Network road pricing is inevitable to manage increasing congestion on city motorways and to facilitate more efficient transport networks, says 891 Transurban chief executive Scott Charlton.
Gantries first appeared over highways in the late 1960s and are now of increased importance, thanks to the emergence of Smart Motorways, writes Simon Benfield* The motorway network exhibits a timeline of innovation; lane control signals on highways appeared in the 1970s
North American design company Stantec has signed a letter of intent to acquire Lexington, Kentucky, USA-based ENTRAN, a 115-person transportation consulting company that also has offices in Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Charleston, West Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; and Nashville, Tennessee.Stantec anticipates the close of the transaction in October, 2011.
Highway organisations around the world will need ever-more sophisticated frameworks to ensure their asset management is up-to-date and fit-for-purpose.
Jacques Tavernier, chairman of PPRS Nice 2018, and Claude van Rooten, president of PIARC, the World Road Association emphasised the point at at this week’s Pavement Preservations and Recycling Summit.
A nation’s roads are its first and most important “main asset … essential for a country’s economic, social and environmental development”, said van Roote
