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TMS undertakes Train the Trainer Workshop in Budapest, Hungary

27th January 2012

TMS has undertaken a Train the Trainer Road Safety Workshop in Budapest, Hungary, as part of the European Commission funded SOL (Save Our Lives) project. The workshop was attended by delegates from 8 central and eastern European countries and observers from Cambodia and Vietnam. The ... read more...

Academics and practitioners share ideas on road user behaviour

11th January 2012

TMS hosted a road user behaviour seminar on 10 January at the Chase Hotel in Coventry. The event was attended by over 45 practitioners and academics from across the UK, and was designed to give opportunities for discussion of new ideas relating to road users. George Dunbar, a ... read more...

TMS roll out Workplace Transport Safety Training for Scottish Hospitals

3rd January 2012

Following a successful pilot course held in Lanarkshire (see news item 31st May 2011) TMS have now delivered further workplace transport safety training for key operational and safety management staff of the Lothian NHS Board in Edinburgh. This two-day course, which includes an ... read more...

Cyprus Road Safety Auditors trained by TMS

3rd January 2012

TMS has just completed a project for the Public Works Department (PWD) of the Republic of Cyprus, in response to the training requirements of the European Directive on Road Infrastructure Safety Management. Ten engineers from Cyprus attended a five day course put together by TMS in ... read more...

TMS commissioned to carry out Road Safety Audit for Qatar National Museum, Doha

22nd September 2011

In August 2011 TMS carried out a Stage 1 Road Safety Audit of the concept design for surrounding roads for the New Qatar National Museum, in Doha, on behalf of Parsons International Ltd. The new museum promises to be another iconic architectural masterpiece in the State of Qatar, and ... read more...

TMS wins major training contract with Global Road Safety Partnership

20th September 2011

TMS has been awarded a contract to produce six training packages and will be working closely with GRSP in Geneva and Budapest to deliver the work. The work involves writing training packages on a range of subjects including speed management, drink driving, child road safety, and ... read more...

TMS on site for its 10,000th Road Safety Audit

TMS hit the 10,000 milestone for Road Safety Audits

13th September 2011

This week has seen TMS reach a significant milestone in the company's Road Safety Audit history; the 10,000th Road Safety Audit has been carried out by auditors Darren Newbold and Robert Cyples. Over the last 21 years TMS has developed an extensive client profile with numerous Local ... read more...

Blackpool Council commission TMS and PJA to carry out a Post Scheme Quality and Access Audit of the public realm on Blackpool Promenade

6th September 2011

TMS and Phil Jones Associates have recently been commissioned by Blackpool Council to carry out a Post Scheme Quality and Access Audit of the public realm, associated with a scheme recently implemented as part of Blackpool's Promenade Movement Strategy. In addition to the combined ... read more...

Two National Road Safety Audits for TMS in Ireland

2nd September 2011

TMS has recently completed road safety audits at pre-tender stage on two national road schemes near Mullingar in Ireland. N4 The Downs The first audit was on the "N4 The Downs" project, which is an on-line improvement of 5.5km of dual carriageway. The current road has numerous central ... read more...

TMS launch a series of London based training courses

18th August 2011

TMS has recently launched a series of training courses which are London based, starting from September 2011. The courses will take place in excellent conference facilities in Central London. These training courses are all designed to provide high quality Continuing Professional ... read more...

"Risk Assessors get on their bikes"

18th August 2011

TMS has just completed a two day course for Worcestershire County Council for Instructors involved in "Bikeability". The objective of the course was to teach the Instructors how to carry out site based risk assessments for that part of the training where Instructors teach ... read more...

TMS signs letter in The Times newspaper

12th July 2011

Steve Proctor, Director of TMS, was a co-signatory to the letter printed in The Times newspaper on 11th July 2011. The letter, signed by four former Road Safety Ministers, and a number of professionals working in the field, welcomes the recent reduction in casualty numbers, but ... read more...

Raynesway, Derby - Stage 3 Road Safety Audit

TMS completes final audit at major junction improvement in Derby

17th June 2011

TMS has recently completed its final (post construction) road safety audit of a major junction improvement scheme in Derby. The A6/A5111 Raynesway junction has been grade separated to replace the previous at-grade roundabout. This is to facilitate a commercial park development nearby. ... read more...

TMS Safety Audit training in Malta

7th June 2011

TMS Director Steve Proctor recently returned from a two week trip to Malta in which he undertook an intensive road safety training course on behalf of staff working for Transport Malta. The two week course included classroom training in road safety engineering and safety audit and a ... read more...

TMS has re-launched their Traffic Management and Road Safety training programme in Ireland for 2011

31st May 2011

A number of new courses have been added to our Irish training course programme to complement some of the old favourites. The first courses in May were well received and more are planned for June, July and later in the year. For more information on the road safety and traffic related ... read more...

TMS develop a new course in Workplace Transport Safety

31st May 2011

TMS were approached recently to develop a new training course for a large Health Sector client aimed at enabling key staff to undertake Workplace Transport Safety Assessments. The two-day course, which includes an assessed operational site visit and report was succesfully piloted last ... read more...

TMS working in the Middle East

10th May 2011

TMS are carrying out a Safety Audit on a major road scheme in the rapidly expanding city of Doha. TMS are working for AECOM on the The Al-Muntazah Street Extension scheme, which will cater for the high traffic volumes associated with the Barwa Commercial and Barwa City Developments in ... read more...

TMS delivers highway safety training to Surrey Parish Councils

22nd March 2011

When Surrey Police wanted to further their 'Drive SMART' campaign to educate drivers and crack down on anti-social driving by equipping local parish councils in the Guildford borough with portable vehicle-activated speed limit signs, who else would they ask to provide highway safety ... read more...

TMS to write Road Safety Audit procedures for Bucks County Council

16th March 2011

TMS has been asked to write local Road Safety Audit procedures for Buckinghamshire County Council. The procedures will look specifically at how the Council undertakes audits on local roads, and will build on the advice provided in the CIHT Road Safety Audit Guidelines. The objective ... read more...

Steve Proctor to speak at International Road Safety Audit conference

14th March 2011

Aston University is holding a Road Safety Audit conference on 7th April with speakers discussing safety audit in Europe and the Far East, and the UK response to the Decade of Action on Road Safety. Steve Proctor, Director of TMS will be speaking at the conference regarding ... read more...

TMS launches new de-cluttering service

9th March 2011

TMS is launching a street de-cluttering service that could involve carrying out audits aimed at rationalising signing and street furniture, and could also involve providing advice to designers of new schemes to ensure that signing and other street furniture is kept to an absolute ... read more...

New courses launched for 2011

25th February 2011

TMS now has the following new courses available for 2011. All courses will be held at training venues in Coventry. Road Restraints and Passive Safety Streetscape and Road Safety Road Safety Audit Awareness Operational Highway Safety Statistics in Road Safety Installing and ... read more...

TMS trains Road Safety Auditors for Abu Dhabi Municipality

25th February 2011

In order to reduce the number of collisions on its roads the Municipality of Abu Dhabi introduced a Road Safety Audit standard, based on the UK's HD19/03, in 2010 which requires all new highway schemes to be safety audited. To assist with this requirement, TMS provided Road Safety ... read more...

Irish Road Safety Auditors now certified "competent"!

18th February 2011

TMS is pleased to announce that 28 Road Safety Auditors have now been awarded a Certificate of Competency as a result of attending the professional certificate in Road Safety Audit course which took place at University College Dublin in the autumn of 2010. This vocational course ... read more...

TMS exhibit at RoSPA Congress for the third year

17th February 2011

For the third year running, TMS exhibited at the new format RoSPA Congress which was held at Maple House in Birmingham on 15th February 2011. The one-day seminar titled "Road Safety in a time of reduced public spending" was attended by delegates from Local Authorities, Fire ... read more...

UK Road Safety Audit "Grandfathers" to have opportunity to obtain Certificate of Competency

17th February 2011

The European Directive on Road Infrastructure Safety Management (2008/96/CE) requires that Road Safety Auditors operating on the Trans European Road Network undertake an initial training resulting in the award of a Certificate of Competency (Article 9, para 2). New Auditors can obtain ... read more...

TMS exhibit at the 2nd Annual Shared Spaces Conference

28th January 2011

On 25th January 2011, TMS were involved in exhibiting at the 2nd Annual Shared Spaces Conference. This was a one day conference held at 15 Hatfields in London. The conference attracted a wide range of delegates from public agencies to private developers, transport planners and place ... read more...

TMS to carry out traffic management study and risk assessment at a school for autistic children

28th January 2011

TMS has recently been commissioned to carry out a traffic management study and workplace transport risk assessment at a school for autistic children in the West Midlands. The school is set in 58 acres of rural parkland, and specialises in the care of children and young people with ... read more...

TMS kicks-off Quality Audit service

28th January 2011

TMS and Phil Jones Associates have been commissioned to provide a Quality Audit of two public realm schemes. The two schemes, one being a future super-hospital in Bristol and one being an urban regeneration project in Cheshire based on shared space principles, will both shortly be at ... read more...

Northern Ireland DBFO2 Package nearing completion

27th January 2011

Work is coming to a close on a £250 million pound package of work to upgrade transport links in Northern Ireland. As part of Northern Ireland Roads Service Strategic Network Transport Plan, Package 2 of a Design, Build, Finance and Operate contract was identified to upgrade ... read more...