The TRL Annual Research Review 2009 presents a summary of the year’s activities and achievements. It includes an overview of TRL’s main research highlights, a description of some of the specialist services and consultancy support that TRL provides for its customers and a comprehensive listing of reports and papers published in 2009. Some selected full papers are included as follows: • Developing the automatic measurement of surface conditions on local roads. Alex Wright, Helen Viner, Andrew Gallagher and Edward Bunting. • Car rollover mechanisms and injury outcome. Richard Cuerden, Rebecca Cookson and David Richards. • Quantifying the benefits of new bus priority logic in SCOOT. Helen Gibson. • A common approach to understanding strengths and limitations of different cost–benefit analysis techniques. Tanya Robinson (née Smith) and Iain Knight. • From research to commercial fuel efficiency training for truck drivers using TruckSim. Nick Reed, Stephanie Cynk and Andrew Parkes. (Author/publisher)
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