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A Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled by a standard production passenger car on a single tank of fuel.

WebTech Wireless has won a contract award for its NextBus intelligent transportation system with the Conseil Intermunicipal de Transport Laurentides (CITL), which provides intra-urban bus services to several communities near Montreal, in Canada.

Continental, the international automotive supplier, has developed a system for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles which will immediately shut off the high-voltage battery in the event of a collision, enabling emergency service personnel to come to the aid of accident victims without the risk of suffering an electric shock.

Telmap has introduced multi-modal routing as part of its involvement with the In-Time project that will pilot and validate an innovative pan-European approach to Real Time Traffic and Travel Information (RTTI) services.

Frito-Lay North America division, the US$13 billion convenient foods business unit of PepsiCo, has started rolling out some of its fully electric delivery trucks in Columbus.

A coalition of leading manufacturers, contractors and associations from various industries called the Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) has sent an open letter to US Secretary for Transporation, Ray LaHood, expressing concerns over a major threat to GPS signal accuracy.

A UK firm has struck a major deal with China Highway Engineering Consulting Group Company (CHECSC) for road maintenance materials.

Three major new expressway projects will be offered under the PPP model in the Philippines.

Indonesia's Government is planning to launch 100 public private partnership projects worth a total of US$473 billion. The projects have been announced at the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on PPP for Infrastructure Development 2010.

Tougher testing standards are being introduced in the US to measure vehicle crash performance. The new tests are focusing strongly on side impacts, with the introduction of a new pole impact category.