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Road travel
      Titles Descriptions
  1. AA: Automobile Association
  2. Crashtest .com
  3. DVLA: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
  4. MapQuest: Driving Directions
  5. Maps of Great Britain on the WWW
  6. Road Design
  7. Road Traffic Reports
  8. UK Street Map

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AA: Automobile Association
Road safety and breakdown service for UK motorists. Information about products and services, press releases and specific advice, for example on buying a used car.
     Author: Automobile Association
     Subjects: public safety, road travel
     DeweyClass: 363.125
     Resource type: productinfo
Crashtest .com
Collection of crash-test results for new and used vehicles. Provides information on death rate, head, chest and leg injuries, structure, head restraints, frontal offset, full frontal and side impact collisions, injury claims, collision claims and weight class, before offering an overall safety rating for each model. Safety statistics of two vehicles may be compared.
     Author: Crashtest.com, Inc.
     Subjects: public safety, road travel
     DeweyClass: 363.125
     Resource type: reference data
DVLA: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
An executive agency of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. The primary aims of the DVLA are to aid general law enforcement by maintaining registers of drivers and vehicles, collecting taxation, and assisting in the road safety objectives of the Department. Includes information about vehicle registration, licensing, export and import, personalised registration numbers, and wheel clamping.
     Author: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
     Subjects: road travel, transportation
     DeweyClass: 354.765284
     Resource type: documents
MapQuest: Driving Directions
Provides detailed directions of journeys between any two given destinations in Europe or North America.
     Author: MapQuest.com
     Subjects: british travel and tourism, european travel and tourism, road travel, world travel and tourism
     DeweyClass: 910
     Resource type: guide
Maps of Great Britain on the WWW
A comprehensive interactive atlas of Great Britain. Just enter the name of a British city, town, village or grid reference to get a detailed road map. Default scale is 1:100,000.
     Author: Multi Media Mapping
     Subjects: british travel and tourism, maps of britain, road travel, united kingdom
     DeweyClass: 912.41
     Resource type: map collection
Road Design
Articles providing information on historical road design, traffic analysis, site investigation, pavement design and earthworks, including details of soil properties and the diggability of different materials.
     Author: Durham University
     Subjects: construction, design education, engineering design, road travel
     DeweyClass: 625.7
     Resource type: documents, images
Road Traffic Reports
Provides reports on the latest traffic information in England, via live feeds from various sources including the government's official Highways Agency. Road maps illustrate areas of congested traffic, traffic incidents and roadworks.
     Author: Frixo
     Subjects: road travel, transportation
     DeweyClass: 363.125
     Resource type: service
UK Street Map
Provides street maps for Greater London and road atlas maps for the whole of the UK, based on Bartholomews maps.
     Author: BTex
     Subjects: maps of britain, road travel
     DeweyClass: 912.41
     Resource type: map collection