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A major road funding package has been secured for Bangladesh.

As part of its recent £10 million expansion, paving and walling manufacturer, Tobermore, has recently in a new Rapid concrete batching plant. The new Rapid plant will allow a further one million m2 of block paving/year

Chromasens said the 3DPIXA Rl 3D automatically detects potholes and cracks.

There is concern over a worrying trend in US road safety, while there have been steady gains in road safety in Europe

Versilis has partnered with Haas Alert to offer motorists Safety Cloud, an infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) solution that sends notifications of road layout changes and lane closures

For the HI-TRAC CMU bicycle detection solution, in-road piezo-electric sensors are located around 25m away from every road leading to a major junction.

A road tunnel stretch that opened for traffic in India in late 2020 is notable for several reasons. The new 9km Atal Tunnel is the world’s longest tunnel at an altitude of higher than 3,048m

Wacker Neuson is now offering improved dumpers in the shape of its latest DW60 and DW90 models.

A new steel bridge is being planned for Bangladesh.

Volvo CE’s off-highway articulated hauler business Terex Trucks has rebranded as Rokbak.

The US-based companies will forge ahead together with more streetlighting and streetlight pole offerings to enable smart city development.

Suneeta Johal takes over on October 4 from Rob Oliver who will retire.

Bomag launches its new BM/65 series of cold planers in early September 2021. With a CECE operating weight of only 27 tonnes, the BM 2000/65 is the lightest planer currently available in the 2-metre class. Its low weight achieved by the special lightweight design and the shorter conveyor belt now make the planers even more flexible to use. When it comes to efficiency, ease of operation and work safety, the new generation of planers features numerous innovative details

Congo has sourced a loan for key road works.

Strassmayr’s latest Blow Patcher, the STP 1010 Joy, allows the vehicle driver to make road surface reparations using only a joystick located within the cab of the truck.

Nexar’s CityStream platform allows road agencies to see the layout of work zones any time.

Sales in the first seven months of 2021 were 66 per cent up on 2020 levels to over 22,000 units.

One of the challenges facing transportation agencies today is how to conduct accurate, timely, and safe bridge inspections. Maintaining bridges is important to ensure public safety, and bridge owners and engineers need to perform regular inspections to determine the structural integrity of bridges so that they can plan for maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement of those bridges.

During the summer in northern Germany, there was a special challenge for a Dynapac SD1800C City Class Paver. At first, the task appeared to be quite easy: a local park needed to be refreshed with new asphalt bicycle lines and foot walks – a perfect job for a machine of a size of just 1.8m in tractor width and a screed hydraulically extendable to 3.5m.

Work is now well underway on a key highway project in Cameroon.