Highway & Network Management

April 12, 2012
Oliver Carsten, Professor of Transport Safety at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at the University of Leeds, UK, discusses Intelligent…
April 12, 2012
GTZ highlights a pioneering scheme illustrating the potential of Bus Rapid Transit systems as a viable approach to alleviate the traffic and social…
April 12, 2012
Following a government decision, a new model for the management and financing of the road infrastructures sector was defined in 2007 and is now being…
April 12, 2012
New trials pave the way for smart road pricing using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). In recent years, the concept of road charging has…
April 12, 2012
The Portuguese experience with road safety has proved that planning, development, introduction, and hard work do pay off in the end. Paulo Marques…
April 12, 2012
Twenty years ago Portugal was bottom of the European league in terms of roads and safety. A series of ambitious plans has seen the country rise to…
April 12, 2012
IRF BPC bringing GNSS-based road pricing a step closer to maturity. Today, road transport faces major challenges such as the ever-increasing need for…
April 12, 2012
The future financing of the European road network has again become a hot topic in Brussels On 15 October, 2010 in the Belgian capital, the Council of…
April 11, 2012
In this second of a two-part article, Jack Opiola, demonstrates that the imposition of a government provided GPS mandate to levy mileage tax could be…
April 11, 2012
The National Roads Authority (NRA) in Ireland has announced it will expand its journey time system by expanding deployment of ANPR cameras from 80 to…
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