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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.

For environmental reasons planners decided in favour of the challenging task of constructing a 13-field arched highway bridge over the Oparno Valley in the Bohemian area of the Czech Republic. The 258m bridge, whose reinforced concrete arch has a span of 135m, straddles the valley without any bridge piers, transferring the loads in the form of compressive forces into the foundations.

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

Mobileye's new C2-170, based on the company's vehicle detection and lane detection technologies, can be installed in all types of vehicles. The system consists of a high visibility display unit, EyeWatch1; an audio alert buzzer and a vehicle screen-mounted visual sensor unit.

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).

One of the latest innovations from road safety equipment company Nissen is NiNa (Nissen Navigation) Traffic and NiNa Guard, a combination of sophisticated sensor and a traffic counter which collects data on traffic density and speed. Data collected by the system can then be used to warn oncoming motorists by displaying the traffic information and warning on variable message signs.

The construction project for an industrial park, which includes building the roads linking to the facility, will benefit from the use of a stabiliser from BoMAG.

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).

Tunnels are the highest value assets on a highway, making their operation, safety and maintenance of paramount importance. Patrick Smith reports

Upgrade work to five sections of the D1 highway in the Czech Republic is due to commence in spring 2012.

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.

A report by Frost & Sullivan predicts that the European electric vehicle charging infrastructure market is set to boom.

ROTAFLECTOR fits securely on the top of traffic cones and can replace up to 50% of road danger lamps (every other lamp) in straight line delineation, claims its manufacturer. The wind-driven rotating reflective device has been fully tested at TRL [UK's Transport Research Laboratory] and approved for use on the network by the UK Highways Agency and the Department for Transport. Requiring no batteries, the ROTAFLECTOR is made from recycled materials and is totally recyclable itself.

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.

Accident statistics from Laos and Vietnam reveal a growing awareness of the problems needing attention.

INO, a world-class centre of expertise in industrial applications for optics and photonics, offers its laser rut easurement system (LRMS), a transverse profiling device that detects and characterises pavement rutting. The organisation says LRMS can acquire full 4m width profiles of a highway lane at normal traffic speeds (up to 100km/hr), using two laser profilers that digitise transverse sections of the pavement.