The development of Technology and its applications is making roads ‘Smart’ and fit for the future. We are entering a period that promises a step change in road operations, especially in the developed world. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) enables the safe and effective movement of people, goods and data and addresses safety, congestion, and journey-time reliability amongst other things. More ...

Cooperative ITS (C-ITS) is a subset of ITS which involves communicating and sharing information between ITS-stations (such as personal devices, vehicles, roadside equipment and the back-office) to give advice or facilitate actions with the objective of improving safety, sustainability, efficiency and comfort beyond the scope of stand-alone systems. Trials on such systems are now being carried out in cities and ...

Naya Raipur Development Authority has given a contract to Schneider Electric India and IL&FS to develop Naya Raipur’s first greenfield integrated smart city. The project in Chhattisgarh’s capital will be run for five years after being developed by the two companies. Setting up hardware for sensors for data collection, enterprise control for the development authority to monitor and control the ...

Telengana government will be executing its flagship programme of Haritha Haram to turn national highways into green corridors. The event is set for the first week of July. Forest officials are planning to organize a mega event which will be joined by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao in Karimanagar district. Haritha Haram is a flagship programme to increase the 24 ...

Dr Amalendu Chatterjee, Co-founder & VP-Technology, Eximsoft International argues in favour of Robust Web Parking Portal (RWPP) for the parking industry. “Incremental addition of technologies may add some values but a big structural overhaul with a long term vision is necessary”, he says in this detailed piece on autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence for a new parking business model. Thanks ...

Improving safety continues to be the number one driving force behind enforcement solutions, combined with the global challenge to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the roads. The constant advancement of technology is seen in all walks of life and the enforcement market is certainly not isolated from this. The use of digital cameras has constantly ...

What role are technologies going to play in the maintenance of roads and highways constructed by the NHAI? I get mails and complaints from people regarding the poor operations and maintenance of certain stretches of highways which we have constructed. As long as we go with the traditional system of O & M, the Project Development Officer has to visit ...

L&T Construction has bagged orders worth Rs 2,552 crore across business segments. The transportation infrastructure and water effluent treatment businesses have jointly bagged an EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) order worth Rs 1,223 crore from Aurangabad Industrial Township Ltd (AITL), Maharashtra. The scope of work includes construction of roads, drains, bridges, potable water network, sewage and common effluent treatment plants, among ...

That the Government of India’s Smart City Mission is an ambitious and impressive initiative that will create 100 plus smart cities in India is a known fact by now. That the new cities, through best use of technology, will accelerate growth and improve the quality of life of people, is also evident. But what often gets overlooked in the entire ...

Parkbuzz Private limited is an e-parking service providing company. The app allow users to book a guaranteed parking space before reaching their destination with the help of Parkbuzz app and website. Parkbuzz also provides technological solutions to parking vendors which can be integrated in their existing system helping them improve the sales and transparency in the system. They provide both ...