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1 August 2008
UK government plans for the introduction of biofuels are set to be scaled back following last month’s publication of a hard-hitting report by the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA), part of the government’s Department for Transport.
Truck registration figures that seem to defy economic gravity
1 August 2008
An array of economic indicators pointing to an alarming economic slow-down in the UK is confounded by truck registration figures from The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). These show that the total number of new trucks (over 3.5 tonnes gvw) registered here in the first half of this year reached 30,093, fully 33 per cent up on the same period in 2007.
Government spells out plans for VOSA
1 August 2008
Long-running uncertainty over government plans for the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) ended last month with a House of Commons statement from junior transport minister Jim Fitzpatrick. The essence of the statement is that the government has decided to keep statutory commercial vehicle testing in England, Scotland and Wales in the public sector.
Engineering safety into road design
1 August 2008
A third of the deaths and serious injuries resulting from road accidents in the UK could be prevented by small additional expenditure on safer road design, mainly signs, lines, kerbs and barriers. The startling claim comes from the Road Safety Foundation, a charity founded in 1986 by what was then the Automobile Association with the aim of creating a permanent legacy from the 1986 European Road Safty Year.
Engineering should go public, says SOE president
1 August 2008
Engineering institutions, including the SOE, need to be much more active and effective in telling the public about what engineers do and how they do it. The call was made last month in central London by Ian Ling as he began his second term as SOE president. “There is no mileage in being the best engineer in the world if the world around you does not know what you are best at,” said Mr Ling.
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