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ORR holds National Highways to account to meet its target of a 67% reduction in corporate carbon emissions by 2025 compared to 2017-18 levels.

As National Highways’ monitor, ORR holds the company to account for delivering the targets set out in the second road investment strategy (RIS2). This includes its key performance indicator target on safety to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) on the strategic road network (SRN) by 50% by the end of 2025, compared to the 2005-2009 average baseline.

Railway signalling systems are fundamental to the safe and efficient operation of modern railways.

Good stakeholder engagement - the practice of talking to, listening to, and working with those involved in, or affected by, an organisation's activities - is essential, especially for an organisation like Network Rail which is tasked with maintaining Britain's railways infrastructure.

Today, we’ve published our April 2022 to March 2023 Annual Efficiency and Finance Assessment of Network Rail.

After the success of the first ORR Internship programme last year, this summer, ORR expanded the scheme to welcome seven interns to the organisation.

Ian Prosser focuses on areas he wants to see the industry focus on in his final year as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Railways

An estimated 187,000 people in England live in noise important areas with respect to road noise, with millions more affected.

Like many other female engineers, at university, I was one of six women in a class with 50 men for my degree in Civil and Structural Engineering in Hong Kong.

Biodiversity is defined as the variety of all animal and plant life on earth. It has a vital role in sustaining our natural environment – from providing the air we breathe, to absorbing carbon and underpinning the food chain.