EuroTest, an international association of 18 European automobile clubs spearheaded by German automobile club ADAC, could not give any station the top rating of very good.
Some US$843.6 million is being approved to help finance the road concession Concessionaria Auto Raposo Tavares (Cart) and Ecopistas by Brazil's national development bank BNDES.
UK local transport minister, Norman Baker has announced he will host the governments first 'satnav summit' early in March to thrash out solutions to end the misery caused when lorry and car drivers follow out of date directions from their satnavs.
International Road Dynamics (IRD) has been awarded a contract for "weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems maintenance and data services" by the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
Nissan Motor Company and the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport will begin an eight-month large-scale demonstration test in the city's Wangjing district to verify the effects of traffic dispersion by dynamic route guidance with IT devices.
GE and Nissan have signed a two-year research collaboration to speed up the development of a reliable, robust smart charging infrastructure to fuel mass market adoption of electric cars like the Nissan Leaf.