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The Swedish Road Administration (Transportstyrelsen) has extended the contract, announced on 27 October, 2010, appointing Q-Free to service and maintain the congestion charging infrastructure in Stockholm which was delivered by Q-Free in 2006.

The city of Sausalito, California, has deployed Streetline's smart parking platform, including its free smartphone app, Parker, giving the city's residents and visitors real-time insight for finding open parking spaces in this picturesque waterfront community.Available for iPhone, Android or compatible tablet, users see an instant map showing real-time availability of 530+ spaces along local streets and in parking lots, with icons noting more than four spaces available (plenty of parking available), more th

HTS (Hi-Tech Solutions), a specialist in the optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision systems market, has established a wholly-owned US subsidiary, HTS Americas, based in New York, and named John Whiteman as its CEO.

Astec Industries is setting up Astec Mobile Machinery, which will be based at Hameln in Germany. The new facility will help the firm's international growth, particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia where the firm already has a strong sales presence and where road construction is strong at present.

Mexico's Government is launching the tender process for maintenance works to 734km of roads in the states of Mexico and Michoacan. The deal will be for a seven year period and this is the third of 43 tenders being launched by the Secretary of Transport and Communications (SCT)

Russia's state-owned company Avtodor has approved a massive new road development programme that stretches to 2019. The firm plans to build over 1,900km of roads, of which 1,200km will be tolled. Avtodor expects that its income will reach US$2.92 billion from the tolled roads. The investment programme will be jointly funded by state and private sources.

In Slovakia the new government is pledging to speed up the country’s highway construction programme. Suggested policies include a re-introduction of land expropriation. The Slovakian government's current priority is to complete the Bratislava - Kosice highway. The use of EU funds does not look likely for the project and instead, the PPP structure will probably be used to finance the work.

Sandvik Mining and Construction has bought Shanghai Jianshe Luqiao Machinery Co (SJL), a major Chinese manufacturer of crushing and screening equipment, which sells its products under the SHANBAO brand.

The Spanish construction firm ACS is tendering for the construction and operation of four bridges in the US. The firm is tendering in partnership with some other US and international firms for some of the projects, which are worth a total of US$11.4 billion. The Tappan Zee project is expected to cost $5 billion and the deal will be for a design and construction contract. The bridge will be located in New York, is being developed by New York State Thruway Authority and will require two, four-carriageway brid

A dramatic fall in traffic accidents last week has been directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerry services, according to an article in The National, the English language newspaper published by Abu Dhabi Media.In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from average rates on the days BlackBerry users were unable to use its messaging service.