Firms may invest in light rail, traffic lights

24 January 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Investment / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
congestion / Council for the Development of Cambodia / Infrastructure / Kep Chuktema / Kyosan Electric / light rail system. traffic light network / Phnom Penh / Technology / Toshiba Corp / Traffic / transit / transport

Japanese technology companies Toshiba Corp and Kyosan Electric have met with Phnom Penh Municipality to discuss investing in a light rail system and new traffic light network. According to an announcement on the municipality’s website yesterday, Kazutoshi Fukuda, managing director of Kyosan Electric, and Yasuyoshi Mugiya, senior managing director for Toshiba, met with municipal governor Kep Chuktema on Wednesday to present technologies that could ameliorate Phnom Penh’s traffic congestion and improve the city’s transit infrastructure…