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IRF NewsFlash

August 5, 2009

IRF Annual Awards Banquet

Every year IRF recognizes the organizations, projects, and people that place this industry at the forefront of social and economic development. The IRF Annual Awards Banquet is a premiere road industry event which allows the world at large to focus on the tremendous contributions the road industry makes to the global quality of life.

View a video presentation of the IRF Annual Awards Banquet

In This Issue

IRF News

• IRF Upcoming Events

Industry News

• Road Safety
• Intelligent Transportation
• Road Financing
• Environment

IRF Upcoming Events

• Preserving our Highway Infrastructure Assets
  August 4 - 7, 2009
  Orlando, Florida
• IRF Supported Event - 15th Argentine Congress on Safety and Transportation
  September 14-18, 2009
  Mar del Plata, Argentina
• IRF seminar on Road Safety and PPP
  October 12-13, 2009
  Cairo, Egypt
• 4th Regional IRF Conference on Road Safety
  October 23-24, 2009
  New Delhi, India
• 14th Annual IRF Executive Seminar on Contract Maintenance
  October 25 - November 3, 2009
  Orlando, Florida
• gTKP/IRF/TARA Conference on Rural Roads
  November 25-27, 2009
  Tanzania
• IRF World Road Meeting 2010
  May 25 - 28, 2010
  Lisbon, Portugal
  
  

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Industry News

Road Safety

July 30, 2009

• Missouri Revises Helmet Law
• North Carolina Lawmakers Consider Doing Away With Vehicle Inspections
• Mechanics, Law Enforcement Claim Eliminating N.C. Car Inspections is Short Sighted
• Britain's top traffic policeman, calls for drink drive limit to be cut

July 31, 2009

• Motorcycle Crash Accidents and California Helmet Law
• Speed cameras will increase road safety
• Crashes Spur Talk, But Road Threat Remains
• Missouri Revises Helmet Law

August 3, 2009

• More Than $29 Million Awarded Fo NC Road Projects
• A bridge too far for city's pedestrians

August 5, 2009

• Higher speed limits cost lives
• Police Traffic Division increase efforts to educate Grand Bahama public on road safety

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Intelligent Transportation

July 30, 2009

• Comtrol Corporation serial device servers get NEMA TS2 certification
• Aging Infrastructure is Killing Competitiveness in United States
• Governor Issues Executive Directive to Help Michigan Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 20 Percent by 2020, 80 Percent by 2050

July 31, 2009

• Green Environment and Intelligent Transportation Systems: Assessment Technologies and Markets

August 3, 2009

• Hardened IP switches

August 5, 2009

• Digital Video Transceiver Uses 10bit/20MHz Sampling Technology
• Johnson City has used about $4M in stimulus funds so far

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Road Financing

July 30, 2009

• Senators Seek a Ban on Texting and Driving
• Kuwait eyes partners for $5 billion transport projects

July 31, 2009

• Measure Proposes States Ban Texting While Driving--Or Lose Highway Funding
• Transportation infrastructure: House signs off on funding transfer for Highway Trust Fund

August 3, 2009

• Gas tax take falls short of forecast
• Toll Goes Up on West Virginia Turnpike
• Arkansas panel looks at solutions to road funding crisis
• Baucus Applauds Senate Passage of UI, Highway Funding
• Oberstar Proposes New Fees

August 5, 2009

• K450m used on road projects
• $1 Billion-Plus Transit Deals Dominate Week's Muni Offerings

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Environment

July 30, 2009

• Governor Issues Executive Directive to Help Michigan Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 20 Percent by 2020, 80 Percent by 2050
• University of South Florida students share hybrids
• Kansas needs to address deadly habit of text messaging while driving
• Kuwait eyes partners for $5 billion transport projects
• Opinion: Is high-speed rail a good public investment?

July 31, 2009

• Earthtoys - Cenex Announces Department For Transport Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Grant Programme As Open Fo
• Letter to the Editor: Tax interstate telecommuters fairly
• Bond Secures $38 Million for Missouri Projects Senator Works to Fund Critical Transportation, Housing, Health & Education Projects
• Specter, Casey Announce Committee Approval of Pennsylvania Transportation Projects

August 3, 2009

• The crude reality in the Waxman-Markey energy bill
• Following the Money: $100 Million in Transit Tax Dollars Wasted
• How Budget Cuts in Florida Affect Drivers

August 4, 2009

• Construction Begins on Iranian Monorail
• UK to introduce workplace parking levy?

August 5, 2009

• Group aims to block I-90 use for light rail
• Diamond in the rough: Work begins on new I-65 interchange
• No Room For Steamroller On Highways
• Opinion: Running the numbers on high-speed trains
• MAYOR BLOOMBERG, GOVERNOR PATERSON, FEDERAL AND CITY OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE FEDERAL STIMULUS FUNDING FOR FERRY PROJECTS

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