Transport security
Creating safe transport networks, criminal record checks, regulations for transport employees.
Services
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Apply to the Rental Vehicle Security Scheme
Form and guidance to apply to join the Rental Vehicle Security Scheme.
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Protective transport personnel security regulation: appointment of a counter-signatory
Application form for a governing body to pass responsibility for managing national security vetting applications to a contractor.
Guidance and regulation
- National Vehicle Threat Mitigation Unit
- Security guidance for goods vehicle operators and drivers
- Vehicle security barriers within the streetscape (TAL 01/11)
- National security vetting in the regulated transport industry
- Influence of bollards on pedestrian evacuation flow (TAL 01/16)
News and communications
- £1.02 million research funding awarded for robotic chemist project
- Union connectivity review: final report
- New guidance published to prevent use of vehicles as weapons in terror attacks
- Funding for new checks on animal products creates 500 jobs
- Drone deliveries and seamless end-to-end journey routing could connect UK’s rural towns and communities
Research and statistics
- Future of Transport: data standards scoping study
- Connected vehicle data research
- British social attitudes survey: 2016
- British social attitudes survey: 2015
- How bollards affect crowd movement
Policy papers and consultations
- Transportable pressure equipment: conformity assessment and marking requirements in Great Britain
- Non-Statutory Instrument secondary legislation: Commissioners Directions under section 35(1) and section 64(2)(b) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979
- DfT's partnership with the overseas territories
- Government response to the Transport Select Committee's preliminary report on UK transport security