The CEO of the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) has welcomed views expressed in Federal Parliament on a renewed push for road safety in Australia. During a speech made last night to the House of Representatives, the Shadow ...
Tags: ANCAP, Road Safety
Self-driving vehicle technology is not yet at a stage that it can be authorized for use by the public for general driving, according to a U.S. Department of Transportation recommendation to state governments. If a state decides to permit ...
Tags: Road Safety, Driverless Car
The ‘Road Ahead’ before the update. The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) will completely renew its well-travelled mobile road safety exhibition, the Road Ahead. The $1.3 million trailer will be redeveloped after being ...
Tags: Transport, Service, Travelling Road
In any automobile, lighting is a very essential component. With continuous developments in LED and adaptive lighting technologies, many automotive manufacturers have ended up lowering the level of energy consumption in various lighting ...
Coles has been a focus of the TWU's road transport campaign. Truck drivers and their employers presented a united front at the TWU National Council in Darwin in their calls for a greater focus on road safety in the supply chain. ARTIO ...
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Adaptive forward lighting (i.e. glare-free camera-controlled headlamps that react instantly to changing conditions at night) is to help keep drivers and their passengers safer, as a consortium of high-tech automotive firms design and build ...
Tags: Osram LED headlamps, Electronics
Adaptive forward lighting, in other words glare-free camera-controlled headlamps that react instantly, will be helping drivers even more in the future thanks to additional intelligent functions. The key to this complex functionality is the ...
Tags: LED Forward Lighting, LED Lighting
Plans announced by the Coalition to review the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal in the event of winning September’s Federal election ignore all of the evidence collected over twenty years showing a direct relationship between pay and ...
Tags: Coalition, Coalition IR Policy
The NSW and Australian Governments have announced major funding of almost $50 million to improve transport and freight links in country NSW. Almost $10 million has been allocated to build new overtaking lanes on the Newell Highway, which ...
The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has released what it calls alarming new evidence from a survey of more than 950 truck drivers across the country that graphically highlights the pressures in Australia’s most dangerous industry ...
Tags: Chain of Responsibility, TWU
Green roads are one of the types of roads which are particularly un- surfaced and usually an unpaved rural route. Shoulder is another word used for the reserved area by the verge of a road and is usually slightly narrower than a full ...
Tags: Green Roads, Green Shoulders
Federal Transport and Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese has piled a few additional responsibilities onto his already sizeable portfolio following the aborted leadership challenge in the Labor party. Despite being a Kevin Rudd ...
Tags: Albanese, logistics, Federal Transport
Tony Abbott's pledge to improving road safety should be welcomed, but as the rail industry well knows, measures that get trucks off the roads will always be best option for improving road safety. It is only when the Coalition makes a ...
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Learner drivers in NSW will be able to cut their compulsory supervised driving hours by one third and travel at higher speeds following a shake-up of the learner program announced by the State Government today. Roads Minister Duncan Gay ...
Tags: NSW, driving hours, higher speeds
Residents of the East Sussex town of Battle have been invited to give their views on proposals that would see streetlights switched off during the night. Battle Town Council wants to power down its lighting between midnight and 05:30 in ...
Tags: Battle Council, streetlights, LED lighting