Highway & Network Management

Engineering firm Atkins is now handling design work on a major highway and bridge project in Denmark.

UK government roads minister Mike Penning yesterday announced the roll-out of 3D laser scanning technology to shorten road closure times after crashes.

International Road Dynamics (IRD) has been awarded a contract for "weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems maintenance and data services" by the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

Nissan Motor Company and the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport will begin an eight-month large-scale demonstration test in the city's Wangjing district to verify the effects of traffic dispersion by dynamic route guidance with IT devices.

In the US city of Milwaukee plans are in hand for a major highway upgrade that is expected to cost US$300 million.

Work will start in the second half of 2011 on a new stretch of Hungary's M3 highway between Vasarosnameny and the number 49 highway.

Vietnam's Thua Thien-Hue Province is investing a healthy US$1.95 billion transportation infrastructure.

A new highway deal looks set to improve connections to the Indian city of Jaipur.

Major cost increases are expected for the 1,250km Autopistas de la Montana highways project in Colombia.

A new tolled highway linking Colombo with Kandy could be built with financial support from Malaysia.