News

Major Danish project for Atkins
March 1, 2012
Engineering firm Atkins is now handling design work on a major highway and bridge project in Denmark.
Read More
Key links for China
March 1, 2012
Construction work is now pushing ahead on key highway connections in China's Shaanxi Province.
Read More
EuroTest surveys Europe's filling stations
March 1, 2012
EuroTest, an international association of 18 European automobile clubs spearheaded by German automobile club ADAC, could not give any station the top rating of very good.
Read More
Brazil's highway development continues
March 1, 2012
Some US$843.6 million is being approved to help finance the road concession Concessionaria Auto Raposo Tavares (Cart) and Ecopistas by Brazil's national development bank BNDES.
Read More
UK government calls satnav summit to tackle mapping problems
March 1, 2012
UK local transport minister, Norman Baker has announced he will host the governments first 'satnav summit' early in March to thrash out solutions to end the misery caused when lorry and car drivers follow out of date directions from their satnavs.
Read More
UK to deploy 3D laser scanning technology for post-crash analysis
March 1, 2012
UK government roads minister Mike Penning yesterday announced the roll-out of 3D laser scanning technology to shorten road closure times after crashes.
Read More
IRD wins nation-wide FHWA contract
March 1, 2012
International Road Dynamics (IRD) has been awarded a contract for "weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems maintenance and data services" by the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
Read More
Beijing to test traffic dispersion by dynamic route guidance
March 1, 2012
Nissan Motor Company and the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport will begin an eight-month large-scale demonstration test in the city's Wangjing district to verify the effects of traffic dispersion by dynamic route guidance with IT devices.
Read More
Slovakia's D1 highway moving ahead
March 1, 2012
Slovakia's Transport Ministry has been working with highway firm NDS on a highway construction programme for the 2011-2014 period.
Read More
Terex Finlay shows new 863 tracked mobile heavy duty screener
March 1, 2012
The new Terex Finlay 863 screener, being shown at INTERMAT 2012, is said to be a highly versatile and adaptable machine engineered and built for working in quarrying, mining, construction and demolition debris, topsoil, recycling, sand, gravel, coal and aggregate applications where site space is at a premium.
Read More
Bentley expanding
March 1, 2012
Software firm Bentley Systems is buying point cloud specialist Pointools.
Read More
GE, Nissan sign R&D agreement to fast track broader adoption of EVs
March 1, 2012
GE and Nissan have signed a two-year research collaboration to speed up the development of a reliable, robust smart charging infrastructure to fuel mass market adoption of electric cars like the Nissan Leaf.
Read More
German company designing Indian road tunnels
March 1, 2012
German consultant Bernard Ingenieure is to work on the design of three major road tunnels in India.
Read More
Britain has over 34 million vehicles on the roads
March 1, 2012
At the end of 2010 there were 34.1 million vehicles licensed for use on the roads in Great Britain of which 28.4 million were cars.
Read More
Major project for Milwaukee
March 1, 2012
In the US city of Milwaukee plans are in hand for a major highway upgrade that is expected to cost US$300 million.
Read More

Highlighted Content