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April 26, 2022

Demand for off-road equipment featuring state-of-the-art technologies to fuel rising unit sales to US$481bn this year

According to a new report by Freedonia, investment in new and replacement off-road equipment featuring state-of-the-art technologies will fuel unit sales growth of 5.5% between 2021 and 2022 to $481 billion, slightly above 2019 levels.

A new Freedonia report says demand for off-road equipment featuring state-of-the-art technologies will fuel unit sales growth of 5.5% between 2021 and 2022 to $481 billion, slightly above 2019 levels

April 26, 2022

Vietnam sees a road safety gain

Vietnam is seeing a gain in road safety.

Vietnam has achieved an encouraging improvement in road safety – image courtesy of © Indos82, Dreamstime.com

April 25, 2022

Norway’s many deficient bridges

Norway’s many deficient bridges need repairs.

Many of Norway’s bridges need repairs to ensure safety for users – image courtesy of image courtesy of © Norman Chan, Dreamstime.com

April 25, 2022

Volvo CE sees sluggish growth for Q1

Volvo CE is experiencing sluggish growth for Q1, 2022.

Reduced demand for machines in China has impacted on Volvo CE’s results for Q1, 2022

April 25, 2022

Thailand’s dangerous roads kill

Thailand’s dangerous roads are killers.

Thailand has one of the worst records for road safety of any country in the world - image © courtesy of Mike Woof

April 25, 2022

Scottish trial for OTT HydroMet’s ecoLog 1000

An OTT ecoLog 1000 water level logger with cellular data connection to Hydromet Cloud was trialled upon the Vales Burn Bridge in Scotland.

Installation of an OTT ecoLog 1000 water level logger in a stilling well with cellular data connection to Hydromet Cloud for the Vales Burn bridge trial in Scotland (image courtesy OTT HydroMet/Transport Scotland)

April 25, 2022

Streetlight control with Urban Node 324

Each Urban Node 324 Cellular city streetlight LED luminaire controller includes the Nordic Semiconductor nRF9160 multi-mode NB-IoT/LTE-M System-in-Package (SiP) and plugs into an industry-standard Zhaga LED lighting socket.

The Urban Node 324 Cellular LED lighting controller responds to sudden changes in pedestrian numbers or road traffic and can monitor energy consumption in real-time (image courtesy Urban Control)

April 22, 2022

New Pakistan ring road project

Work is commencing on a new ring road project in Pakistan.

The contract for Rawalpindi’s new ring road has been awarded - image courtesy of © Juan Camilo Bernal, Dreamstime.com

April 22, 2022

Earth Day inauguration for US animal crossing

Construction starts today, Earth Day, on the 67m-long Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing at Liberty Canyon in the US state of California and which will be the biggest in the world .

April 21, 2022

New Paraguay-Argentina bridges discussed

New bridges linking Paraguay and Argentina are being discussed.

New bridges linking Brazil with Paraguay are planned – image © courtesy of Rosevite2000, Dreamstime.com

April 21, 2022

Romania’s Cosmeşti Bridge work underway

The existing Cosmeşti Bridge, which opened in 1924, is a combined road and rail structure.

The lower road section of the existing bridge will be decommissioned and only the upper rail line will remain operational (image © Razvan Nicolescu/Dreamstime)

April 20, 2022

Wejo shows how mobility data saves lives

Wejo is showing how mobility data can help save lives.

The free webinar takes place on 28 April at midday EST / 5pm BST

April 20, 2022

Self driving cars for the UK

Self driving cars will be allowed in the UK

April 20, 2022

Romania retenders Lugoj-Deva section of A1

The Lugoj-Deva segment has been troublesome, with landslides halting work at least twice.

Some sections of Romania’s A1 near the Lugoj – Deva segment are now open (image © Rachitan/Dreamstime)

April 19, 2022

Key African highway concession signed

The concession package has been signed for a key African highway.

The road link between DR Congo and Zambia will be improved – image courtesy of © Peter Hermes Furian, Dreamstime.com

April 19, 2022

Brazilian road works planned

Brazilian road works are being planned.

New road works are planned in Brazil - image courtesy of © Choneschones, Dreamstime

April 19, 2022

Huesker: the case for geosynthetics

Huesker, a global manufacturer of geosynthetics and technical textiles, explains how incorporating geosynthetic material can boost a project’s environmental credentials*.

The Swistbach Bridge in Heimerzheim, Germany, was destroyed by floods in July 2021 (image courtesy Heitkamp BauHolding)

April 19, 2022

Turkish asphalt plant supplied to Denmark

A customer in Denmark is now benefiting from asphalt production technology supplied by Turkish firm E-MAK.

The company, Dansk Støbeastfalt, is based in Ringstead, Denmark and is a subsidiary of the DAB Group, which is headquartered in Gothenburg and is itself part of DAB Holding.

DAB has other asphalt plants located in Kungälv, Sweden and Roskilde, Denmark, both of which focus on producing mastic asphalt and other specialty materials. DAB also owns Spesialdekker, a firm that produces special coatings and is based in Norway.