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Tan to increase street studies EXPENDITURE on research and development
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by the DoE, which includes the work of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, is estimated at £25.2m for the current financial year compared with £19.8mfor 1973/4; according to the Department's second annual report on Research and Development.
The movement of freight continues to be a matter of public concern, says the report, but until very recently little research had been concerned with heavy vehicles, except in the safety field. No data existed in this country, nor it is believed anywhere in the world, about the specific origins and destinations of commodity flows of a whole town.
A £500.000 research programme has been initiated to study heavy vehicle flows, their environmental impact, and how traffic control and traffic management would affect vehicle movement. Following street surveys in Putney, Newbury and Camberley, a comprehensive study is underway in Swindon and similar work will follow in Hull and elsewhere. Schemes are also being carried out in cooperation with the GLC.
The work on the development of a quiet heavy vehicle is continuing and the DoE hopes to demonstrate the resulting vehicle towards the end of 1976. Research on vehicle exhaust emissions is being increased substantially in view of the concern expressed at all levels about the effects of these emissions on the environment. Included in the programme are studies of the fundamental factors of diesel engine design which affect exhaust emissions.