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According to a recent report by the London Assembly Transport Committee report into motorcycle safety, Easy Rider: Improving motorcycle safety on London roads, around 17 per cent of those injured on London’s roads and 24 per cent of serious casualties are motorcyclists, despite this mode accounting for one percent of traffic. After a period of decline it appears the number of motorcyclist casualties in London is growing again. In 2010, 4,337 motorcyclists were injured on London’s roads. By 2014, this had gr

According to news reports, UK Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce funding for driverless truck trials on the M6 motorway when he delivers his budget this month. A stretch of the M6 near Carlisle has reportedly been earmarked for the trials, which could see platoons of up to ten driverless lorries take to the road as the government pushes ahead with next-generation transportation in a bid to reduce congestion and journey times. The trucks would each have a driver in the cab as a safety me

Two road-building schemes worth US$283 million, which are a key part of the UK government’s long-term economic plan for Bedfordshire, are on course to be delivered on time and on budget by spring 2017. The 2.8 mile, US$229 million A5-M1 Link scheme is being delivered by Highways England, while the US$54 million, 1.8 mile Woodside Link project is being completed by Central Bedfordshire Council. The A5-M1 Link dual carriageway project is intended to improve the east-west connection between the A5 and M1

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a loan of US$120 million to China to support the integrated transport development in the Wuhan Metropolitan Region. Located in Hubei Province in central China, the Wuhan Metropolitan Region is a city cluster formed by eight smaller cities within a 100-kilometre radius of the core city Wuhan and has been selected as a pilot in China’s search for a new urban development model attuned to the national goals of promoting equity and environmental sustainab

The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded Iteris a new five-year contract for training departments of transportation technical staff on sustainable transportation planning and environment programs. This new US$19 million contract expands the topics to include economic analysis and smart land use, as well as environment programs that promote safer and more efficient mobility. Iteris has been pr

The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded Iteris a new five-year contract for training departments of transportation technical staff on sustainable transportation planning and environment programs. This new US$19 million contract expands the topics to include economic analysis and smart land use, as well as environment programs that promote safer and more efficient mobility. Iteris has been pr

Vehicle detection and identification technology provider Nedap is to partner with Czech traffic management company Cross on improving the control of city traffic flows, by integrating Nedap’s parking bay sensor system Sensit into the Cross traffic management and information system InVipo.

Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) is expanding its service offering in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and Washington DC, with the opening of GTT Mid-Atlantic, which will be responsible for selling and servicing the entire line of Opticom and Canoga solutions. Opticom emergency and transit solutions and Canoga traffic-sensing solutions are deployed at more than 70,000 intersections and 3,100 cities worldwide, including 41 of the 50 largest North American cities. GTT Mid-Atlantic will recei

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has announced that US$500 million will be made available for transportation projects across the country under an eighth round of the highly successful Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) competitive grant program. The 2016 TIGER discretionary grants will fund capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and will be awarded on a competitive basis for projects that will have a significant impact on the nation, a metropoli

International Road Dynamics (IRD has announced record financial and operating results for the three and twelve months ended 30 November 2015. The company saw net earnings increased 85 per cent to US$1.8 (CA$2.5) million, with revenue up 29 per cent to US$42 (CA$58) million on growth in key geographic markets and product segments. EBITDA rose by 58 per cent on revenue growth and strong gross margin. "We generated record results in fiscal 2015, the result of strong growth in all of our major markets a