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At this year’s "Financier of the Year" gala event in Warsaw, Poland, Kapsch was given an award for the efficiency of its fully electronic toll system viaTOLL in bringing in higher revenues than expected last year.

Hyundai has announced details of its Lifetime Hybrid Battery Replacement Guarantee, announced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit earlier this month.

Vaisala, a global leader in environmental management, is launching Condition Patrol with the promise that, for the first time, road maintenance departments now have the ability to access weather data from their entire networks of roads with mobile sensor technology developed by the company.

Activu Corporation, a leading provider of IP-based visualisation and collaboration solutions for mission-critical command and control centre environments, has designed, built, installed and commissioned a turnkey large-scale visualisation system at the statewide transportation operations centre (STOC) in the State of North Carolina’s Joint Forces Headquarters (JFHQ) building in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Streetline has announced that New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDoT) is this week installing the company’s sensor-enabled smart parking system along Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, as part of a Parking Availability Technology pilot.

According to data based on Singapore’s annual road traffic situation report, in 2011 there was an 8.1 per cent year-on-year drop in the number of fatal and injury accidents in Singapore to its lowest level in five years at 7,925 cases.

Swiss company ADEC Technologies has delivered customised software to over 150 TDC3-5 vehicle classifiers that will help the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, to get a grip on its traffic situation.

The US Department of Transportation (USDoT) has announced the availability of version 7.0 of the National Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Architecture that provides a common framework for planning, defining, and integrating ITS deployments.

Indoor exhibit space sales for CONEXPO Russia at CTT 2012 have already exceeded total 2011 sales.

A US$2.07 billion rapid transit system extension has been earmarked for the Taiwanese city of Taichung.

German-based construction equipment manufacturer Wacker Neuson is celebrating record annual revenue and earnings.

The European Commission on Friday issued a contract worth some US$330 million for eight more satellites for its Galileo satellite-navigation network, bringing the total number in production by a German-UK consortium to 22 and keeping the programme on track to be fully operational by the end of the decade.

The American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, a bill introduced in the House by Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica and Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman John J. Duncan, Jr. has been approved.

The authorities in Kazakhstan are budgeting for an increase in infrastructure spending for 2012.

The Spanish Ministry of Works requires further funds to complete work on the 261.5km A-11 Duero Highway.