India is a land of walkers. An estimated 45 million walk to work daily, compared with a mere 54 lakhs who use motorised personal transport. However, the infrastructure that is in place for road users is skewed against non-motorised transport (NMT), either pushing pedestrians to the margins of the road networks, or even worse, compelling them to jostle for space ...
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15-Minute Cities: Reimagining Mobility
To optimise sustainable urban living, the 15-minute city concept is hailed as a spatial development model to help foster a more local, healthy, equitable and sustainable way of life. In an interview with TrafficInfraTech, Prof Carlos Moreno, Associate Professor, Panthéon Sorbonne University, and Co-founder & Scientific Director, ETI chair speaks on the 15-Minute city model and how it can positively ...
Case Study: iROADS – An indispensable solution for Efficient Road Asset Management
iROADS is a sophisticated infrastructure asset management system and decision-making tool for all infrastructure assets, delivering a single solution software tool for asset owners and operators. TRL Technologies India Private Limited (a joint venture between TRL UK and Experion Technologies India) makes this software solution accessible to the globe. The ingenious tool helps in the management of road assets with ...
Steel Slag Road for Durable Infrastructure
India is having world’s second largest road network in terms of length. Every year for maintenance and construction of this vast road network around 1.2 billion tonnes of natural aggregates are required. This huge demand of natural aggregates is meted out through unsustainable quarrying and mining of stone aggregates in many areas, which is causing serious ecological impacts on natural ...
Tolling Technology: How the future might look?
Toll payments on National Highways have moved digital with the introduction of FASTag. However, we still see sizeable queues during peak hours at some of the busy toll plazas. Hence, the government is exploring mechanisms that will reduce the delay at toll plazas even further. Rajesh Krishnan, Director, ITS Planners & Engineers Pvt Ltd explains about two such technologies – ...
Prama India Indigenous Innovations in Video Security Products and Vertical Solutions
PRAMA India story is an evolving success saga of an Indian security brand, which created a new benchmark in indigenous manufacturing of video security products and vertical solutions. Founded on the core belief to put India on the global map for video security products, PRAMA is India’s largest and one of the first companies representing the motto of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ ...
C-V2X: Enabling Intelligent Transport Systems and enhancing driving experience
With increasing amounts of automation, the transport systems become more connected, integrated, and intelligent in handling complex combinations of situations to create an improved experience for people. The vehicles themselves have been in a state of transformation with more intelligence within the vehicle\ Most of us may have encountered some form of automation and intelligence in the traffic management systems ...
Interview: Excellence through Technology, Innovation and Strategy
A global leader with more than two decades of operations, Norden Communication serves as a one-stop shop for all the ELV (Extra Low Voltage) needs of any enterprise. Every business vertical has unique needs in terms of CCTV, Public Address Systems, Access Control Systems, Fire Alarm Systems, UPS, Emergency Signboards, and passive solutions, and Norden caters best to these through ...
Interview: Accelerating Indian Security Industry’s Growth Story Setting up an agenda with a clear Roadmap
Ashish P Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India Pvt Ltd, talks to Trafficinfratech about how customized video security solutions galvanize his ‘Make in India’ vision. He is enthusiastic sharing his views on taking digital transformation & connectivity to new heights with 5G technology, and plans to pursue his vision for seamless security networks that will help secure the highways. ...
Beyond Tech: Arcadis IBI’s approach to Urban Development with Cohesion
Technology innovations in urban development worldwide are helping cities cope with the gap between infrastructure services and population but they are still struggling to ensure resiliency or sustainability. Urban development systems need to adopt a holistic approach for seamless integration between technology innovations, city design, environmental planning and management which are vital to the city’s development. IBI Group is a ...
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