Research Briefing
Parking: enforcement officers
This note explains the different responsibilities of civil enforcement officers, traffic wardens and others for enforcing parking restrictions.
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Research Briefing
Parking: lorries in residential areas
This note briefly sets out the law regarding the parking of HGVs on the road.
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Research Briefing
Roads: pedestrian accidents on the pavement
This note describes the duty of the local highway authority to maintain the highway (including, in the definition of that term, pavements) and those defences that an authority can use if a pedestrian is injured on the pavement.
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Research Briefing
Transport and Works Act 1992
This Note explains why the TWA was introduced and how it works.
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Research Briefing
Transport Policy in 2010: a rough guide
This paper gives an overview of transport policy in the UK in 2010. It examines a range of issues related to transport policy, including policy-makers, spending on and sources of funding for transport, the transport policy of the main political parties, and the challenges in formulating transport policy in 2010.
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Research Briefing
Transport: rural areas
This note explains the Government's approach to rural transport.
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Research Briefing
Eddington Transport Study
This note sets out the conclusions of the 2006 Eddington study into transport and the economy and subsequent responses to it.
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Research Briefing
Working time directive and road transport
This note explains the rules relating to the applicability, or not, of the Working Time Regulations 1998 in the road transport sector.
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Research Briefing
Motor vehicles: bull bars
This note outlines the proscriptions on bull bars set out in European legislation.
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Research Briefing
Drivers’ hours
This note outlines the European and domestic drivers' hours rules and how they are enforced. It does not cover working time rules.
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Research Briefing
Motor vehicles: registration plates
Updated with details of the changes to permit the display of national symbols on number plates, which came into force in April 2009.
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Research Briefing
Motor vehicles: daytime running lights
In September 2008 the European Commission confirmed that daytime running lights would be fitted to all new vehicles from 2011.
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Research Briefing
The Road Haulage Industry : costs and taxes
The Road Haulage Industry : costs and taxes. House of Commons Library Research Paper 08/68
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Research Briefing
Transport in London
Transport in London. House of Commons Library Research Paper 08/36
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