Longer Semi-Trailer Trial
GB Longer Semi-trailer Trial (LST): UPDATE 10 May 2023
DfT Announces new regulations for widespead use of LSTs and end date for trial more...
Rail performance investigation tools
Risk Solutions brought together performance managers from five UK train operating companies to discuss the data and tools they use to investigate train service performance and identify ways to improve passenger journeys. The aim of this research work, funded by City, University of London, was to identify strengths and weaknesses with the current analytical processes, […] more...
Does social distancing impact rail performance?
New modelling work and research for RSSB have shown that although social distancing might increase dwell times, the overall performance impact is not significant nor widespread. As train operators welcome passengers back to the railway, the industry needed to understand the impact of increasing numbers and continued social distance to better manage network performance. Good […] more...
Rail performance modelling
Risk Solutions and City University of London have successfully delivered research for RSSB to explore knock-on train delays, partnering with Greater Anglia, Great Western Railway and Network Rail. The result is Savi, a Rail Performance Model with a set of powerful interactive visualisations of modelling results.
Savi is now being used by train operators and Network Rail to explore the most effective ways to improve service performance and build more resilient timetables. more...
Heat Networks Investment Project
Risk Solutions and partners are delivering a multi-wave process and impact evaluation of BEIS' Heat Networks investment project, which aims to help scale up the market for heat networks in the UK by investing £320m in individual projects across England and Wales. more...
Understanding the Impact of Interacting Risks
Climate change affects many sectors, but the way that climate change risks interact between sectors is not well understood. Risk Solutions are working with climate resilience experts from WSP, ADAS and UCL, helping the Climate Change Committee (CCC) better understand how climate related risks interact and how the effects of risks cascading through systems can affect impacts. The study represents an important new source of evidence for the UK governments next climate change risk assessment. more...
Development of a Network Performance Model
The network performance model (NPM) was developed for Highways England by Risk Solutions. It is a software model that supports analysis of traffic performance on the strategic road network (SRN). It is used by the HA national intelligence unit (NIU) to support their analysis of network performance.
Highways England uses this type of analysis to characterise the past performance of its roads, as well as to project scenarios about its expected future performance given various road investment strategies. more...
Developing a Safety Risk Model
Risk Solutions has developed a comprehensive Safety Risk Model that analyses the risks to road users, road workers and Traffic Officers associated with the operation, maintenance and improvement of the Strategic Road Network (SRN) in England. The work involves sophisticated data analytics and visualisation of complex road safety risk. more...
Drug Driving evaluation
Our evaluation of the first year of operation of the drug driving legislation introduced in 2015 has been published by the Department for Transport. more...
Agent Based Modelling: what is the big deal about policy?
This event run by NEKS ('New Economic Knowledge Services ltd' https://www.neks.ltd/) allowed attendees to better understand how ABMs are best used to inform policy and regulatory strategies. It is given by people who have both built and used ABMs. Jonathan Hyde from Risk Solutions presents at the event, describing how our agent based models solve real world complex problems. more...