EDITORIAL
5. Argentina: ¿a suicidal country?

FAIRS AND CONGRESSES & CONGRESOS
6. Conferences, courses, expositions and seminars.
8. Berlin will be the venue for the world's largest international exposition of railways.

ROAD SAFETY
10. The newly appointed Traffic General Director for the city of Buenos Aires analyzed the advantages of a driving license based on a scoring system.

TRANSPORT
14. Buenos Aires traffic measurement.

ARGENTINA'S CURRENT AFFAIRS
16. Argentina's President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, opened the new vial works on
route 36.
20. Updates and developments from the leading companies in the building, transport, traffic and vial sectors, which took part in Expovial Argentina 2007.

COVER STORY: INFRAESTRUCTURA Y TRANSPORTE
34. "The vial network is the circulatory system of the geographic organ", stated the Minister of Public Works of Panama
38. Coverage of the XIV Ibero-LatinAmerican Congress on Asphalt, held in La Habana, Cuba.
46. An update of the condition of Cuban paved routes and of the investment plan now in place.
48. Engineer Carlos Eduardo Arredondo Arango talked at CILA about the segregation of asphalted mixtures and the construction of a transversal road in The Caribbean.

INTERNATIONAL
52. Barcelona's public transport and its metropolitan area outlook.
56. The advantage of small-sized companies as an effective social solution to the preservation of roads.
60. Features of the ecologic road A-381 in Andalucía, Spain.
66. The Chilean port of Valparaiso takes stock of its annual results.

INSTITUTIONAL
72. The Foundation for the Professional Training of Transport elaborated on its performance during 2007.
74. Various end-of-year celebrations took place.

MACHINNERY
78. Panamericana: THE ROUTE OF EQUIPMENT.

VIEWPOINT
80. MA. José Luis Losada gave his opinion on logistics trends, risks and costs.

TECHNOLOGY
84. The Undersecretary of the Public Works and Communications Secretariat from República Dominicana, Engineer Mayobanex Escoto, made a breakdown of the current state of bridges in his country.
88. Priming emulsions: An assessment of their capacity of penetrations.
94. Criteria for the assessment of pavements.

UPDATES
96. The latest optic fiber piece of equipment to increase safety of all kinds of civil works or industrial installations.
100. Description of a device placed in Pueyrredón Bridge to improve this vial infrastructure safety.
102. Innovative technology to communicate with drivers, thereby speeding traffic.

I+D
104. Products, Systems and Technologies of the sector.

ON & OFF
108. Relevant information, announcements, presentations and updates.

DNV
112. Works underway through CReMA system.

READERS SERVICES
113. List of sponsors for the current edition of Vial.

ON THE CLOSURE
114. FIA and ACA rally together for road safety.