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RISK MANAGEMENT

Minister for Roads and Road Safety Melissa Horne has announced a new Safe Local Roads and Streets Program will get underway over four years to boost safety for road users.

Boosting safety on local council roads

The Victorian Government is helping local governments across Victoria deliver road safety improvements to council-managed roads, intersections and precincts. Minister for Roads and Road Safety...

FAMILY SAFETY

The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) said it was going to be a busy time on farms and renewed its annual appeal for motorists to be on the lookout for tractors, trailers and other agricultural machinery exiting from fields and farmyards.

Road safety plea during silage season

Drivers in Ireland are being urged to share the road safely with farming machinery as the silage cutting season gets underway. The Irish Farmers’ Association...

MOTORCYCLES

The project will investigate the extent of under-reporting of e-scooter casualties and ways in which it could be improved, consider the DfT evaluation report of the e-scooter trial rental schemes and respond to the Government’s proposed Transport Bill.

Further funding to assess e-scooter safety

The Road Safety Trust has provided funding to The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) to assess private e-scooter safety and understand casualty...

DRIVING FOR WORK

The study looks at three critical challenges for nationwide vehicle electrification US electricity supply and demand, electric vehicle production and truck charging requirements.

New study investigates converting US vehicle fleet to electric

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has released a new report that assesses the infrastructure requirements for converting the US vehicle fleet to battery...
The ETSC said the European Commission was coming under pressure from the road transport industry to decrease the recommended minimum age of professional drivers in all sectors to 18, with training allowed from aged 17.

Safety body calls for age of professional drivers not be to...

The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is calling for the minimum driving age for all vehicle categories not to be decreased further claiming it...
The small-scale observational study, carried out on behalf of the Association of French Motorway Companies (ASFA), found on average drivers used their telephone ten times per hour while driving, for an average duration of use of 32 seconds.

Study shows lorry drivers spent 9% of driving time on the...

Lorry drivers spent an average of nine per cent of driving time using their mobile phone, according to a new study. The small-scale observational study,...