Santhana Selvan, Bicycle Mayor, Hyderabad speaks to Mangala Chandran How did you get into the spirit of cycling? What has been your journey? I used to love cycling during my school days in Madurai. My cycle was quite ordinary – no gears or fancy accessories! With this, I cycled around nearby villages. Initially, it was just for normal rides to ...

The Government of India’s concerted efforts to electrify India’s public transport, amplified by the recent incentives provided by the Department of Heavy Industries (DHI), have empowered states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat to scale the deployment of electric buses across cities. As on June 30, 2022, over 2,508 e-buses were operational across 40 Indian cities. Of the total e-buses ...

Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is actively involved in road construction in Upper Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh and is responsible for construction and maintenance of Roads Tama Chung Chung (TCC) – Taksing and others in terrain that is characterised by steep mountains and deep valleys. The young mountain slopes are not stable; resulting in frequent landslides, shooting rocks and erosion ...

In Kochi, inland transport was once the primary means of freight and passenger transport on the Vembanad Lake, and the system has been declining over the last few decades. There has been minimal investment and technology upgrades. With Kochi Water Metro, the scene is changing… With the Cochin Shipyard delivering two more boats, the Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) is ...

World Economic Forum-led Road Safety 2.0 pilots also reveal that over 80% of accidents are due to human errors and a majority can be prevented with the use of technology to compensate for human limitations, states, Akhilesh Srivastava, World Economic Forum, Leading Road Safety 2.0 in India. Road safety has always been a complex and multifaceted issue. But despite many ...

The key elements of the driving process are driver, vehicle, and driving environment in which the driver plays the pivotal role. The human eyes provide vital information about visual behaviour. Studying the driver’s gaze behaviour is important to improve driving safety conditions and, consequently, to enhance the general traffic safety. An analysis by Dr. A Mohan Rao, Senior Principal Scientist, ...

Zavod Prodmash of Russia, is a leading manufacturer of material for road sector structures like guard rails and hot dip galvanized products. Timothy Popov, Head of Exports, JSC, says the company participation in the forthcoming TrafficInfraTech Expo will help to gain a better understanding of the Indian market and should stimulate the interest of Indian consumers to Russian manufacturers. Zavod ...

Wire Rope Safety Barrier is light and cost effective; we need to innovate its usage to help reduce fatalities, road accidents, says Bharat Anand, Partner, Safety First while talking to Valencia Fernandes What is the importance of the use of Wire Rope Barriers in the context to Indian Road Safety? Wire Rope Safety Barriers (WRSB) are a fairly old product ...

TRL Technologies, a joint venture between TRL Software and Experion Technologies, is showcasing different traffic management solutions at TrafficInfraTech Expo 2022 Managing road network with iROADS™ iROADS™ is a sophisticated asset management tool that provides a user-friendly ‘one stop shop’ for all road asset monitoring and forward planning needs. It includes a suite of interconnected toolkits that focus on key ...

Beltech AI’s Prime & Signature product is Artificial Intelligence Driven Traffic Violation Detection, e-Challan Enforcement System & AI Driven Integrated Traffic Management System. Beltech AI Business Model: Offering DFBOOT – Design Finance Build Own Operate and Transfer or BOOT or PPP model on revenue sharing basis with Govt Depts. like ULB’s, Smart City, Traffic Police, NHAI, Ministry of Transports etc., ...