By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The South Australian and Victorian governments have gone on the offensive to embed Australian made cars into public sector procurement plans for fleet purchasing as a way to prop-up struggling local automotive manufacturers. South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill and Victorian Premier Denis Napthine have demanded that a majority of […]
22 April, 2013
By Paul Hemsley The Queensland government is following Victoria’s footsteps to make open level crossings for trains and cars safer. Last month, the Victorian government announced it would trial communications technology to warn drivers of approaching trains in a three year $5.5 million project. Now Queensland is implementing a similar scheme for an even smaller […]
17 September, 2012
By Paul Hemsley The Victorian government will test if communications technology can warn car drivers that trains are approaching at railway crossings. Before they hit them. After some 600 collisions between trains and cars at railway crossings over the past decade, state transport and safety agencies now want to test systems to determine if the […]
27 August, 2012
By Lilia Guan Lane Cove Council’s general manager, Craig Wrightson told Government News, it has released an iPhone application to help local residents find more car parking spaces in the shopping centre at Lane Cove Village. The idea for the app came off the back of the council’s initial attempts to install a […]
31 August, 2011
By Lilia Guan Designed by Nissan North America, the NV200 has been chosen as the winner of New York City’s Taxi of Tomorrow competition. The goal of the, two-year-long Taxi of Tomorrow procurement process was to leverage the buying power of the combined taxicab industry to produce a taxicab that will offer both passengers […]
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