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Data from the Italian construction equipment manufacturer's association (UNACEA) shows that the country's off-highway equipment market was still in recession in the first part of 2011.

Work is now going ahead on the Viadom road construction project in the Dominican Republic.

The Nepalese Government looks set to increase its transport budget for the next fiscal year.

Jason Barnes reviews the last few decades and the future of tolling technology. Tolling and charging technology has evolved significantly over the last three decades and that evolution is perhaps best illustrated by reductions in or complete removal of impedances to physical progress. Once, it was customary for a driver to pull up to a barrier, make some form of cash payment to a human operative in a booth, and then wait for the barrier to be raised before proceeding. Humans were eventually complemented and

Improving aggregate production and quality levels is not just about investing in the latest equipment but making sure existing machines are optimised - Claire Symes reports. Although the cost of fuel has dropped since last summer's high, reducing the cost/tonne of production is still high on the agenda for most quarry operators, along with improving quality.

The Japanese Government is giving US$30 million towards construction of a new bridge in Nicaragua.

A Chinese contractor is awarding sub-contracting work in Sri Lanka on a number of key road projects in Jaffna.

Higgins Contractors of New Zealand has made rapid use of its new Borum BMT 350 road marking machine, the first of its type in the country. The machine was bought recently to undertake contract work for the New Zealand Transport Authority and local councils, following a meeting Higgins had with Borum representatives at the Intertraffic exhibition in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a year ago.

A World Bank loan worth US$109 million is paying for an upgrade to the road connecting the Bolivian conurbations of Rurrenabaque and Ixiamas as well as to the airport in Rurrenabaque.

The authorities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) will be able to boost transport infrastructure following the provision of a development assistance grant worth US$371.35 million.

In determining the mechanical strength of cement, the European Standard EN 196 prescribes both compressive and flexural tests, so when Italian company Tecnotest designed its current generation of cement testing machines, the aim was to obtain highly accurate results over the full scale despite the wide range involved by implementing a dual scale in a single test bay, using load cells as dynamometers.

The UK's new Hindhead Tunnel is now open to traffic. The ?420 million (£371 million) tunnel runs under the Devil's Punch Bowl in Surrey and will reduce congestion, while boosting safety on the busy A3 route.

In India a total of eight road projects worth US$1.43 billion have been given approval by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

Police in Ireland have finally managed to find out why a Polish driver who had racked up over 50 separate offences had never been caught. One police officer realised that the name written on the paperwork recording each incident meant driving licence in Polish and that the one driver named was in fact 50 different people. Until that point Irish officers had mistakenly written the words Prawo Jazdy, which is printed on the top of a Polish driving licence as being the name of the offending driver. Despite the

Chile's Ministry of Public Works (MOP) will re-open highway concessions worth over US$1 billion shortly.

In Kenya a judge found himself facing a judge following a fracas at the roadside. The judge was driving his official car, a Mercedes, when it was involved in an accident with another vehicle. The two cars stopped following the minor crash and there was a disagreement, which quickly boiled over and ended with the other driver being taken to hospital, having been stabbed in the stomach. The judge claimed that the other driver was drunk and had then fallen on his own knife as the dispute escalated. However the

New York Mayor Bloomberg has unveiled a new, technology-based traffic management system that allows city traffic engineers to monitor and respond to Midtown Manhattan traffic conditions in real time, improving traffic flow on the city’s most congested streets.

MB S.p.A. of Italy has launched the first of a new generation in its bucket crusher range following the successful launch of the units in 2007. According to the company, which currently exports to more than 100 countries, applications for MB bucket crushers, which fit a variety of excavator sizes (and which also include an iron separator) are many.

A woman in the Austrian city of Graz has had to go to jail for 500 days, for ignoring parking tickets.

The southern section of Serbia's Corridor 10 highway is now carrying traffic, with only final works needed to complete the link.