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The International Transport Forum at the OECD, an intergovernmental organisation for the transport sector that comprises 52 countries, has announced the winner of its 2011 Young Researcher of the Year Award.

The latest available data regarding the European construction equipment market suggests that the machinery market is improving.

The severe risk of working in Afghanistan was highlighted when Taliban insurgents attacked a road construction firm in Paktia Province.

A series of key technical innovations are now coming to market that will help boost performance for future electric vehicles.

Work is progressing on the 180km National Highway 18 project in India linking Kurnool and Kadapa.

A new bridge in Ecuador will improve transport connections in the country.

A US$104 million road project that will improve cross-border links in Southern Africa is now getting underway thanks to a loan from the African Development Bank (ADB).

The UN Road Safety Collaboration has used support from the World Health Organisation in its development of a Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 (DARS).

The authorities in Phnom Penh plan to handle the city's endemic congestion problems.

The complex legal tangle over Poland's troubled A2 highway project is continuing to develop.

Uzbekistan's highway network is benefiting from considerable investment at present.

Swedish engineering consultancy Sweco will design a new connecting road between Malmö and the Port of Helsingborg.