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IRF NewsFlash

July 22, 2009

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

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 16, 2009

• Guatemala's new law helps reduce drive-by killings by 84%
• Resource road safety efforts urged

July 17, 2009

• Higher Speed Limits Cost Lives, Researchers Find
• Texting, middle fingers up among N.J. drivers
• New centre to put focus on WA drivers, road safety

July 20, 2009

• Study Says Higher Speed Limits Cost Lives
• LINKING RESPONSIBILITY AT SCHOOL AND ON THE ROADS
• Europe: Battle against mega-trucks picks up speed

July 21, 2009

• Nano likely to worsen the traffic problem in India
• Speed kills

July 22, 2009

• Sharp drop in road deaths
• Study Concludes That Higher Speed Limits in US Have Resulted in a 3.2% Increase in Road Fatalities
• Optelecom-NKF connects Dubai's intelligent traffic system
• Move with Safety with Traffic Safety Cones

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Intelligent Transportation

July 16, 2009

• Digital Video Transceiver Module Ideal for Monitoring and Transportation Systems
• Syncromatics Uses Autodesk Inventor to Provide Smart Transit Information for Riders

July 17, 2009

• Digital Video Transceiver Module Ideal for Monitoring and Transportation Systems
• Advantech: PCI-104 card offers 8 isolated digital inputs and relays
• Cyclone Power Technologies Responds to Rumors about "Flesh Eating" Military Robot
• Image Sensing Systems Named One of the FORTUNE Small Business 100

July 20, 2009

• GE Transportation Completes $80 Million Project with Sound Transit in Seattle
• Digital Video Transceiver Module Ideal for Monitoring and Transportation Systems

July 21, 2009

• Syncromatics Uses Autodesk Inventor to Provide Smart Transit Information for Riders
• TIA Addresses Standards for Emerging Technologies and Climate Change with the World's Leading Standards Developers

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Road Financing

July 16, 2009

• EBRD lends €38 million to western Ukrainian city of Lviv
• India's JM Financial may launch $400 mln fund -exec
• Arkansas Panel to consider new, existing sources for road funding

July 17, 2009

• Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department Director says highways need $300M more
• OHL Brazil To Issue BRL120 Million In Promissory Notes
• 2008 to 2013 Costs of the Proposed Honolulu Rail Project Detailed

July 20, 2009

• Are 'vehicle miles traveled' better way to fund roads?
• Recovery funds may drive hybrid fleet
• Would you be willing to pay higher tolls to help finance road improvements?
• QNB's Khartoum branch to finance $30m road project
• Federal Bills to Require Telework-Enabling Broadband Conduit in Highways

July 21, 2009

• AHTD director says highways need $300M more
• Tolls on table in transportation talks

July 22, 2009

• Tolls, usage fees, congestion pricing preferred means of financing roads in Kansas City metro area KS
• Council kills anonymous complaints measure

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Environment

July 16, 2009

• Light-rail system debuts Saturday in Seattle
• Provision of technical Experts for the Design & Construction of the Dubai Metro
• Traffic Congestion Eases Slightly in Nation's Metro Areas
• Ankeny, Iowa approves agreement to construct interchange
• I-35 frontage roads need work despite no funds, official says

July 17, 2009

• Transportation Bill Delay Will Hurt Small Businesses ARTBA Leader Tells Congress
• TelCoa Publishes 'Top Ten Reasons to Telework'
• Dallas and Fort Worth desire streetcar systems
• L.A. Public Still High on Transit Tax Measure

July 20, 2009

• US Secretary of Transportation Says Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled Necessary for Substantive CO2 Reduction from Transportation
• Governors pledge to expedite bridges project
• New I-5 camera aimed at trucks
• 10% Cut in Truck Traffic Called 'Almost Ludicrous'
• Memphis - Signal coordination to reduce emissions, time
• Remove Congestion, Boost Capacity by Going Underground
• Workers rewarded for improving Utah's air quality
• California bill takes 710 extension underground

July 21, 2009

• Light rail: Is Sound Transit wrong on parking and noise?
• IQ of Child Lower from Pollution Exposure During Pregnancy
• Stay in the sweet spot
• Apple looking to improve GPS route-planning estimates
• New 3-lane bridge over Westfield River due to open by end of August
• NYSDOT Breaks Ground on $27.9M Route 110-LIE Bridge

July 22, 2009

• Lethem road (IIRSA) could lead to big forest loss unless REDD framework in place
• Battling over highway bill delay
• Highway construction update
• Can Bogota's Clean Bus System Be Replicated in Other Cities?
• Residents Angered After Road Extension Gets Go Ahead

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