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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).

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).

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.

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.

Official statistics for the Dutch traffic information service VID reveal that congestion in the country dropped by 16.9% in the first four months of 2011 compared with the previous year.

US firm Hill International has been awarded a contract in Afghanistan for a road project

Uruguay needs to spend some US$1.2 billion on its road network so as to meet transport demands.

More than 400tonnes of waste was processed from the event with nearly 307tonnes able to be recycled, for a recovery rate of more than 76%.

Multi-national construction equipment manufacturer Shantui says it is now the world's largest maker of bulldozers, all under its own brand name.

The UK asphalt market increased by over 5% in 2010 but the market has already started to turn lower, claims industry experts BDS Marketing Research, which is forecasting volumes to be around 1% lower in the current year