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New guidance from the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will pave the way for the increased use of innovative technologies in the country's highway network. This follows a clarification of procurement guidance issued by the FHWA.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has announced that the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDoT) and Fluor-Transurban have come to a non-binding, in-principle agreement on the major commercial terms to build the I-95 high occupancy vehicle/high occupancy toll (HOV/HOT) lanes project in Northern Virginia.

TransCore wins White Plains adaptive signal control system contract. The city of White Plains in New York is deploying a new SCATS-based adaptive traffic signal control system from TransCore that will collect real-time information and then adjust signal timing parameters on a cycle-by-cycle basis on one of the city's major arterials.

Last week, the Flemish press witnessed a demonstration in Lommel, Belgium, presenting how Traficon technology can collaborate with so-called smart vehicles. The demonstration was part of the Vision project of Flanders’ Drive, the research centre for the automotive industry, which collaborates with a consortium of companies to research and test vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. In the successful demonstration a Traficon C-Walk pedestrian detector was combined with a smart vehicle, which was equipped w

In Indonesia plans are well in hand for the development of the new Pekanbaru-Dumai toll road project. The 134km road will cost US$896 million to construct and will be carried out under the PPP model. Agreements have been sealed to start work on freeing the land needed for the project. The land compensation process is due for completion by December 2011.

According to a new report from Pike Research, ITS will see increased investment in coming years even as government budgets are tightening, because smart transport is seen as a way to maximise existing transportation systems without making major new capital investments.

The US-based Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) is looking to boost membership worldwide. This non-profit organisation has over 4,300 members across the globe and is the only such body dedicated to preserving the history of the construction, dredging and surface mining equipment industries. The HCEA has already ensured that countless historic construction equipment has been preserved in museums, providing public education on the importance of these machines for the establishment of infrast

In Qatar the Government intends to invest a healthy US$12.36 billion on upgrading and expanding the country's road network. This budget will be for the 2011-2015 period.

Exhibitor registration now open for the next bC India event. Applications for exhibit space are now being accepted for companies wishing to exhibit at the second edition of bC India. This takes place February 5-8, 2013 at the MMRDA grounds in the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai. The closing date for priority applications is March 15, 2012. Scheduled to cover 130,000m2 of exhibition space, this second bC India is taking up almost 50% more space than at the premiere in 2011.

Plans for a €325million (US$423.76million) fixed transport link project in Estonia will be presented to the country’s Government in early 2012, according to a senior road planning official.

Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has agreed to provide a loan of AED183.50million (US$49.95million) for the construction of the Tirana-Elbasan road project. The completed works will shorten travelling time between both cities contributing to Albania's economic growth through the support of domestic trade exchange.

Spanish multi-national Indra has announced it is implementing the latest urban traffic control technology in four cities in China - Changde, Guilin, Korla (Bazhou) and Liaocheng - all of them in China, for some US$18 million. The projects include the design, development, implementation and start-up of the traffic control centres in each city. These will be equipped with smart traffic monitoring, signalling and traffic lights; closed circuit TV surveillance, speed control, traffic violation or user informat

ITS America has announced it is now accepting submissions for papers and presentations for consideration for its 22nd Annual Meeting & Exposition, “Smart Transportation: A Future We Can Afford.” The three-day event will be held from 21-23, May, 2012, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD, just outside Washington, DC.

Financing worth a total of US$170 million will help fund construction of Mongolia's Western Regional Road Corridor. This will be provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in a series of payments.

Road safety is expected to improve with the opening of the new Route 7 highway in Kosovo. Complete accident details were not available for 2011 but there were 94 fatal accidents and 168 killed on Kosovo's roads between January and September 2011, an increase of 8% over the previous year.