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Hill & Smith is buying Swedish firm ATA for SEK 100 million (£9.8 million).

The German construction equipment manufacturer's association, the VDMA, has said that the new EU-exhaust emission directive presents a major challenge for its members. According to the VDMA, the introduction of the EU-Exhaust Emission Regulation Stage IIIB has resulted in a great deal of investment at huge cost. For customers that has resulted in higher prices and the VDMA sees tighter regulation as being counter-productive.

The International Transport Forum at the OECD, an intergovernmental organisation for the transport sector that comprises 52 countries, has announced the winner of its 2011 Young Researcher of the Year Award.

New legislation has changed fuel specifications as well as engine emission requirements, writes Claire Symes. The latest Stage IIIB engines mean that on-site maintenance routines for newer equipment need to be changed. And at the same time, new fuel specifications also mean changes to management of fuel for all machines. The European standard for gas oil, EN590, changed at the start of the year in order to comply with the Renewable Energy and Fuel Quality Directives. This means fuels now must be low sulphur

The latest available data regarding the European construction equipment market suggests that the machinery market is improving.

The severe risk of working in Afghanistan was highlighted when Taliban insurgents attacked a road construction firm in Paktia Province.

A series of key technical innovations are now coming to market that will help boost performance for future electric vehicles.

For environmental reasons planners decided in favour of the challenging task of constructing a 13-field arched highway bridge over the Oparno Valley in the Bohemian area of the Czech Republic. The 258m bridge, whose reinforced concrete arch has a span of 135m, straddles the valley without any bridge piers, transferring the loads in the form of compressive forces into the foundations.

Work is progressing on the 180km National Highway 18 project in India linking Kurnool and Kadapa.

Mobileye's new C2-170, based on the company's vehicle detection and lane detection technologies, can be installed in all types of vehicles. The system consists of a high visibility display unit, EyeWatch1; an audio alert buzzer and a vehicle screen-mounted visual sensor unit.

A new bridge in Ecuador will improve transport connections in the country.

A US$104 million road project that will improve cross-border links in Southern Africa is now getting underway thanks to a loan from the African Development Bank (ADB).

One of the latest innovations from road safety equipment company Nissen is NiNa (Nissen Navigation) Traffic and NiNa Guard, a combination of sophisticated sensor and a traffic counter which collects data on traffic density and speed. Data collected by the system can then be used to warn oncoming motorists by displaying the traffic information and warning on variable message signs.

The construction project for an industrial park, which includes building the roads linking to the facility, will benefit from the use of a stabiliser from BoMAG.

The UN Road Safety Collaboration has used support from the World Health Organisation in its development of a Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 (DARS).

Tunnels are the highest value assets on a highway, making their operation, safety and maintenance of paramount importance. Patrick Smith reports

Upgrade work to five sections of the D1 highway in the Czech Republic is due to commence in spring 2012.

The authorities in Phnom Penh plan to handle the city's endemic congestion problems.

The complex legal tangle over Poland's troubled A2 highway project is continuing to develop.

A report by Frost & Sullivan predicts that the European electric vehicle charging infrastructure market is set to boom.