If you are having trouble viewing this, click here | Forward This Email to a Friend

IRF Newsflash

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
  
  

back to top

Industry News

Road Safety

July 23, 2009

• USAID implements projects in Lebanon
• Recession driving down number of road deaths
• Positive news for global road safety
• Move with Safety with Traffic Safety Cones
• NO SCHOOL, NO LICENCE: ADDRESSING THE STATE'S SPIRALLING ROAD TOLL AND HELPING TO CURB ABSENTEEISM RATES AT THE SAME TIME

July 24, 2009

• Legal update: VicRoads Targets Waste Management Industry
• Italy considering new road safety regulations
• Make motorcycle safety gear mandatory
• Driving dangers off road

July 27, 2009

• The ERF-IRF BPC releases European Road Statistics 2009 transport data
• Chain of Responsibility 2009
• Declining ranks of MA troopers worries some
• President Medvedev issues instructions for expedient improvement in road safety

July 28, 2009

• Bill would help fund Chesapeake Bypass
• BC Medical Association: British Columbians Support a Cell Phone Ban for Drivers
• Map of the Week: Road crash victims

July 29, 2009

• North Carolina considers ending vehicle safety inspections
• Drivers face crackdown in Gulf region

back to top

Intelligent Transportation

July 24, 2009

• Transportation & Housing Earmarks
• Safety group to settle RFID issue
• Dept. Of Transportation Undersecretary Calls For Sustainable Highway Trust Fund
• Syncromatics Uses Autodesk Inventor to Provide Smart Transit Information for Riders
• GE Transportation Completes $80 Million Project with Sound Transit in Seattle

July 27, 2009

• Fun and Games with Transportation
• Optelecom-NKF connects Dubai's intelligent traffic system
• Solis Energy Joins Network to Provide Power Solutions for Wireless Deployments

July 28, 2009

• New Transportation Website Targets Greenhouse Gases
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targeted by Transportation Website

July 29, 2009

• Solis Energy Signs On with Tropos Solution Partner Network
• Sustainability Summit in Milan to be in Held in November 2009
• New website is being launched by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to highlight strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

back to top

Road Financing

July 23, 2009

• Nagin lobbies federal officials
• Council kills anonymous complaints bill Disappointed supporters of measure say 'it's not over'
• State urged to levy taxes, fees to pave way for roads
• McDonnell unveils new plans for Va. roads

July 24, 2009

• Governor says money is on the way from I-Jobs program
• States Pursue Mix of Approaches to Fund and Finance Transportation

July 27, 2009

• Touchy Subject of Tolls Is Back in Connecticut
• Cap Metro, Austin could get millions from feds
• AGC: Highway user rate commission needed
• Kansas ponders charging mileage fees

July 28, 2009

• House Transportation Chairman Oberstar Proposes New Fees
• $85 Million for Dulles Rail

July 29, 2009

• US House could act on $5 billion highway extension
• Highway User Rate Commission Needed to Get Projects Built, Congestion, Pollution Reduced
• House subcommittee members laud short-line tax credit extension

back to top

Environment

July 23, 2009

• Committee narrows choices for Lake Oswego streetcar plan
• Roads and rails could bring boom along US 341
• Traffic, road safety focus of meeting
• Feds select WTI to create national transportation assistance center for public lands
• Oberstar’s highway bill boosts bikes
• Power Road widening to begin in 2011
• Environmentalists Protest Plans to Widen I-270

July 24, 2009

• City's investment in technology, innovation ‘is a must'
• New England Governors Earmark ARRA Funds for Regional Rail Projects
• Bicycle, pedestrian plan open to public comment
• Residents object to Ind. 267 project
• UCLA faculty experts advisory: MTA approves toll lanes on 10, 110 freeways

July 27, 2009

• AGC: Highway user rate commission needed
• Cool cars: Five trends to watch
• Dodd: Connecticut Has Solid Chance Of Receiving Funds For New Haven-Springfield Rail
• Dhaka - Parliamentary committee recommends realizing compensation for Jamuna bridge crack
• Think big on little scooters
• Washington DC - Raise the Gas Tax

July 28, 2009

• New Transportation Website Targets Greenhouse Gases
• An accelerating danger zone
• Bill would help fund Chesapeake Bypass
• Governor Quinn, Senator Durbin, Mayor Daley Host Midwest High Speed Rail Summit
• Safe Routes Nebraska Announces Available Funding, Application Workshops
• $85 Million for Dulles Rail

July 29, 2009

• Where does your city stand on traffic congestion?
• CNBC ranks Atlanta 3rd-best for transportation
• NYC Law Would Require Buildings to Give Bike Access
• Indiana Among States Agreeing to Seek High Speed Rail Funding

back to top