Department for Transport

This handy reference title illustrates and explains the vast majority of traffic signs that a road user is likely to encounter. ...more

• Published: 23 Jul 2007
• ISBN: 9780115528552
• £4.99

This publication sets out the statutory requirements for signing, lighting, and guarding excavations and other street works. This is the core reference manual for utility companies, local authorities, street work contractors and others whose day-to-day business involves street work....more

• Published: 08 Nov 2001
• ISBN: 9780115519581
• £7.50

This code of practice provides practical guidance and advice for street authorities and undertakers in England on their legal responsibilities in relation to street or highway works including:...more

• Published: 18 Jan 2013
• ISBN: 9780115532511
• £24.50

Shared use routes are designed to accommodate the movement of pedestrians and cyclists. This Local Transport Note (LTN) 1/12 Shared Use Routes for Pedestrians and Cyclists focuses on routes within built-up areas where the predominant function of the route is for utility transport, and where use by ...more

• Published: 18 Sep 2012
• ISBN: 9780115532436
• £38.00

This document is issued in accordance with regulation 11(3) of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2009 as amended (CDG 2009); regulation 8(3) of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable ...more

• Published: 16 Apr 2012
• ISBN: 9780115532139
• £20.00

'Shared Space' is a design approach that seeks to change the way streets operate by reducing the dominance of motor vehicles, primarily through lower speeds and encouraging drivers to behave more accommodatingly towards pedestrians. ...more

• Published: 20 Oct 2011
• ISBN: 9780115532092
• £32.00

'Management of Electronic Traffic Equipment: A Code of Practice' contains important guidance for local authorities that own and operate electronic traffic equipment on their network. ...more

• Published: 22 Sep 2011
• ISBN: 9780115531699
• £35.00

'Bus Services after the Spending Review (HC 750)' reports the Transport Committee's findings that extensive cuts to rural, evening and weekend bus services are damaging the ability of many people - especially the old, young or disabled - ...more

• Published: 11 Aug 2011
• ISBN: 9780215561176
• £22.00

Prepared by the Department for Transport, the 'Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways' sets out the statutory requirements for materials, performance and standards of workmanship for use in association with street works by utilities and other undertakers with apparatus in the street....more

• Published: 26 Apr 2010
• ISBN: 9780115531415
• £36.00

'Practical Guide to Street Works', provides practical advice to assist good workmanship and promote the highest standards of reinstatement by site operatives and supervisors. The information is divided into sections and presented in the order a reinstatement is undertaken: from signing, excavating, reinstating, and leaving a completed job....more

• Published: 14 Jun 2006
• ISBN: 9780115527463
• £11.95

'An Introduction to the Use of Portable Vehicular Signals – Second Edition' is a complete update of the first edition, published in 1986, reflecting all of the changes in guidelines related to the use of vehicle actuated traffic signals. ...more

• Published: 05 Mar 2008
• ISBN: 9780115529368
• £9.00

The 2009 edition of 'Reported Road Casualties Great Britain' presents detailed statistics about the circumstances of personal injury road accidents. Some 50 data items are collected by the police STATS19 system for each accident, including the time and location of the accident, the types ...more

• Published: 24 Sep 2010
• ISBN: 9780115531620
• £46.00

This Local Transport Note provides guidance about pedestrian guardrailing for local authorities. It describes the development of policy guidance on guardrailing and an assessment procedure for the evaluation of the need for the installation or removal ...more

• Published: 29 Apr 2009
• ISBN: 9780115530654
• £25.00

This Local Transport Note seeks to provide assistance to those involved in the design and operation of signalised roundabouts. This includes roundabouts to which signals have been added, as well as junctions designed as signalised roundabouts from the outset....more

• Published: tbc
• ISBN: 9780115530548
• £Not known

Encouraging more people to cycle is increasingly being seen as a vital part of any local authority plan to tackle congestion, improve air quality, promote physical activity and improve accessibility. This design guide brings together and updates guidance previously available in a number of draft Local Transport Notes ...more

• Published: 04 Nov 2008
• ISBN: 9780115530241
• £29.00

This document reviews the experience from the ten schemes involved in the Department for Transport's Mixed Priority Route (MPR) Demonstration Project and presents the lessons learned through the project to assist other authorities in developing similar successful schemes. ...more

• Published: 17 Oct 2008
• ISBN: 9780115530272
• £23.00

This guide, 'Traffic Management and Streetscape: Local Transport Note 1/08', helps all those participating in the design of traffic management measures to prepare schemes that consider and care for the streetscape. It assists hands-on designers, project enablers ...more

• Published: 31 Mar 2008
• ISBN: 9780115529429
• £22.00

The importance of public lighting maintenance to the integrated transport network, to public amenity and safety, and to crime reduction, has never been more widely recognised. ...more

• Published: 30 Nov 2004
• ISBN: 9780115526329
• £11.00