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My campaign starts here: I think it's time that we should stigmatise those that are single.

At any conference or exhibition, it tends to be the ad libs and asides, the departures from the scripted or official lines, which are the most telling. In mid-February, ITS-UK's Road User Charging Interest Group met in London. The event was no exception to that statement. Keith Mortimer, the Group's chairman, and his colleagues put together one of the better programmes on charging and tolling that I've seen in recent years. Sadly, however, the very positive presentations on deployments and technological pro

The old line has it that if something seems too good to be true, then it probably is.

The route of the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, the world's longest-running motoring event, passes right by the end of the street where I live.

Too often, when I sit down to write one of these forewords, I worry that things are becoming a little circular.

Fundamentally, as human beings, we tend to want much the same things

A friend of mine's wife used to work on a ladies' magazine.

By comparison with the snow paralysis which hit North America at the beginning of February, and the conditions endured by much of Northern Europe this last winter, it took only the lightest dusting of snow to bring the UK transport system slipping, sliding and then juddering to a halt in January.

The old line has it that if something seems too good to be true, then it probably is. Chances are, for instance, that that 'top-quality' set of carving knives on offer at a knock-down price in the back pages of the Sunday papers or the 'only-for-a-selected-few' email offer from some self-proclaimed expert on stocks and shares simply aren't the unmissable opportunities they purport to be.

For twenty-some years I lived in Crawley in south-east England.

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.

Road safety continues to improve according to the latest figures from the US Department of Transportation. The recorded data shows that in 2009 the US had the lowest level of traffic fatalities since 1954.

NDI Recognition Systems has launched the ST200, a new rapid deployment Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system designed for use in a wide range of covert and overt applications in both mobile and static modes.

Bosch Security Systems is now offering a solution for enhancing CCTV surveillance with Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR).

Communication Networks (ComNet) is introducing the first of its ValueLine models to satisfy the demand for a cost-effective line of fibre-optic products.

Cybit has just launched a new 'suite of mapping tools for its Fleetstar-Online solution'.