Collaborative crowd-sourced data streams and free-to-use traffic information platforms, can optimize traffic flows to benefit all road stakeholders. Cities now face severe mobility challenges, and with many across the globe increasing in size, traffic challenges are also becoming greater, Drivers in London, for example, can expect to spend 38% of their travel time stuck in traffic at any time of ...
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ITS Innovations for Future Mobility
Healthy, Safe and Ecological Road Transport, Mobility and Energy use for better Sustainability in Finland with Intelligent Transportation Systems (HERMES) is authored by Josef Czako, CEO of Moving Forward Consulting for the Ministry of Transport and Communication (MINTC) Finland. The study shall serve as a thinking paper and give orientation for the upgrade the Mobility of People and Goods in ...
ITS for Comprehensive Mobility for Gandhi Nagar
This study done by Proff Dr PK Sarkar, Head- Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) in 2015 along with the students and faculties of SPA aims to address comprehensive mobility aspect of the capital city of Gujarat, Gandhi Nagar, with reference to policies & strategies for developing sustainable transport infrastructure and ensure its transportation operation & ...
Addressing Mobility Challenges in Hill Cities
Endowed with natural beauty and hilly terrain, the state Mizoram shares 404kms long border with Myanmar (Burma) in the East, and 318kms long with Bangladesh in the West making it a strategic location for international trade. The hills are a perfect holiday destination. However, when it comes to urban mobility, the challenges are quite enormous. With special focus to the ...
Innovative Parking Solutions
Today parking management and parking infrastructure planning has become as essential as management of traffic. Techsture Technologies with its experience in intelligent transport systems has evolved parking systems that are configurable to wide variety of project needs, ranging from simple parking system to automated with cloud based system to meet your parking needs. One case study here exemplifies how parking ...
Editors Page DEC 2016 – JAN 2017
India is expected to leapfrog the world in digital payment technology said, industry experts at a Huddle 2017 session on “Cashless India: A road map for the future. Going cashless is imperative for India to ignite growth among 400 million people. Mobile technologies and services are set to give a sense of comfort for the people especially while travelling. This ...
Crash barriers, Yes. Implementation, Difficult
For the last four to five years, Trafficinfratech has been bringing to the forefront the importance of installing crash barriers along the highways/express ways. Despite the chain of accidents on the 540km long Mumbai-Goa Highway and 95km long Mumbai-Pune Expressway, we have not been able to assure safety to their users. Now joining the dangerous stretches is Eastern Freeway, a ...
Designing Mobility in Smart City
Seamless travel, smart corridors, dynamic collection & use of data… all parts of designing Smart Mobility. However, equally important are health of the people. Carbon footprints and above all a holistic approach say Guy Perry, City & Strategy, Essel Infra Projects, Thomas Meyer, Director Sales & Business Development, Gevas Software, Prasun Agrawal, Founding Partner, Gaia Smart Cities, Prashun Dutta, Advisor, ...
Wire Rope Safety Barrier
Avantech Engineering Consortium Pvt Ltd introduces a wire rope/ cable safety barrier developed and manufactured by the US based Trinity Highway Products. CASSTM , a wire rope or cable safety barrier is a flexible type of longitudinal barrier that offers softer impact to a crashing vehicle and its occupants at the time of crash compared to crash with a metal ...
Panoramic Camera
Hikvision’s PanoVU series is an all-in-one solution which integrates multiple sensors into the one unit, eliminating the need for video stitching software. The series can capture panoramic images as well as close-up images to give consideration to both panorama and details. The panaromic images are captured by four or eight sensors, which could realize 1800 /3600 panorama monitoring. The design ...