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June 21, 2013
Ecuador’s shocking high road fatality rate is giving cause for concern. Official statistics compiled by the World Health Organisation (WHO) suggest…
June 21, 2013
Chinese firms Geely Automotive and Kandi have jointly developed an all-electric vehicle. The JL7001BEV model has won official approval from China’s…
June 21, 2013
Portuguese construction company Teixeira Duarte has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Venezuela Government formalising the commitment to…
June 20, 2013
Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) Government has outlined its massive transportation investment in the WestConnex project. This will be the largest…
June 20, 2013
Merseylink was today announced as the preferred bidder for the US$3.12 billion (£2bn) Mersey Gateway Project in North West England. Making the…
June 19, 2013
Some US$15.6 million in federal emergency funds is being made available to Washington State to help repair the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit…
June 19, 2013
The AXA RoadSafe report shows that although there has been a reduction in the number of children involved in road accidents in the UK in recent years…
June 19, 2013
The Hungarian national infrastructure development firm NIF has announced that work on a new stretch of the M44 motorway between Kondoros and…
June 19, 2013
A report by the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) claims that rumble strips on Swedish roads have reduced the number of…
June 19, 2013
The Israeli Government is working on plans to ease traffic flow between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Improvements are being made to two roads, Highway 443…
June 19, 2013
Israeli firm Solel Boneh has won a major contract in Nigeria to rebuild and widen the highway connecting Lagos with Ibadan. The US$580 million deal…
June 19, 2013
AECOM Technology Corporation is working on a US$148 million contract for a section of the Doha Expressway project in Qatar. The three year contract…
June 18, 2013
With its new cab and single-piece bonnet, the new JCB 417 HT compact wheeled loader certainly looks different to the JCB 416 that it replaces. But…
June 18, 2013
A steady reduction in road crashes and fatalities has been noted for key developed nations, according to the International Transport Forum (ITF) Road…
June 18, 2013
The crawler excavator operator in this incident had a close call when the bridge being demolished collapsed unexpectedly. The accident happened in…
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