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Romania's long planned highway expansion programme is finally gathering pace. Funding for the projects has been provided but although many feasibility studies had been carried out, little work had been carried out until now.

Plans for work to a 150km section of the Corridor Vc highway in Bosnia will commence in 2012. Construction of 45km of the highway will be financed by the Government of Federal Bosnia, while the remaining 110km is due to be financed by foreign investors. The cost of the project has not been revealed at this stage. The plans were announced by Bosnia’s Ministry of Urban Planning.

The Indonesian Ministry Of Public Works plans to allot US$524.5 million for the upgrade of national roads in capital Jakarta as part of its 2012 budget. The construction of the 16km Tanjong Priok access toll road is one of the key projects, along with the Ciputat-Bogor, Depok-Tangerang and Banten-Gandaria roads. Other projects budgeted are for the maintenance of national roads in Bogor, Bekasi, Jakarta and Banten.

A year since committing to reduce congestion for all in its Traffic Manifesto, TomTom today launches the world's first Traffic Foundation dedicated to fostering collaboration and nurturing talent in the field of traffic management.

A new policy in Russia could change way the country’s road projects are planned. The country’s government is considering life-cycle costing as the model for future road construction projects. Under this proposal, the contractor would be responsible for road maintenance during an agreed period. The state would pay for the road over its life without providing funds immediately after the contract date. The contractor would pays for project design, construction, repair and maintenance from its own funds or attr

The EU Directorate-General for Climate Action has launched a public consultation on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from road transport. It aims at obtaining the views of individuals and organisations on the relevance and impact of the proposed strategy and legislation.

Google has selected Inrix's real-time traffic data to help power its navigation and mapping applications in eight European countries, including the UK and Germany.

IBM and Streetline have announced a parking collaboration for cities. It is claimed that combining information management and advanced analytics from IBM with data gathered from parking sensors and applications from Streetline will allow cities to make smarter and more timely decisions related to parking and their transportation systems.

CS Communication & Systèmes has announced a name change for its Intrans Group business, a specialist in the design, supply and maintenance of high performance toll systems established in the US since 1979, to CS America. From its headquarters in Port Washington, New York, the newly named business will continue to deploy its global strategy to the US market and provide cost effective free flow and all electronic tolling (ETC) systems as well as fully integrated back-office and performing enforcement solution

A new US$743 million road project now looks set to go ahead that will radically improve transport connectivity between Kenya and Ethiopia. The government of the two countries recently agreed a deal to co-develop a network of roads measuring some 880km in all to connect these neighbouring nations. The Mombasa-Nairobi-Addis Ababa link is expected to take three years to construct and will form part of the Trans-African Highway corridor. The project is being financed with a loan from the African Development Ban

Members of the European Parliament have this week proposed over one hundred measures to improve road safety in the European Union. Their key aim is to better protect vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists, children and the elderly.

In collaboration with Systems Metric Group, Delcan has been awarded a contract to develop and implement a regional freeway service patrol (FSP) programme for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

Houston TranStar has received the "2011 Digital Government Achievement Award" from the Center for Digital Government (government-to-government category). The award is for TranStar's cutting-edge Anonymous Wireless Address Matching travel time information system.

The economic recession has only provided a temporary respite from the growing congestion problem, according to Texas Transportation Institute 2011 Urban Mobility Report.While traffic problems have stagnated in the US along with the economy, the annual study suggests that too little progress is being made toward ensuring that the nation's transportation system will be able to keep up with job growth when the economy does return.