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A report by the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety and the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) Foundation found that 1,775 people were killed and 22,807 hurt on British roads last year. The increase has been attributed to the scrapping of casualty reduction targets for local councils and a cut in funding for road infrastructure safety improvements. The report also cited in-car technology, such as satellite navigation systems – sat-navs - and infotainment systems, as a factor

More than 30 nominated companies and individual will be running for the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association’s (ITA) Awards. The awards, to be held in Hagerbach, Switzerland on November 19, consist of nine categories, from ‘Major Project of the Year’ to the ‘Innovation of the year’. Nominee selection was difficult because of the high number of quality applicants – 110 – and impressive projects – 105 – that the judges had to examine. Finally, three to eight nominees were selected

Four construction firms from Canada and one of Belgium’s largest infrastructure companies, 1303 Besix, have committed to building a school each during this year’s 7163 Pilosio Building Peace Award in Milan.

Executives from the companies, along with those from several other property related businesses, accepted a challenge from the event’s guest of honour, US actress Sharon Stone: “Is anyone out there going to build me a schoo1?”

Significant gains in the cost of construction of the highway link between Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and the country’s commercial centre, Amsterdam. The highway links Schiphol with Amsterdam as well as Almere and is being upgraded to increase its capacity as it suffers from heavy congestion and long delays at peak periods. The cost of this work is expected to be some €300 million more than was originally expected due to technical challenges that were unforeseen when the project commenced. The total

Indonesia’s Ministry of Public Works and Housing plans to allocate US$415.3 million in 2016 for the Trans Papua road project. The Indonesian Government’s plan is for the link to be ready for use and connecting the whole of Papua by 2019. However in excess of $830 million is required to fund work on the entire 4,325km route. Over 10km of bridges still remain to be constructed along with 827km of roads. Meanwhile of the existing 3,498km of road, only 2,075km are surfaced with asphalt at present while 1,423km

MISK wins tender for Moscow’s Yuzhnaya Rokada road The Moscow Engineering and Construction Company (MISK) has won the tender for construction of the second section of Moscow’s Southern lateral highway. MISK was the only contractors tendering for the contract, worth nearly US$74.3 million, for the section called Yuzhnaya Rokada. Details include construction of 5km of road, essential side lanes, more than 300m of overpasses and turnoffs. Work is expected to take nearly 20 months. The tender win co

The Portuguese road operator Infraestruturas de Portugal is to tender a €13 million contract for refurbishment of the international bridge over the Guadiana river, connecting Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal and Ayamonte in Spain. The work will take 18 months and the cost will be shared by both countries, a report in Diário Económico said. Around 80% of the river is in Portugal. The river flows east to west through Spain, then south through Portugal, then forming the Spanish-Portuguese border

The Swiss government has created a fund for street and urban transport works to help ease what it says will be a deficit of around €1.26 billion each year up to by 2030. The fund will be created from a rise in road fuel tax from €0.27 to €0.33. Added money will come from a tax on electric vehicles due to start in 2020 and which will raise around €84 million a year, rising to around €275 million. The road maintenance fund also will receive around €366 million from taxes on imported cars and €320 mil