Awareness is on the up and product development is on fast forward but the UK still has a long way to go to catch up with the Scandinavians and the Americans. Emma Clarke reports on how the key players in the passive revolution are working to get the message out. The passive revolution is here. Step back only three years and few would have heard of passive safety and the concept of engineering roadsides to reduce the risk of injury in single-vehicle collisions. But thanks to events such as Mott MacDonald's passive safety seminar in London, and a Highways Agency (HA) Technical Advice Note, passively safe sign posts, traffic signal poles and lighting columns are becoming an increasingly familiar sight along the UK's high speed roads.
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