Highway & Network Management

The Illinois Tollway is seeking firms to provide design, management and other technical services for 22 new contracts associated with the 15-year, US$12 billion capital programme Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future.The contracts will provide for more than $200 million in services over the next five years for new projects including the Elgin O'Hare West Bypass, the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) rebuild and widening and the Tri-State Tollway (I-294)/I-57 Interchange."In August, the Il

An alliance of companies has come together to realise major infrastructure projects in Latvia including its biggest bridge. Patrick Smith reports. Riga, the Latvian capital, has the finest collection of Art Nouveau buildings in Europe and its centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The city of some 750,000 people (the country's total population is 2.2 million) is bounded to the south by Lithuania and to the north by Estonia, and is the second largest in Baltic States. To the east is Russia and Belarus.

The Abu Dhabi Department of Transport has awarded Traffic Tech (Gulf) – Abu Dhabi a traffic signal maintenance contract for the Al Ain Municipality. Valued at over US$ 4.5 million, the contract will run for two years covering maintenance and development of all traffic signals throughout the city. Recently, Middle East Integrated Systems (MEIS), Traffic Tech Group’s Bahraini based company, has also been awarded Bahrain’s traffic signal maintenance contract covering over 280 intersections. Currently, the grou

EbpSource, a provider of high volume e-billing and payment solutions, worldwide has announced its involvement in helping the Canadian Tolling Company International (407 ETR) to go live with a dynamic new customer self-service portal. 407 ETR manages Toronto's 407 Highway, a 108 km barrier-free toll highway that uses video cameras and vehicle-mounted transponders to record an average of 380,000 workday trips which are then processed and billed to customers.

Austrian traffic systems manufacturer Swarco Group expects to record a turnover growth of double digits to €465 million (US$643.96 million) in 2011, after a turnover of €409.7 million in 2010.

TransCore has been selected by the city of San Jose - the capital of Silicon Valley - in California to implement adaptive traffic control technology at approximately 50 intersections in seven areas of the city. Each of the junctions is challenged with varying traffic congestion resulting from commutes to freeway interchanges, travel to regional shopping malls, and trips to local business and commercial districts.

Israel's new Road No 6 project is well on track, with some 140km of the planned 260km route already operating. The Road No 6 project is being planned by Cross Road Highway from planning and statutory stages through bidding and construction.

Arup, in partnership with URS Scott Wilson, has been appointed to a new UK national government procurement service framework for traffic management technology research and consultancy services. The pan-government collaborative agreement, which will be available to all UK public sector bodies from next week, is expected to delivery up to US$5 billion of contracts during it four-year lifetime.