Clients: Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT), oversees all transport sectors within the United Kingdom via the provision of policy and strategy. The Department liaises with regional and local transport agencies and bodies, as well as private providers, to help ensure the continued provision of an economically viable, environmentally sound and maximally effective transport infrastructure.

Clockwork Research has longstanding ties with the DfT and is regularly called upon to provide expert assistance on road safety issues relating to driver impairment, particularly the impairment resulting from fatigue, drugs and alcohol.

Clockwork has authored or co-authored a number of important reports on these issues.  In 2010 we wrote a report on drug driving in the UK, which formed a key part of the North Review and was praised by international experts as being an authoritative state-of-the-art report on this issue. Subsequently, Clockwork was commissioned to survey HM Coroners in the UK, to assess the potential of using Coroners’ data to inform our understanding of the extent to which drugs impact on road safety.

In 2010 Clockwork also led a consortium which reviewed evidence relating to driver fatigue, which has been used to inform the DfT’s campaigns on fatigue.