Calls to refine eCall safety system after 66% false alarms12/08/2025 Two-thirds of eCall activations are false alarms, according to a new report published by the RAC Foundation. |
Is electric replacing diesel as the fleet's 'workhorse'?17/07/2025 More than one in twenty car miles in the UK is now driven by a zero-emission car, according to new research. |
Patchy mobile signal could leave drivers empty at the EV pump08/04/2024 Britain’s patchy phone signal coverage means drivers of electric vehicles could fail to ‘fill up’ at thousands of chargepoints, new research has found. |
RAC Foundation/ADEPT: Record result in UK bridges poll27/03/2024 The latest RAC Foundation 'state of the nation' bridges survey has recorded the lowest proportion of substandard bridges since the poll began in 2016. |
RAC Foundation: Connected vehicle market needs a mixed economy27/07/2023 A new report from the RAC Foundation outlines the public and private sector funding models needed to grow the connected vehicle services market and realise wider societal benefits. |
RAC Foundation/ADEPT survey: Bridge backlog rises to almost £6bn17/03/2023 Great Britain is facing a total bridge maintenance backlog of close to £6bn, an increase of some £400m, as the nation saw another 14 partial bridge collapses over the last year. |
Carbon cuts without mileage cuts 'a monumental challenge'28/02/2023 The UK doesn't need to drive less to reach its climate change goals but...battery electric vehicles may need to jump from 2% to 35% of the total fleet by 2030, according to new modelling. |
Graduated driver licensing 'could save thousands of lives'14/10/2022 A new study has found that graduated driver licensing (GDL) can improve road safety while having 'minimal impact' on new drivers’ access to education, employment and social activities. |
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. |
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