Monday, October 10th, 2011
China’s railways carried a record total of 67.3 million passengers from September 28 to October 7, the Ministry of Railways said on Saturday. According to Xinhua, many Chinese went on a travelling spree for the weeklong National Day holiday. The figure was up 5.8 percent over the same period last year, with a daily record of 8.9
Monday, October 10th, 2011
A new company spun off from German services group Bilfinger Berger is planning to brave the jumpy markets and raise £245m via a London float to invest in roads and defensive assets. Read More
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
A 13-member National Technical Committee on Spatial and Land Use Planning was, yesterday, inaugurated in Accra. The Committee has been tasked to provide policy direction and inputs of strategic national interest to the preparation of the Spatial Development Framework and ensure consistency with the National Development Agenda. The committee is also expected to provide a framework for
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
The State Aerogeodetic Center will soon open in Azerbaijan in the near future, Azerbaijani State Committee for Land and Cartography Chairman Garib Mammadov said today. The center will receive information from 37 satellite geodetic stations of the country for further processing. “A satellite geodetic network was established under the Real Estate Registration Project of the World Bank
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
The Angolan minister of Environment, Fátima Jardim, announced on Friday in Namibe Province that her department will create soon a trans-border zone for the protection of biodiversity, more precisely in the Iona National Park. According to the government official, who is on a work visit to this south-western province, a national directorate for biodiversity has already
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Recognising its success in implementing the latest, state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS) in all of its urban planning processes, the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) has received one of the highest possible ratings in the “2010 Abu Dhabi Stakeholder GeoMaturity Assessment” reported by the Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC) from the Executive
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
India’s military is considering using Russia’s Glonass satellite system for navigation and targeting, a leading Russian newspaper reported. Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov offered Delhi access to the system during a recent meeting with his Indian counterpart Arackaparambil Kurien Antony, Kommersant newspaper wrote. Glonass is a worldwide satellite navigation system similar to the US’ GPS system. Russia
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Two key government watchdogs warned Wednesday that a $40 billion project to revolutionize air travel still is at risk of costly delays, even as its congressional champions worried that funding cuts might set it back further. Sitting side by side at a House subcommittee hearing, the inspector general for theTransportation Department and a director at the Government Accountability Office said that initial management
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Network Rail has unveiled plans to invest £10.5bn to deliver faster, more frequent services for passengers and freight users under the next five-year control period that runs from 2014 to 2019. The investment plans include the construction of the Northern Hub, worth £560m, in order to deliver more than 700 extra services a day between Leeds,
Friday, October 7th, 2011
A new team of investors is set to resume construction of the massive NorthPoint development, a $2 billion mini-city between Cambridge and Boston that will bring thousands of new homes, a shopping complex, and offices to a former rail yard. Read More
