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March 27, 2014
A new hitch-hiking function has been added to the speed-check warning application belonging to the Polish firm Yanosik. Potential hitch-hikers log…
March 27, 2014
Qatar is preparing to launch a variety of road, bridge and other infrastructure development projects worth US$65 billion. The President of the…
March 27, 2014
The ‘Drug, Alcohol and Speed’ Commission at the influential Conseil National de la Sécurité Routière (CNSR) in France were expected to recommend…
March 27, 2014
Belgium’s €577.9 million A11 motorway Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project has become the first greenfield infrastructure works to receive credit…
March 25, 2014
Bouygues Construction of France and Lend Lease Group (Lend Lease) of Australia have become preferred tenderer to design and build the US$2.71 billion…
March 25, 2014
TISPOL general secretary Ian Hamill has died. A spokesperson for the European traffic police network organisation said that Hamill died suddenly in…
March 24, 2014
The Spanish government may launch a state-owned motorway operator as part of a plan to solve the economic difficulties that nine operators are…
March 24, 2014
The Canadian province of Saskatchewan has set one of the biggest highways budgets in its history for the 2014 fiscal year. The budget of US$591.11…
March 24, 2014
The Estonian government is said to have channelled only half of fuel excise revenues into highway construction and maintenance works – despite…
March 24, 2014
Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG) has been awarded a US$1.7 billion contract to design and build a new orbital highway and truck route near Doha. Under…
March 24, 2014
Work on the new 218.5-kilometre Mianyang-Jiuzhaigou Expressway in Sichuan province, China is expected to begin later this year. Upon completion of…
March 24, 2014
Work has begun on Section II of Indonesia’s Cinere-Jagorawi Toll Road. The 5.5km route is costing US$210.25 million (IDR 2.4 trillion) and Section II…
March 24, 2014
Brazil's São Paulo state is due to call a tender by March 28 2014 to concession its Tamoios highway, a government official is reported to have told…
March 21, 2014
The Ministry of Transport and Public Works in Ecuador (MTOP) has announced that a Chinese loan of US$367 million will fund the restoration of the…
March 21, 2014
The best option for a bridge or tunnel to connect the Taman Peninsula in Russia with the Crimea Peninsula across the Kerch Strait will be chosen by…
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