20 services found
Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) Services
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Improving Safety
TRL has an enviable reputation throughout the world for its contribution to the excellent safety record of British roads and to vehicle safety standards worldwide.
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Vehicle Safety Service
Our expert research covers how vehicles react during an impact with other vehicles or objects at varying speeds, conditions and locations including frontal, side, pole and rear ...
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Sustainability
Creating a Sustainable Future: TRL is committed to creating a sustainable future and helping our clients address the challenges of sustainable development and climate change. We provide specialist knowledge and expertise to connect the key issues of environment, economy and transport.
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Sustainable Cities Service
Sustainable development is of key importance in the urban environment. Urban planning must address the housing, employment, health, education and transportation needs of inhabitants, whilst ensuring access to services such as shopping and leisure facilities and providing for waste management. TRL is helping its clients in the drive to develop sustainable cities through sustainable urban planning and ...
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Journey Time Reliability
TRL has monitored and analysed the performance of the M25 Controlled Motorway since August 1995 and has developed deep expert knowledge both of the behaviour of the Controlled Motorway system and of the traffic flows it manages. Subsequently, the Highways Agency has decided to bring TRL’s expertise to bear directly on the daily operational management of the network, with the focus on reducing congestion and improving journey time reliability.
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Tackling Congestion Service
TRL has been researching congestion problems for over 30 years and has seen many solutions implemented, such as Controlled Motorways, ramp metering, driver information and junction re-design. Without these solutions, congestion would be significantly worse than it is now. However, continuing traffic growth means congestion continues to increase and new innovation is ...
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Managing Infrastructure
UK infrastructure consists of 350,000 km of roads, over 100,000 bridges and tunnels and more than 200 surfaced runways. TRL undertakes applied research and consultancy into all aspects of infrastructure including design, maintenance and assessment of pavements and structures, whole-life costing, environmental impacts and management for road and airfield pavements.
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Sustainable Construction
The construction industry is subject to various legislative duties connected with waste and natural resource management. For many years TRL has been working with the construction industry and its suppliers to maximise resource efficiency and improve waste ...
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Intelligent Transport
The transport sector in the UK faces many conflicting requirements. Existing infrastructure needs to be managed to get maximum usage out of every kilometre. There"s ever-growing pressure to lower costs, improve the efficient use of capital and drive for higher levels of service quality.
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Managed Motorways Service
TRL has worked with the Highways Agency on three options for managed motorways, from their initial conception and development to implementation. The options are Controlled Motorways, Active Traffic Management and, more recently, Basic Controlled ...
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Safety and Security
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Road Safety
TRL has been delivering road safety projects and advice in the UK and overseas for over 60 years and employs one of the largest dedicated teams of road safety experts anywhere in the world. We are committed to achieving the aims and objectives of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety ...
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Vehicle Safety
TRL’s vehicle safety scientists and engineers have been instrumental in improving the structural design and integrity of vehicles over several decades. We are also responsible for protecting occupants and other road users in impacts, and developing collision avoidance and warning ...
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Accident Research
The number of people killed on the world’s roads is forecast to rise to approximately two million per year by 2020. Road traffic injuries represent a significant public health problem, and accident research identifies and quantifies their causes and ...
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Investigations
TRL has led many high profile and sensitive investigations, most notably Operation Paget, the Metropolitan Police inquiry which investigated the various conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. TRL had particular responsibility for interpretation of the scene evidence, detailed accident reconstruction and vehicle dynamics simulation and visualisation of the fatal ...
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Rail Safety
Building upon decades of experience in road safety, TRL has developed considerable expertise in rail safety including passenger, user and worker ...
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Risk Management
TRL has expertise in risk assessment, risk management and the development and implementation of control strategies and cost effective ...
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Cyber Security
TRL has a wealth of knowledge within transport and transport systems, which is being applied to cyber security and the mitigation of risks. Total cyber security management goes beyond a technology solution and an organisation must understand the risks posed to their operations and mitigate against those risks, deploying a total solution approach encompassing technology, assets, physical and human ...
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Safety and Security Barrier Services
TRL is at the forefront of the safety and security barrier industry; we offer a World leading team with decades of research and testing experience. Our turnkey consultancy services enable us to review and develop new barrier standards, undertake independent product design reviews and continue to improve safety through our international test management ...
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High Speed Video & Analysis Services
TRL has the technical knowledge and digital high-speed know-how derived from decades of full-scale testing in both indoor and outdoor locations. This has given us the experience of filming in the most challenging of light conditions. Our high-speed digital photography plays a key role in the analysis of tests whether it’s for vehicles, child seats, helmets or specialist ...
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Road & Rail Infrastructure
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Sustainable Infrastructure
To be sustainable, transport infrastructure needs to address the global challenges of climate change, carbon reduction and energy use whilst being both resilient and safe. To achieve this, it needs to be built and maintained to long-life and sustainable construction principles, embrace appropriate developments in technology and be adaptable to future ...
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Pavements
TRL has long been involved in the design of new road and airfield pavements, and their maintenance. On the basis of TRL research, the UK was the first country in the world to incorporate long-life or threshold designs for both new pavements and the rehabilitation of existing ...
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Ground Engineering
TRL’s ground engineering expertise encompasses geotechnical engineering, engineering geology, engineering geomorphology, geoenvironmental engineering, and waste and resource ...
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Low Volume Roads
TRL’s understanding of providing community access through developing locally sustainable maintenance practices for low volume roads is second to none. Our experience has been gained over sixty years working in developing countries on projects funded by Department for International Development, World Bank, EU, Asian Development Bank and other bilateral aid ...
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Rail Infrastructure
Rail infrastructure, encompassing track, structures, earthworks and buildings, needs to provide increasing capacity and improved resilience, while reducing costs in future control periods. The Rail Technology Strategy includes designing in tolerance for natural hazards and unforeseen occurrences, and modernising asset inspection, assessment and maintenance in its vision for future railway ...
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Laboratory Testing
TRL has a range of test facilities that are extensively used to provide investigations and structural assessment of a diverse range of products and construction materials. The independent assessment we provide supports the development of new products by private sector clients, from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to major ...