Spanish firm OHL is expected to begin the expansion of Peru's Red Vial 4 highway by end-May 2010, an official from the transport and communications ministry's (MTC) concessions division told BNamericas. Join discussion...

Imagine driving Arizona highways that alert motorists of a traffic jam before it forms, or over bridges that report when they're cracking, or on people-moving innovations that make you proud of your state government. Countries around the globe and even state and municipal entities in America are using those innovations. Arizona is not. Join discussion...

Proactive highway widening, maintenance and reinvestment are among the factors that have helped Highway 407 stem recessionary impacts, a company official said last week. Imad Nassereddine, chief traffic operations officer for the 407 ETR Concession Co. Ltd., was speaking at Transport Futures 2009: Road Pricing and Public Acceptance Workshops in Toronto Nov. 12 to 13. Join discussion...

Highways development, which remained largely comatose during UPA-I, has got an adrenalin injection with the induction of Kamal Nath as the minister in-charge. But his pitch to create 20 km of highways, despite his good intentions, looks hard to achieve, primarily because of capacity constraints in the road construction industry—an issue that has got much less attention than it deserves. Join discussion...

To cut red tape in the process of obtaining approvals for highway projects, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has proposed that the B K Chaturvedi Committee do away with the system of mandatory approval of the Private-Public Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) before tendering of a project. Join discussion...

The Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) has granted approval to eight more PPP projects, estimated to cost a total of around Rs10,883.89 crore. The 28th PPPAC meeting, chaired by finance secretary, on 16 October, granted approval to eight more projects of the ministry of road transport and highways, spread across three states. The projects included the following: Join discussion...

Companhia de Concessoes Rodoviarias (CCR), Brazil's largest road concession operator in terms of revenue, announces its results for the 3rd quarter of 2009. Unless otherwise stated, all financial and operating data herein are presented on a consolidated basis in Reais (R$) pursuant to Brazilian Corporate Law and all comparisons refer to the 3Q08 and 9M08. Join discussion...

Most of the funds from the equity raising will be either for entering into the build-operate-transfer (BOT) space pan-India or we will look into acquisitions outside the country. We also are looking into capital investment in the country. Join discussion...

Engineering, procurement and construction company Punj Lloyd Ltd, which has interests in construction for the oil and gas, thermal power and civil infrastructure industries, wants to increase its highways portfolio in India, company chairman Atul Punj said. The company is looking to participate in projects covering 2,000-3,000km over the next six months, Punj said. Join discussion...

In a complete break from the current style of bidding out highway projects (as small parcels of land), the surface transport ministry is planning to award mega projects comprising 400 km to 600 km of highways. “In the next four to six months, we will be bidding out the first of the mega projects that will entail an investment of Rs 5,000 crore or about $1 billion,” road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath said on Sunday. He was speaking on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit. Join discussion...