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INTERNATIONAL standardization of I vehicle lighting regulations, road accident procedure and various road traffic laws was urged by the World Touring and Automobile Organization (O.T.A.) at its meeting in Munich.
Representatives of the U.K., France, Italy, West Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg agreed to send to the Conference of European Ministers of Transport a recommended draft international code regarding vehicle lighting.
This foresees the greater use in builtup areas of 'parking lights for moving vehicles ' and a further restriction on dipping in such areas.
In the case of accidents O.T.A. wants an inter-European regulation under which all damaged vehicles mist he removed as rapidly as possible from the road. The regulation lays down that all unhurt persons in an accident involving injury must render first aid and that warning signs must be erected on the site of all accidents. '
In The Argentine the government has sold all state-run bus services in Greater Buenos Aires. Forty-nine routes were concerned, one of which has been bought by a drivers' co-operative and the others by private interests. The private operators are to introduce the one-man bus system. The state will continue to operate trolleybus services in the city.
From Paris comes the news that on December 18, small -one-man buses will be introduced into the transport system with a view to encouraging motorists to park their cars outside the city, centre and continue to their destinations on this new
bus service. .
The vehicles, with 20 seats and 22 standing places, will operate a six-minute service on two routes, with a flat fare of 50 centimes, coins to be dropped in a slot beside the driver.
Absolute priority for traffic coming from the right was introduced on Belgian roads this month. •
The Austrian hauliers' . trade body, Fachverbandsausschuis des -Lastfuh rwerksgewerbes, at' a meeting in Graz, urged abolition of the current Austrian transportation tax, which they see as "unsuitable regulation of rail-road competition." They asked for the introduction of a new tax taking actual transportation performance into account.
The organization is also to Seek alterations in the goods transport law, the road traffic law and the rate regulations, and will request the easing of the week-end goods vehicle driving ban recently enforced in Austria.
A Dutch Parliamentary report asks the Dutch Government to bring in controls to cover "disguised business transport in the form of the transportation, against payment, of small . parties of workmen and other small groups in mini-buses and cars in Holland.