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Austrian contractor Strabag has won a €150 million deal for the construction of new port including road works and infrastructure at Duqm in Oman. The contract will be carried out by Strabag Oman, the Arabian subsidiary of the group.

Cummins and Guangxi LiuGong Machinery have established a joint-venture partnership to manufacture mid-range engines at a new facility. The plant will be built in Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province, in southern China and the assembly of engines from kits will commence in 20120, while full production of engines will start during 2013.

TransCore has today launched ROVR, a GPS device with GSM communications that allows infrastructure-less tolling and includes an optional driver safety monitoring feature shown to dramatically reduce accidents, improve fuel economy, and decrease Greenhouse gases (GHG).

Radar traffic detection and monitoring specialist Wavetronix has announced the selection of SmartSensor HD for an ambitious ITS project in Moscow, Russia. The project seeks to address some of the heaviest traffic congestion in the world, and is one of the largest projects to deploy SmartSensor HD in Wavetronix' 10-year history.To date, 1,241 SmartSensor HD units have been purchased and are being installed along Moscow roads as part of the ITS Moscow project. SmartSensor HD uses true high definition radar to

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the modernisation of the urban roads system in the Macedonian capital Skopje, with a ?5.6 million loan to introduce a modern traffic management system and upgrade one of the key arteries in the city.

The OmniAir Consortium has announced the completion of the development and testing of an Electronic Payment Services National Interoperability Specification (EPSNIS). This is a next generation ETC Services technical standard written by OmniAir's EPS Committee to control a financial transaction network for electronic processing of vehicle transactions.

The latest official data shows a continuing improvement in road safety statistics in both France and the UK. However the data also reveals worrying trends in accidents concerning vulnerable road users.

In Saudi Arabia some 16 road construction deals worth a total of US$ 597.25 million have now been awarded by the Transport Ministry. The projects involve the construction of some 969km of road links in the country.

PIPS Technology has announced it has been instrumental in drafting a new industry standard UTMC (Urban Traffic Management and Control) interface for ANPR systems to overcome difficulties for technology from different systems being able to communicate with each other. For example, PIPS JTMS (Journey Time Measurement System) may not communicate all data to a traffic management system supplied by a third party, because they are designed and built in differing ways, using dissimilar software by different compan

The upcoming Geosynthetics Middle East 2011 event promises to attract a wide array of industry leading attendees. This will be the 4th Geosynthetics Middle East event and will be held in Abu Dhabi City in the United Arab Emirates from 25-26 October.