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Drivers in Texas using the SH161 route are set to benefit from a US$418 million loan being provided by the US Department of Transportation to complete work on the link.

Argentina's smart highway network plan, Red Federal de Autopistas en la Argentina (RFA), has still to be implemented.

The tender process is opening in Romania for the new Cernavoda-Medgidia highway.

A key research award is attracting a high-profile list of prospective candidates.

In Hungary the tender process for the new M3 highway section linking Vasarosnameny and the number 49 highway is to be restarted following an unsuccessful bidding process earlier.

Ghana's infrastructure system is to benefit from a loan worth US$10.4 billion being awarded by the China Exim Bank.

The US has celebrated the bicentennial of its first federally funded road.

A joint project to build a new road link is being set up by the governments of China and Mongolia.

Vietnam's Ministry of Transport has given its approval for the six-lane Thanh Hoa-Ninh Binh highway project, which will follow the PPP model.

A new survey of contractors carrying out transportation projects in the US offers little encouragement for the state of the market at present.

The authorities in Russian city St Petersburg have set a new budget for road repairs and highway upgrades in 2011.

The latest KOMATEK Exhibition in Turkey has been highly successful accrding to its organisers.

Engineering firm EC Harris is now starting work on a two year contract for Abu Dhabi's transport plan.

America's national research effort to develop publicly-acceptable technology that will prevent the illegal operation of a vehicle by a drunk driver (0.08 or above blood alcohol content) is entering a new phase in which it will move out of the laboratory and onto the road with a drivable test vehicle expected to be ready in two years.

A major campaign is commencing in the UK with the laudable aim of reducing road fatality rates.