This report by Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, is a personal observation of the practicalities involved in driving a battery-electric vehicle around south-east England and trying to rec
More than one in six jobs being advertised in the UK requires applicants to be able to drive, analysis suggests.
Research by the RAC Foundation shows that in the first week of October 2023 a total
The RAC Foundation report Driven by information, published in September 2020, sought to establish all the elements needed to achieve the benefits offered by the flow of data from and to increasingly �
An “overwhelming majority” of young people aged 17 to 24 expect to be driving regularly in the future.
Aside from those unable to drive because of a disability of health condition, more than 8
Ensuring the roadworthiness of self-driving technology will be one of the key challenges to ensuring the success and safety of autonomous vehicles, the RAC Foundation has warned.
In its evidence to
Three veteran cars built at the turn of the 20th century have travelled from the capital to the south coast while using the latest in connected technology in what is believed to be the world’s first
The average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time, a figure that has barely changed in quarter of a century.
For the rest of the time the car or van is either parked at home (73%) or
Car clubs – or car sharing as it is known the United States and elsewhere – are an increasingly feature of the transport landscape in the UK and have come a long way since the first ‘modern’ s
The new body that will have the job of monitoring and auditing the behaviour of private parking companies should have powers to carry out no-notice inspections of those firms it suspects of malpractic
Everyday technology already installed in vehicles or added by drivers could enable a range of connected services to be developed and deployed, making driving smoother and safer and traffic management
Creating innovative solutions to the travel problems facing those living in rural communities has been the focus of the latest challenge set by the RAC Foundation and Royal Automobile Club to students
The newest cars in Great Britain do an average of 10,377 miles in each of the first three years after they are registered.
That’s the equivalent of 28 miles per day.
However, there are big dif
The fastest-acting councils in Great Britain aim to fill in the most severe potholes in their roads within minutes.
Cumbria, Flintshire and South Lanarkshire aim to act “immediately” to repair
Analysis by the RAC Foundation of a snapshot of the government’s Find a Job database found that of the 182,062 vacancies on offer on the 14 September 2018, 34,067 (19%) stated that having a car or l
Almost one in five people in the UK have some form of disability and by 2035 over a third of us will be of pensionable age.
With this in mind the RAC Foundation and the Royal Automobile Club commis
Some 351,000 penalty charge notices (PCNs) were issued to road users in London for bus lane infringements in 2016/17.
The analysis - based on data supplied by local authorities to central governmen
The RAC Foundation has voiced its scepticism about the fairness and effectiveness of proposals to raise the level of penalty charges in London from £130 to £160 in an effort to
The RAC Foundation believes there is a future for lane rental schemes after the trials in London and Kent.
In its response to the Department for Transport consultation, the Foundation said "it supp
Half (50%) of Britons are concerned about future driver-assistance technologies taking too much control away from the driver.
This compares with just one in five (20%) who are unconcerned.
The RAC Foundation has welcomed Sadiq Khan's ambitious draft transport strategy but is concerned that the target of dramatically reducing car journeys in the capital will be a "mighty challenge". The
The huge growth in UK van numbers is not being solely driven by people turning to online shopping. While there are now at least 3.7 million vans on the road, fewer than one in twenty-five (4%) are
The arrival of self-driving and connected cars will add weight to the case for improved highway maintenance, not only to tackle the huge backlog, but also to ensure the associated communication and
More than 7 in 10 (71%) British adults aged 16-75 say they have shopped online within the last three months. The average UK household now places around 2.5 online orders per month – the
Three in five drivers would be happy to use a ‘vehicle safe mode’ on their mobile phones and other electronic devices they bring into their car in order to avoid being distracted. The
Twenty-first century car use in Wales is more in keeping with historical experience than the rest of Great Britain according to a new report published today.
Driverless cars are not just part of an imagined future street scene; they exist today. Yet it’s an enormous leap from the prototypes being put through their paces under test conditions to a
Hundreds of thousands of drivers are likely to have been illegally penalised for overstaying their welcome whilst parked on private land. The motorists could be entitled to repayments totalling many
Since the mid-1990s there has been a decline in car use among young adults, especially among young men. This decrease is associated with both a reduction in the proportion of young adults who hold a
Within twenty years there could be another seven million drivers in the UK meaning that, if current trends persist, the total will leap from about 36 million to 43 million.
Since the sharp decrease since the 1990s in car use by young adults, we explore the extent to which similar trends have taken place among pre-driving age young people.
This think piece summarises the findings from a joint seminar held by the RAC Foundation and British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) in July 2012 on alternatives to car ownership
It is sometimes easy to forget just how important road transportation - especially that carried out by car - is to the citizens and commerce of this country.
In 2011, the RAC Foundation commissioned Sally Cairns (TRL & UCL) and Clare Harmer (TRL) to write a report on international examples of alternatives to the most common way of accessing cars
Ever think you are spending more time sitting at the lights? Well you probably are, because the number of sets of traffic lights in Britain jumped by some 30 per cent between 2000 and 2008.
There are already 28 million cars in the UK, the majority of them privately owned. And this number is likely to rise if the population grows as it is projected to.
Some rivalries are enduring. Manchester United fans despise Manchester City fans. Die-hard Labour supporters cannot abide Conservatives. And it seems many car drivers loathe cyclists – a
The car continues to dominate the traveling lives of the British public. Whilst there has been a marked increase in bus use in London, this is the exception.
Earlier this year the RAC Foundation commissioned MRC McLean Hazel to carry out research into the potential of moving towards a more integrated, retail-like system of transport where it is provided
The RAC Foundation has commissioned Professor Joyce Dargay from the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds to analyse the frequency of rail use in Great Britain.
Despite frequent discussions about the significant difference between countries and their transport usage the car remains the dominant method of travel for all nine of the countries assessed in this
In the wake of the extreme cold weather experienced during the winter of 2009/10 the Transport Secretary Lord Adonis asked David Quarmby - chairman of the RAC Foundation - to undertake an independent
In a world where government has very little money and tough spending choices have to be made, it is important that decisions on expenditure should be based on facts and not faith. Choices should be
If there is one topic which has proved more emotive than any other for those members of the public who contact the RAC Foundation, this is probably it.
There have been persistant calls for a car scrappage scheme to operate in the UK, not least to boost the forunes of the car industry and rejuvinate the existing car parc.
We are just as car dependent today as we were in the early 1990s, according to the paper Trends in Modal Shift: An analysis of the British Social Attitudes Survey by David Leibling.