With popular models from major auto makers failing crash tests, the Indian road ministry has made basic side and frontal crash tests mandatory for all new models by 2017, and for the existing ones by 2019, to decide the ‘crashworthiness’ and level of safety an automobile can offer. Moreover, the tests will no longer have to be taken outside the ...

Archohm design studio, having begun its journey into the domain of architectural practice with a toll plaza projects, has now become an authority on this uncommon typology of the built environment.  The latest in line is the Ahmedabad-Vadinagar-Maliya toll plaza. Principal Architect Sourabh Gupta, Director of the firm briefs. In the state of Gujarat, archohm was commissioned to design eleven ...

An analysis by Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada indicates that some benefits of autonomous vehicles such as independent mobility for affluent non-drivers, may begin in the 2020s or 2030s, but most impacts, including reduced traffic and parking congestion (and therefore reduced road and parking facility supply requirements), independent mobility for low-income people (and therefore reduced need to subsidize transit), increased ...

NHAI has signed Memorandum of Understanding with National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) under Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and North East Centre for Technology Application and Research (NECTAR) for use of spatial technology for monitoring and managing National Highways. The use of satellite data and geospatial technology will be useful in providing inputs in highway and infrastructure projects for preparation ...

Information Technology is playing an ever more crucial role in many sectors of modern society offering the most important solutions that we have today to efficiently help increase capacity, safety and security among other aspects. This is even more in public transport sector for which IT tools are potentially always available, widely applicable and actually already well integrated in many ...

The Mohali Municipal Corporation has made an offer to the police to install CCTV cameras to regulate traffic and ensure enforcement of the traffic rules in the city. Generally, drivers remove their helmets or seat belts soon after entering Mohali from Chandigarh the traffic police often fail to check on them. Mayor Kulwant Singh said that as Mohali was located ...

Transportation contributes 5-10% of the GDP in most countries and plays the key role in poverty reduction, inclusive growth, and sustainable development. It is therefore a key aspect of any city development. Like all other markets, even the transportation sector is undergoing transformational changes driven by technological advances, new business models, and new ways of engaging highly empowered citizens. Transportation ...

The Delhi Metro has become the first metro service in the country to be certified with the prestigious International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) rating for efficient energy management. Under this, as many as 15 stations of the Delhi Metro and one of its depots have been selected for this rating, enabling Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to save 13,730 MVAH ...

Larsen & Toubro’s transportation infrastructure unit has secured orders from the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for construction of a six-lane elevated corridor from Chandigarh to Kharar in Punjab. This project is to be completed in 30 months and involves the construction of 10.18 km of four-lane dual carriageway along with three elevated corridors of a cumulative length of ...

An Intelligent Traffic system can not only relieve Indian roads from heavy congestion issues, but can also help to enforce road safety rules in a more efficient manner, eventually having a positive effect on the number of road accidents. If India wants to implement comprehensive road safety programmes, ITS should also be introduced in smaller cities. There is still a ...