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Magnetic filtration units increase efficiency

April 5, 2012

One of the USA’s largest and best-known dealers for Caterpillar off-road vehicles, Whayne Supply, has teamed up with a small UK engineering company, Magnom, to introduce magnetic filtration units that have been shown to increase operational efficiency and decrease downtime.

Investment in bitumen facilities

April 5, 2012

Earlier this year Shell Australia unveiled two major investments in bitumen facilities to help meet demand across eastern Australia.

ITS JPO Releases Turbo Architecture Version 7.0

April 5, 2012

The US Department of Transportation's ITS Joint Program Office has announced the latest update to Turbo Architecture 7.0, a software application that supports development of regional and project ITS architectures using the National ITS Architecture as a reference. Turbo Architecture is heavily utilised by transportation system professionals in both the public and private sectors to document the inventory and interfaces for regional and project ITS architectures.

India plans major infrastucture investment

April 5, 2012

India says it turned its Commonwealth Games into a world-class success, and now it aims to do the same with its infrastructure. Patrick Smith reports On October, 2010 India put itself on the world stage, and disaster appeared to loom as a catalogue of problems dogged its biggest ever sporting event. Costing nearly US$2 billion to stage, the most expensive Commonwealth Games ever were, according to some, in doubt. After years of planning some projects were incomplete, there were health scares and a br

Construction equipment sells well in China

April 5, 2012

Century deal for Volvo CE Volvo Construction Equipment sold 100 heavy excavators to mining, highway and real estate company Tang Sunrise Investment during its sales promotion in the Chinese city of Fuquing.

Measuring durability of Australia's roads

April 5, 2012

The Danish Road Directorate has signed a contract with the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland regarding the measurements of more than 16,000km of roads.

Caterpillar's new buckets

April 5, 2012

Caterpillar Work Tools is introducing a new line of pin-on and coupler buckets for its 374D and 390D hydraulic excavators, featuring improved designs to take advantage of increased machine performance.

A new joint transport agreement has been struck by Afghanistan, Iran and Takijistan

April 4, 2012

An agreement between the political leaders of Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan will boost transport connectivity between these nations. The agreement is for joint development of road and railway projects that will link the three countries. Details of the transport projects have not yet been revealed. Other aspects of the agreement relate to cross-border distribution of electricity as well as gas and oil pipelines.

Silk Road: 'viable alternative'

April 4, 2012

The final results of the International Road Transport Union's (IRU) New Eurasian Land Transport Initiative (NELTI)-Phase 2 have confirmed road trade links between Europe and Asia as an economically-attractive and viable alternative to traditional, saturated maritime trading routes. This was unveiled at the recent 6th IRU Euro-Asian Road Transport Conference and Ministerial Meeting held in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, which concluded that removing the remaining procedural impediments at borders and deve

$2.5bn plus investment in Canadian highway projects

April 4, 2012

Contracts worth a combined value of more than US$2.5billion have been awarded for two major Canadian highway construction projects. Spanish building firm, ACS, has been awarded a US$1.52billion contract to construct a new 27km eight-lane motorway. The contract also includes the operating of the road for 30 years. Meanwhile another Spanish construction firm, Ferrovial, working in association with SNC Lavalin, has been awarded the around US$1billion contract for the 20km extension of the Toronto 407 motorway