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IRF NewsFlash

February 25, 2009

Special Announcement: 2009 GRAA Competition Now Open

The IRF has officially opened the 2009 GRAA Competition and is now accepting applications. This annual competition honors and publicizes the innovation and benefit the road industry provides the global community. Download the application and submit your project. Please contact Magid Elabyad for more information.

In This Issue

IRF News

• IRF Upcoming Events
• IRF Member News

Industry News

• Road Safety
• Intelligent Transportation
• Road Financing
• Environment

IRF Upcoming Events

• 2009 IRF Student Essay Competition
  Deadline for Submissions - May 31, 2009
• Preserving our Highway Infrastructure Assets
  August 4 - 7, 2009
  Orlando, Florida
• IRF seminar on Road Safety and PPP
  October 2-3, 2009
  Cairo, Egypt
• 14th Annual IRF Executive Seminar on Contract Maintenance
  October 2009
  Orlando, Florida
  

IRF Member News

• Opticon installed to aid in emergencies in Wilkins
• Maunsell AECOM to design $3b Bridge
• New Zealand Transport Agency - The 7th Austroads Bridge Conference
• Abu Dhabi plans metro network
• New 3M Sign Grant Program Helps Reduce Replacement Costs

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Industry News

Road Safety

February 19, 2009

• Telegra Receives Award for Promoting Road Safety
• State of the nations
• Interior Ministry pavilion at Health Fair
• Colorado House panel OKs road funding bill with tolls, truck fee increases
• Road map to safety
• ITP hold road safety education workshop
• 3 Things to Know to Find Japanese Car Exporters easily
• LTA to give roads safety makeover

February 20, 2009

• ITP striving to make Islamabad Model City
• Motocross Strategic Committee-FIM

February 23, 2009

• Local Hauliers Want Axle-Load Limits Increased to 30pc
• Morocco hosts first cross-Maghreb road safety workshop
• Move to reduce traffic accidents
• Police must clamp down on dangerous truck drivers now
• Callous driving claims 10,000 lives a year in Pakistan

February 24, 2009

• New research suggests that road safety is no longer to priority
• Roads death toll is unlikely to fall says outgoing safety chief
• Road safety scheme for schools on cards
• Training programmes for heavy motor vehicle drivers
• Ghana: These Needless Road Traffic Accidents

February 25, 2009

• Road safety scheme for schools on cards

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Intelligent Transportation

February 19, 2009

• Intelligent transport system for developing countries
• Advantech Intros Embedded Automation Computer
• Use city funds for long-term benefit
• Honda to Exhibit its Latest Advanced Safety Vehicles
• Losing Our Technology Advantage

February 20, 2009

• Global Electronic Toll Collection Systems Revenues to Reach $3.8 billion by 2012
• Advantech fanless computer suits embedded automation
• Honda to Exhibit its Latest Advanced Safety Vehicles
• Smart Roads. Smart Bridges. Smart Grids.

February 23, 2009

• Communications Superhighway
• Ethanol a 'step' to next stage

February 24, 2009

• Global Electronic Toll Collection Systems Revenues to Reach $3.8 billion by 2012
• THE ALGORITHM OF VEHICLE TRACKING BASED ON MIXTURE MODULE
• Ethernet Direct Announces Data Collection Devices For Industrial Applications
• Image Sensing Systems and Econolite reach Autoscope Mideast distribution agreement

February 25, 2009

• GPS-Monitored Car Based Fees

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Road Financing

February 19, 2009

• Cumberland gets short end of car tax deal, too
• South Dakota readies road stimulus projects list
• Raising gas taxes is not the only answer

February 20, 2009

• Stimulus offers ample access for cities, states
• Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Feb 20
• Discussions to toll I-80 resurrected
• Kansas Officials To Outline Stimulus Plans
• State prepares $115 million list of highway stimulus projects

February 23, 2009

• Stimulus offers ample access for cities, states
• Stimulus-financed projects outlined
• Central New York officials learn about applying for stimulus funds
• So. Dakota lines up highway projects
• East Hartford mayor plans $5.3 million in budget cuts
• Look to performance audits for ready-made cuts
• Stimulus Money Will Not Pay For Upward Road Project

February 24, 2009

• Fed money gives new road plan time to grow
• Mn/DOT official asked if Highway 44 could be moved up priority list
• Selectmen's budget proposal represents a 2.99% increase
• Bridge tolls not what voters wanted

February 25, 2009

• OHL Net Buoyed by Work Outside Spain, Chairman Says
• Cintra 2008 Loss Widens On Lower Traffic, Financing Costs
• Consultancy services for carrying out inventory and condition surveys of all bridges and major culverts on the core road network
• Financial Federal Corporation Second Quarter Fiscal 2009 Earnings Release and Conference Call Notice
• West Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank
• Arison unit bids on Romania toll road: The Arison unit is bidding to plan, finance, build, operate and maintain the project
• Miami City Council delays action on proposed tax increase
• County delivers $4.3M for Sumneytown Pike project

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Environment

February 19, 2009

• Political fights loom over infrastructure dollars
• Work to start soon on city's greenway
• Residents fearful about interchange project
• Bus services hold their own
• Schools grant encourages students to walk, ride a bike
• Hayward Road
• Stimulus bill rolls money train to S.A.

February 20, 2009

• PCA Supports ASCE Call for Improvement of Nation’s Systems
• Los Angeles mayoral candidates weigh in on the proposed Subway to the Sea
• Ax the Tax: Abolish the Expressway Authority
• Readying for recovery
• Dangerous streets: Pinpointing can lead to answers
• Chicagoans Press for Transit Benefits from Olympics
• Gov. Perry Taking 'Hard Look' at Local-Option Rail Legislation
• Tolls May Return to the Coronado Bridge

February 23, 2009

• Invest for Economy, Environment
• Stimulus funds for public transit
• California, once a dream state, strives to get back its groove
• A better new new deal: how can we get the most bang for our transportation buck?
• FEDERAL STIMULUS FUNDS: Nevada's per person share low
• Law requires yielding to buses - plus, they're bigger than you
• Puyallup wants rapid bus line
• Legacy Parkway Northern Interchange
• Politics to win infrastructure dollars

February 24, 2009

• INX Awarded State of New Mexico Department of Transportation Contract forRailRunner Train's High Speed Wireless System
• Better mass transit will bring economic benefits to Wisconsin
• Raiders, 49ers should learn to share, use the same playground
• NDOR Cameras Will Help Manage Traffic Congestion
• Cyberspace Realities and Futures
• Marine shipping gains interest
• Some Fort Worth highway speed limits to drop

February 25, 2009

• Ottawa not eager to get on board high-speed rail link
• Fashola Launches Safety Traffic Advocacy
• Study cites ways to ease traffic nightmare
• Road projects ready to go
• America's Worst Intersections
• Blue Springs to spend nearly $1 million this year to add bike routes and pedestrian trails
• Inx to build WiFi system for N.M. trains
• Savannah prepares for possible stimulus funding

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