Transport Research Laboratory documents within the Construction Information Service

• Review of drainage behind retaining walls
• Review of drainage to earth retaining structures for highways
• Review of HGV crossover accidents, and the relative costs of steel and concrete barriers (phase II report)
• Review of hydraulically bound materials for use in Scotland
• Review of Iterlene ACF 1000 as a bitumen regenerator for hot asphalt mixtures
• Review of joint repair techniques for thin surface course systems
• Review of pedestrian walking speeds and time needed to cross the road
• Review of protection provided by surface dressings and thin surfacings to structural pavements
• Review of Shell Thiopave sulphur-extended asphalt modifier
• Review of simplified streetscape schemes
• Review of the class and quality of street lighting
• Review of the lighting requirement for traffic signs and bollards
• Review of the use of live willow poles for stabilising highway slopes
• Review of the use of spaced piles to stabilise embankment and cutting slopes
• Road design measures to reduce drivers speed via psychological processes: A literature review
• Road foundation design for major UK highways
• Road haunches: a guide to maintenance practice
• Road layout design standards and driver behaviour
• Road surface noise - update (2008-2010)
• Road surface properties and high speed friction - the effect of permeability
• Road trials of stone mastic asphalt and other thin surfacings
• Rock engineering guides to good practice: road rock slope excavation
• Rock engineering guides to good practice: rock slope remedial and maintenance work
• Rock slope risk assessment
• Route safety management and evaluation guidance
• Safety barriers - update (2005-2008)
• Simplified tables of external loads on buried pipelines
• Site investigation - update (2006–2009)
• Skid resistance behaviour of thin surface course systems
• Soil mechanics / settlement - update (2007-2009)
• Soil nailing for slopes
• Some aspects of the interaction between landslides and forestry operations
• Some considerations affecting the selection of tunnelling methods
• Sources of information for site investigations in Britain
• Specification for foamed concrete
• Specification for low temperature asphalt mixtures
• Specification for suitability testing of stress absorbing materials behind integral bridge abutments
• Specification for the TRRL frost-heave test
• Stabilised sub-bases in road foundations: structural assessment and benefits
• Stabilized capping layers using either lime, or cement, or lime and cement
• Steel corrosion in reinforced concrete - update (2008-2010)
• Strengthening of concrete structures using near surface mounted FRP reinforcement
• Structural design and laying of small underground drains of rigid materials
• Structural design and pilot-scale trials of modular cellular paving for greened safe havens and emergency access routes
• Structural design of bituminous roads
• Study of costs of cut and cover tunnel construction
• Study of water movement in road pavements
• Suitability testing of materials to absorb lateral stresses behind integral bridge abutments
• Sulfate specification for structural backfills (updated)
• Surface texture measurement on local roads
• Surface treatment options for concrete roads
• Surface treatment options for concrete roads. Ultra-thin surfacing systems
• Survey of slope condition on motorway earthworks in England and Wales
• Sustainable choice of materials for highway works: a guide for local authority highway engineers
• Swell test requirements for lime stabilised materials
• Temporary road markings: Working group findings
• Test of Traficon SafeWalk and C-Walk pedestrian detectors
• Test procedures for durability and adhesion in asphalt
• Theoretical whole life cost modelling of reinforced asphalt
• Thermal imaging of slopes and substructures
• Thickness design of concrete roads
• Through junction running simulation study
• Traffic calming - literature search on the design and performance of traffic calming measures
• Traffic data for highway bridge loading
• Traffic management and concrete safety barriers
• Trial of farside pedestrian signals at a puffin crossing
• Trial of the use of RFID tags in highway pavement maintenance
• Trials of road marking monitor to determine performance levels for network surveys
• Tunnel portal dispersion monitoring
• Tyre bales in construction
• Use and application of the MCA (Moisture Condition Apparatus) with particular reference to glacial tills
• Use of asphalt arisings as a Type 4 sub-base
• Use of crack and seat treatment in the refurbishment of airfield pavements
• Use of high-resolution 3-D surface data to monitor change over time on pavement surfaces. Research into pavement surface disintegration: Phase 3
• Use of intelligent compaction technology
• Use of London clay backfill against the walls of Chestfield tunnel
• Use of lower temperature asphalt in pavement construction: demonstration site construction, in service performance and specification
• Use of passively safe signposts and lighting columns
• Use of polystyrene for embankment construction
• Use of soil nails for the construction and repair of retaining walls
• Use of traffic speed Lidar in road asset assessment
• Value engineering for tunnel equipment
• Value management for tunnel procedures
• Vegetation for slope stability
• Vehicle activated signs: a large scale evaluation
• Visualisation and display of automated bridge inspection results
• Water management for durable bridges
• Whole life cost model for earthworks slopes
• Whole life cost-benefit analysis for median safety barriers
• Wind tunnel tests on plate girder bridges
• Wise use of landscape resources in road construction and maintenance: Scotland