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The number of people killed on EU roads fell by just 1% last year, and by just 4% over the last five years, according to the latest European Transport Safety Council Road Safety Performance Index Annual Report. The EU target to cut road deaths in half over the decade to 2020 now looks out of reach. The ETSC say meeting that target would...

W.D.M. Limited USA's entire fleet of SCRIM® road survey machines has successfully come through the annual UK accreditation trials – plus the new vehicle built specifically for the US market. A total of 18 machines were assessed by TRL at the MIRA track near Nuneaton –the eight machines from WDM’s UK fleet...

Brussels –The European Parliament has given the green light to new minimum EU vehicle safety requirements that will come into force from 2022.  The vote by the full parliament follows a provisional deal reached by the EU institutions last month.  According to the final deal on the legislation, new cars, vans, lorries and buses sold in Europe...

Each year the SCRIM® truck monitors the condition of the entire 11,000km of the national highway network. At just 17.8 kilometres long, State Highway 53 in South Wairarapa may appear as a relatively unimportant stretch of road. In terms of safety on the national highway network, however, this road linking Featherston and Martinborough shoulders a big responsibility. The New Zealand Transport...

Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) have approved a range of new vehicle safety standards. The measures include new crash testing requirements, mandatory installation of driver assistance systems including Automated Emergency Braking (AEB) with pedestrian and cyclist detection, overridable Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) and Emergency Lane Keeping, as well as a...

There was an enthusiastic reception for WDM USA’s inaugural attendance at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. with enquiries from Federal, State and Local levels about the continuous measurement of wet pavement surface friction. WDM USA was joined by W.D.M. Limited, from Bristol, and more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around...

A new SCRIM® road survey machine is on its way from Bristol to China. The machine, which was built by WDM Limited USA, was put on the back of a low loader for the journey by road to Southampton before leaving by boat for the trip to Guandong. The SCRIM® machine measures the wet road skid resistance...

WDM®’s Pavement Management Software (PMS) applications have been given a clean bill of health by the Road Condition Management Group on behalf of the UK Roads Board. The Company submits its PMS and UKPMS software modules for an annual health check and has been awarded its certificate for its system version 4.12.0. The purpose of the health check...