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March 16, 2012
Work is getting underway on a new road link to a busy airport in China’s Hainan Province. The 10km link forms part of the planned 344km West Ring…
March 16, 2012
Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed transport planning specialist Richard Crossley to its expanding Middle East Transportation Team.
March 16, 2012
Econolite and Image Sensing Systems have unveiled Autoscope Duo, a first in a new generation of hybrid sensor technologies. The device converges the…
March 16, 2012
The Hertz Corporation and Hertz Global EV are implementing what is claimed as the first wireless charging system for electric vehicles (EVs) in the…
March 16, 2012
Peek, the Imtech Traffic & Infra mobility specialist, has won a contract to provide a new generation of technology for 365 road junctions in…
March 16, 2012
Machine vision specialist Vitronic and its Estonian partner Alarmtec have won a tender for ten stationary speed enforcement systems from the Estonian…
March 16, 2012
Austrian contractor STRABAG is now commencing construction work on a new bus transport system in Tanzania. The €134 million contract will improve…
March 16, 2012
Serbia has managed to reduce the cost of building the Corridor 10 highway by €80 million. These funds will instead be used to pay for upgrades and…
March 16, 2012
There are questions over the funds available for Slovakia’s Visnove Tunnel project. A former Transport Minister believes that the Transport Ministry…
March 16, 2012
Turnover in Germany’s construction equipment and building material machinery industry rose by 17% in 2011 to US$16.72billion (€12.6billion).
March 16, 2012
Plans are in hand for major upgrades to Russia’s road network. Russian Highways (Avtodor) aims to construct 958km of roads, as well as to reconstruct…
March 16, 2012
Around 9 February, 2012, Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODoT) Office of Innovative Partnerships and Alternative Funding will be issuing a…
March 16, 2012
TomTom has announced a partnership with Delcan Corporation in which historical traffic data will be used for the Strategic Highway Research Program 2…
March 16, 2012
The Sartre (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project, funded by the European Union, has announced that it has successfully completed the first…
March 15, 2012
Ireland's Ministry of Transport is focussing on road maintenance rather than building new links at present.
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