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Part of a plan to make Columbia, county highways more pedestrian-friendly
Howard County officials say riding bikes themselves helps them plan for altering streets to make them safer for cyclists. That's becoming increasingly important as county planners see bicycles as a traffic-friendly part of the transportation mix for the redeveloped downtown Columbia, and as a part of County Executive Ken Ulman's push for environmentally sound and healthy ways to get around.
Frederick police say a Monrovia man was killed early Sunday when the vehicle he was driving struck a building. Police say two passengers in the vehicle also were injured in the crash.
After completion of several pilot projects, including Road 34 Glahytt-St Aby, E4 Enånger-Hudiksvall and Road 50 Mjölby-Motala, NCC Infra has chosen DynaRoad as the main tool for scheduling and optimising of major infrastructure construction projects.
"The result of our industrial approach provides repetitive impact and possibilities to standardisation that is useful in all types of projects," says Thomas Lidberg, director of NCC Infra. "Thanks to building information modelling (BIM) we can ensure quality already in early design phases and control our machinery with higher precisio... Read More
In order to decrease overall costs and minimise the risk of cost-overruns in production, the Finnish Transport Agency is focusing on early stage design management based on mass haul optimisation. With several completed projects behind it, the efforts are now starting to pay off. An excellent example of this can be seen at the VT7 project in south-eastern Finland.
The VT7 project covers the development of a 15km highway north of the city Hamina. The road section is part of the E18 that forms a central element of the Nordic Triangle, which links the Nordic capitals to each other, Russia and ... Read More
Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, announces the availability of the DuraNAS 1000 rugged network attached storage (NAS), a reliable high capacity mass storage solution for IP-based systems installed on rolling stocks as well as in all applications requiring a rugged device designed for harsh environment.
The DuraNAS 1000 is a network device which can be accessed from anywhere the network is accessible, even from remote locations.
Reliable, expendable mass storage
The DuraNAS 1000 is ideally suited to complement the DuraCOR NVR video recording system by providing expa... Read More
Sky High is delighted to announce the appointment of Peter Agnew as commercial manager. Agnew is currently technical director for Jacobs Engineering UK and will bring valuable experience to all of our teams by strengthening the firm's campaign to add value to customers.
A very well respected professional in the industry, Agnew has ten years' experience in managing and directing in all areas of data collection including operational leadership, sales/marketing and customer care. He will assist Sky High to achieve the firm's business plan to become the major data collection company in the UK. ... Read More
Sky High has been commissioned to undertake a large pedestrian survey in Munich for a major client based in London.
The requirement is to record pedestrian data at 50 locations on two days. For the project, which is being managed from our head office near Leeds, a mixture of video and manual methods is being deployed.
This is Sky High's first foray into Germany and we are delighted that such a significant client has faith in empowering us to collect and collate the data so far from our usual operational regions.
"The rapid growth in budget airlines, our willing staff, and close client... Read More
