Skip to main content
TyreMap Editorial Team

TyreMap Editorial Team

Editorial Team

Editorial review Source verification Fact checking Regulatory updates

About

The TyreMap editorial team is responsible for keeping the 3,000+ pages on this site verified, current, and consistent with official sources.

What we verify

  • LEZ rules — cross-checked against the EU-supported urbanaccessregulations.eu registry and the relevant city authority site (Berlin Senate, Mairie de Paris, Comune di Milano, TfL, etc.).
  • Speed limits & fines — verified against each country’s national transport ministry or equivalent (e.g. Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr, Direction de la sécurité et de la circulation routières, ANAS, DVSA).
  • Tyre laws — verified against national legislation indices and ETRTO publications.
  • Country-level driving regulations — cross-referenced with embassy travel advisories, AA / RAC guidance, and primary law texts.

Update cadence

  • Pages are re-checked against official sources on a rolling schedule. High-traffic pages and fast-changing rules (fines, emission-zone rules, winter-tyre dates) come first, so some low-traffic pages go longer between checks.
  • A page is re-checked when a reader reports an error or a law change affecting it becomes known.
  • Regulatory pages show the date they were last checked against official sources near the top of the page.

Editorial process

  1. Source acquisition — official government text or registry record.
  2. Cross-check — at least one independent source (national auto club, official travel advice, urbanaccessregulations.eu).
  3. Original-language check — non-English laws and city notices are read in their original text, not only in a summary.
  4. Sources on the page — each emission-zone page links its official source, and the country driving guides and tyre-law pages end with a list of official sources.

Editorial principles

  • Official sources first: when sources disagree, the government or city publication wins over motoring clubs, and motoring clubs over encyclopaedias.
  • Date-stamped: regulatory pages show the date they were last checked, not only a “published” date.
  • No regulatory guessing: where a country lacks public documentation, the page says so explicitly rather than fabricating values.
  • Year-current: regulations from prior years are kept as historical context only when relevant; the headline rule is always the current one.

Areas of focus

  • Low Emission Zones (LEZ/ZFE/Umweltzone/ZTL/CAZ/ULEZ) across Europe — 596 zone records, 396 of them in force
  • Tyre regulations — winter requirements, tread depth, snow chains, studded tyres
  • Driving rules per country — speed limits, alcohol limits, IDP requirements, equipment laws
  • Road safety policy trends across the EU and worldwide

Contact

Contact: editorial@tyremap.com