The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and TRL have agreed a strategic partnership to enable development and application of world class transport research, innovation and technology.
New research from Ireland’s Road Safety Authority (RSA) has revealed that child fatalities (children up to 14 years of age) decreased by 45.6 per cent in the period 1997 to 2009. 246 children up to 14 years old were killed on Irish roads during this period; an additional 1,013 were seriously injured.
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) has been awarded a US$14.9 million (£9m) research contract from the US Department of Transportation (USDOT), to conduct a safety pilot model deployment of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure safety applications in Ann Arbor.
