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Achieving real efficiency is one of the six outcomes National Highways (formerly Highways England) is required to deliver in the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2), set by government in March 2020.

In June 2021, the Climate Change Committee announced in its assessment of UK climate risk, that “climate change has arrived”.

All lane running (ALR) motorways are relatively new to Britain and understandably there are questions to understand their safety relative to conventional motorways.

The recent fine handed down to Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) operator, WH Malcolm Limited, was one of the largest ever for a health and safety offence on the railway. Why did we prosecute them?

If you’ve ever travelled using a new railway station or a sparkling new train then you may have wondered about the amount of work that has been undertaken to make this happen.

We have challenged and worked with the rail industry to deliver a step change in customer satisfaction with information provision specifically through greater industry wide collaboration.

A new fully electrified train service, running twice hourly between Corby and London St Pancras, has been introduced by East Midlands Railway (EMR).

ORR's heritage railway safety team has helped make possible what appeared to be a dramatic action sequence in the upcoming Mission: Impossible film. Steve Turner, principal inspector of railways, explains more.

By the end of 2021 almost 30,000 passenger-facing staff will have undertaken disability awareness and equality training as part of requirements set out in our Accessible Travel Policy (ATP) Guidance to help improve a disabled passenger’s journey.

I joined ORR six years ago as a Civil Engineer. Before joining the Civil Service, I had been working in the UK infrastructure sector for several years, both as an Engineering Consultant and for Network Rail.