Maintaining roads efficiently is a complex task. Road maintenance organisations are looking for more efficient, cost-effective, and safe ways to maintain their networks. This means optimisation across the board: network inspections, maintenance programming, and inventory management.
Heald has launch a bridge-specific protection system that takes into account the level of security needed while ensuring the structural integrity of the infrastructure.
Drivers under the influence of drugs present a major hazard to road safety, according to a new report. This publication is being highlighted by the Pan-European police agency, TISPOL, in a bid to improve road safety and cut casualties. The risk from driving under the influence of psychoactive drugs results in road fatalities and injuries from crashes right across Europe, according to the report. The problem related to both legal prescription medication, as well as illegal drugs. Both classifications can be
Children are at serious risk on Europe’s road network. This is the finding of a new report from the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC). According to the ETSC’s analysis of crash data, more than 8,000 children aged 0-14 years have been killed in road traffic collisions over the last 10 years in the European Union. Half of the children killed were travelling in cars, a third were walking and 13% were cycling, with one in every 13 child deaths in the European Union being the result of a road collision.
