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Chile's Ministry of Public Works (MOP) will re-open highway concessions worth over US$1 billion shortly.

New York Mayor Bloomberg has unveiled a new, technology-based traffic management system that allows city traffic engineers to monitor and respond to Midtown Manhattan traffic conditions in real time, improving traffic flow on the city’s most congested streets.

The southern section of Serbia's Corridor 10 highway is now carrying traffic, with only final works needed to complete the link.

In Bosnia delays have affected the construction work on the country's key Corridor 5c highway project. So far 37km of the 336km Corridor 5c highway has been built, with 21km under construction and a further 43km section being cleared for work to commence.

Drilling work on the Blanka road tunnel in Czech capital Prague has now been completed.

Israel's city of Ashdod will be connected to Highway 6 when a new highway project being planned at present has been completed.

The Nepalese Government is setting out plans for the quality and standards of construction and maintenance of roads and bridges.

India is pushing hard with its highway expansion programme, according to Brijeshwar Singh, chairman of the National Highway Authority India (NHAI).

Plans are in hand in the Ukraine's Crimea area for a new 93km highway.

Work on a new access road to connect the Vietnamese city of Hanoi with the nearby airport is now commencing.

In China, Sichuan Province is placing a high value on road upgrades and improvements.

Work on two sections of Poland's A2 highway originally planned to be built by the Chinese COVEC will now be constructed by two consortia.

Banks funding Italy's new Brescia-Bergamo-Milano (BreBeMi) highway are now giving access to the ?1.91 billion required to complete the work.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing funding worth some US$600 million to Uzbekistan to build a new highway.