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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.

Work to construct a new stretch of Hungary’s M43 highway, linking Mako and Csanadpalota/Nagylak on the Romanian border, is costing some €212 million. The cost of the work is being split 39% and 61% by Hungarian state funds and EU funding respectively. Construction work on the 23km long section will be completed by the end of 2014. The project has to be approved by the European Commission (EC), as it will form part of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). Plans are to be submitted to the EU by the Hu

Consultant Mott MacDonald will carry out transportation planning for the development a new highway transport plan for the city of Jos in Nigeria's Plateau State.