Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Madrid last year exceeded the legal limit of contamination set by the EU with an annual average of 44 micrograms of suspended particles of less than 10 micrometers, or PM10, four micrograms over the continental watershed. Read More
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Eindhoven and the other six were chosen from a list of 21 by a team of academics. They describe the Eindhoven metropolitan area as ‘the industrial heart of the Netherlands’, pointing out it the number of business start-ups has grown 275% over 10 years and it is among the top three regions in Europe for
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Norway and Britain have signed a partnership document agreeing to work together on oil and gas exploration, on the development of offshore wind farms and on a North Sea power grid. The agreement was signed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg, following a summit meeting meeting in London on Wednesday, with leaders
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
In the wake of winter-related chaos on Germany’s railroad system, Transportation Minister Peter Ramsauer is planning far-reaching reforms to the national railway operator Deutsche Bahn. More money will be made available for infrastructure investment, and a long-planned privatization of the company looks likely to be watered down. Read More
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
The Board of Directors of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) proudly announces the appointment of Dr. Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah to a three-year term as Editor-in-Chief of the URISA Journal. Dr. Thakuriah is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy in the University of Illinois at Chicago. Read More
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
The European Union’s troubled Galileo satellite navigation (satnav) project needs 1.9 billion euros (2.5 billion dollars) on top of the 3.4 billion euros already budgeted for it, a top official from the bloc admitted on Tuesday. Galileo is intended to make Europe independent of the existing US GPS satnav system and to rival networks planned
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
The government plans to set up a 560 million pound fund to develop green local transport schemes over the next four years, it said Wednesday. “A good transport system is vital in our efforts to deliver two key government priorities: to help grow the economy and to reduce carbon emissions,” said Transport Minister Norman Baker.
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA’s Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the only facility capable of reproducing Mercury’s hellish environment for a full-scale spacecraft. Read More
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
A Hastoe Housing Association development in Wimbish, Essex is on target to be the first rural affordable Passivhaus development in the UK. The aim is to complete the scheme this Spring, then receive accreditation from the Passivhaus Institut (Germany) by early Summer 2012. The scheme has received investment from the HCA via a grant of
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Mass transportation performs important economic, social, and environmental functions in cities, ranging from providing basic mobility services in urban areas, towns, developing cities, securing the viability of dense business districts, to meeting all the transportation requirements for those unable to use automobiles, to reducing the negative impacts of traffic congestion. The decisions on what services
