Siemens has won a big contract to tame the traffic in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's fifth largest city. The system aims to coordinate traffic signal timing to increase traffic flow and reduce delay at road junctions, in a bid to improve the efficiency of the transport network. Wuhan, like a lot of China's second-tier cities, has seen an explosion of traffic growth in recent years...   more »

China seems hell-bent on consigning the bicycle to the history books, but a growing number of cities in the west are doing just the opposite by adopting bike-friendly policies that encourage people to leave their car at home and take the bike instead. EngagingChina was intrigued to hear on a recent trip to Paris of the Velib initiative...   more »