of money left over from council parking operations during this period reaching a record high of £756m. |
Study shows pothole compensation claim made every 17 minutes13/10/2016 A study carried out by the RAC Foundation shows that drivers made at least 31,483 claims against councils for vehicle damage caused by poor road conditions in the last financial year. |
Over 4,000 miles of road have no mobile coverage02/12/2015 Almost 4,600 miles of British roads have no mobile phone coverage, according to research carried out by the RAC Foundation. |
Local road spending at lowest level for a decade24/11/2015 Capital spending on local roads in England is at its lowest level for well over a decade. |
RAC Foundation reveals pothole compensation claims29/09/2015 Drivers made a pothole compensation claim every 18 minutes during the last financial year, according to information released by the RAC Foundation. |
RAC calls for road safety targets21/09/2015 New casualty reduction targets need to be introduced if the recent increase in people being hurt on the roads is not to be repeated, according to the RAC Foundation. |
RAC and PACTS report shows varied road casualty rates26/05/2015 Progress made in cutting death and injury on roads across the UK has varied dramatically over the past five years, according to a report carried out by the RAC Foundation and the Parliamentary Advisory Committee for Transport Safety (PACTS). |
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