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.
The Marangoni Group has announced it will invest €8 million to modernise its plant in the northern Italian city of Rovereto, near Trentino.
The upgrade includes the latest generation of Banbury mixer capable of meeting demand for increasingly sophisticated and high-performance compounds. The mixer, to be in operation by the end of the year, will improve the quality of earthmoving tread compounds, making them more competitive for heavy-duty applications.
Another important investment made in recent mont
Siemens is supplying an intelligent transportation system for the Polish city of Poznan after winning a near-€15 million contract from the Poznan transportation authority ZDM (Zarzad Dróg Miejskich w Poznaniu).
Real-time traffic data from more than 200 measurement points, such as intersections, parking lots and public transport, will be collected in the city’s traffic management centre, evaluated and processed using Sitraffic Concert.
The Siemens system, set to be commissioned in spring 2015, will pr
Danish traffic experts are urging politicians in Copenhagen to opt for road pricing instead of the planned ring road. They point out that GPS-based road pricing is more cost efficient than a ring road, and can be introduced in just three to five years.
Ethiopia is pursuing a 10-year $2.4 billion development plan, part of which are ambitious road developments. Shem Oirere reports Ethiopia is hastening its pace towards accessing a share of the East Africa commodity market and opening itself up for foreign investment through the implementation of an ambitious road development strategy, the Road Sector Development Programme (RSDP). The landlocked nation has convinced a number of international lenders of the viability of RSDP, with some of them now loosening
