23 July 2014
Balfour Beatty wins £129m M3 smart motorway contract in UK
Balfour Beatty has secured a £129m contract to upgrade a 13.4-mile stretch of the M3 through Hampshire and Surrey, UK, to a ‘smart motorway’.
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23 July 2014
TfL to modernise A406 Southend Road in London
Transport for London (TfL) is to perform essential work on the A406 Southend Road in north-east London, UK, in order to maintain and modernise the major roads.
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22 July 2014
Welsh Government seeks contractor to build new motorway in Newport
The Welsh Government has started searching for a contractor to design and build a new 23km motorway in South Wales.
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22 July 2014
Illinois Governor signs $1bn plan for road improvement projects
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed a $1.1bn new state capital construction bill in a move to upgrade the state's infrastructure.
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22 July 2014
Ashghal begins work on Al Rayyan expressway project in Qatar
Qatar public works authority Ashghal has started work on the first two phases of the QAR4.5bn ($1.23bn) Al Rayyan expressway project.
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21 July 2014
Sharjah RTA approves road development work
The Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in the UAE has approved a contract to develop the emirate's infrastructure and control traffic flow.
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21 July 2014
Spanish researchers develop low-cost traffic monitoring software
Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain have developed software that provides real-time traffic data on mobile and web-based devices.
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20 July 2014
Dubai’s RTA begins Sheikh Zayed road diversion works
Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started works on Sheikh Zayed Road, in a move to divert traffic as a part of the water canal project.
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17 July 2014
UK Highways Agency to modernise M18 signalling technology
The UK Highways Agency will install new motorway incident detection and automated signalling (MIDAS) technology on the M18 in South Yorkshire under a £317m pinch point programme.
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17 July 2014
Oman floats tender for $2.6bn Al Batinah Expressway project
The Ministry of Transport and Communications in Oman has floated a tender for Package 7 of the $2.6bn Al Batinah Expressway project.