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PT Rin and Q-Free have signed a contract for delivery of an electronic law enforcement (ELE) system for Jakarta (DKI) and greater area of Jakarta (Bodetabek).

Diesel engine producer Perkins has now opened its research facility, an operation in which the firm has invested some €21.2 million (£19 million).

The US Department of Transportation reports that road deaths fell by 9.7% to 33,808 in 2009, compared with 37,423 in 2008.

Argentina's smart highway network plan, Red Federal de Autopistas en la Argentina (RFA), has still to be implemented.

In Hungary the tender process for the new M3 highway section linking Vasarosnameny and the number 49 highway is to be restarted following an unsuccessful bidding process earlier.

Ghana's infrastructure system is to benefit from a loan worth US$10.4 billion being awarded by the China Exim Bank.

The US has celebrated the bicentennial of its first federally funded road.

A joint project to build a new road link is being set up by the governments of China and Mongolia.

Vietnam's Ministry of Transport has given its approval for the six-lane Thanh Hoa-Ninh Binh highway project, which will follow the PPP model.

A new survey of contractors carrying out transportation projects in the US offers little encouragement for the state of the market at present.

The authorities in Russian city St Petersburg have set a new budget for road repairs and highway upgrades in 2011.