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IRF Newsflash

August 12, 2009

Grassroots Action Alert! IRF joins its U.S. national road association ARTBA to urge members to call congress and tell them not to delay passing reauthorization.

In This Issue

IRF News

• IRF Upcoming Events

Industry News

• Road Safety
• Intelligent Transportation
• Road Financing
• Environment

IRF Upcoming Events

• 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

August 6, 2009

• President Medvedev to hold meeting on road safety in Russia
• Italians addressing road safety
• Irony behind good roads, high rate of accidents
• Evident lack of safety for cyclists on the Coast Road
• Crashes Spur Talk, But Road Threat Remains

August 7, 2009

• Harsher penalties after teen's fatality

August 10, 2009

• Move With Safety With Traffic Safety Cones
• Play greater role in road safety campaigns, says Lau
• Cyclists and the rules of the road
• Ford's Clever Key Fob: Will it Make Teen Drivers Safer, or More Reckless?
• Governor Quinn Signs Bill To Ban Texting While Driving

August 11, 2009

• Signs to go up at Bristol motorbike crash hotspots
• Government agency turns to IP surveillance
• Driving schools under scrutiny

August 12, 2009

• 50 years of belting up to save lives
• JICA partnership has improved Uganda's roads

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Intelligent Transportation

August 6, 2009

• Research and Markets Adds Report: Green Environment and Intelligent Transportation Systems: Assessment Technologies and Markets
• U.S. plucks PSU prof for transportation agency post

August 7, 2009

• IRD Awarded CAD $2.3 Million Virtual Weigh Station Contract

August 10, 2009

• IBM: give us one great idea
• IRD lands contract in U.S.

August 12, 2009

• Connect Globally for an Innovation Economy
• GS&P To Develop Guidebook For Creating Traveler Information At Airports

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Road Financing

August 6, 2009

• Hutchison picks, chooses issues on key Senate panel
• The Fed and Inflation

August 7, 2009

• Where’s Kay? Senator Absent from Key Senate Hearings
• Hutchison picks and chooses her issues on key Senate panel

August 10, 2009

• Md. tolls could rise to pay for widening I-270
• Plan to develop 35000 km of National Highways in the next five years
• Are tolls the way to go to fix roads?

August 11, 2009

• Transportation infrastructure: Obama signs off on HTF funding

August 12, 2009

• ARRA, Highway Trust Fund Facilitate Infrastructure Improvements
• Independence posting details of stimulus funds, projects online

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Environment

August 6, 2009

• University lauded for improving air quality, reducing traffic congestion
• New Shared-Ride Jet Service Pumps Green Aviation
• Group pushes Richmond for green-transit projects
• North Fulton CID has plans to improve transportation
• DOT to widen 5 miles of Highway 54

August 7, 2009

• China Focus: Things changed and unchanged one year after Beijing Olympics
• Does closing roads cut delays?
• Most stimulus-targeted bridges in Texas are OK
• OP-ED: High Speed Rail is wasteful
• Dodd Calls for Greater Federal Investment in America's Transit Systems

August 10, 2009

• ORBIS Cycle: Your Answer to the City’s Traffic Jams
• Mexico summit must be more than photo-op
• Let's Skip the Old Debate and Adopt Creative Solutions, by Stewart Schwartz
• Most Texas bridges due to get stimulus money in pretty good shape

August 11, 2009

• Telvent to Install Toll System in the New Bilbao Southern Bypass
• U.S. plans roadless forests guideline
• Gov. Paterson kicks off $376.3 million construction project at JFK Airport
• NYC Crash Brings Calls for Tighter Airspace Rules

August 12, 2009

• 15 years and $17 million later, I-270 still crawling along
• Coasters better for public transportation
• New York City Traffic: New York's Top-5 Most Congested Roads
• $595 million construction project on I-90 begins earlier than expected
• Autolib: Paris' Electric-Car Sharing Plan

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