Mumbai will get its first double-decker bridge on P D’Mello Road at CST that will have railway tracks and a motorway. The tracks will be constructed at an elevated level and cars will ply above that as the Eastern Freeway will be extended up from Orange Gate to GPO junction.The railway tracks will be at an elevated level because it ...

The Madras High Court has made wearing helmets by two-wheel riders compulsory. Justice N Kirubakaran passed the order after taking note of statistics provided by the Home Secretary that 6,419 people lost their lives in Tamil Nadu in 2014 alone as they failed to wear helmets while riding two-wheelers. The court suggested stringent measures, including impounding vehicles, till the violators ...

Mumbai International Airport has now acquired an advanced mobile command post vehicle or MCP. Mistral Solutions, a product design and engineering service company based in Bengaluru, is the provider of the vehicle to Bengaluru International Airport Limited and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai. The airport can now handle even a crash at the airport without loss of time. Besides, ...

Siemens is supplying the charging technology for hybrid buses used on a bus route in Stockholm. The buses, which are equipped with a combined electric-diesel drive system, were manufactured by Volvo Bus Cooperation, with which Siemens is cooperating on electric bus systems. Each bus’s electric motor has a maximum output of 150 kilowatts (kW) and gets its energy from a ...

The Delhi Metro has received its first train which is capable of running without a driver. The trains are manufactured at Changwan in South Korea. The trains will run on the upcoming Majlish Park-Shiv Vihar (Line 7 – 58.596 km) and Janakpuri West- Botanical Garden (Line 8 – 38.235 km) corridors of Phase 3. Both these corridors are expected to ...

The work on the much awaited 2.1km Dharamsala-McLeodganj ropeway is likely to start soon as the state government has issued letter of award to the Mumbai-based Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited. The ropeway will help in decongesting McLeodganj town which receives around 2.5 lakh domestic and foreign tourists annually.The state government is also planning to develop a parking near Kotwali ...

To enable transportation of bulk commodities from Jaigarh Port to the Digni station of Konkan Railway, a 33.7km railway corridor is being planned. JSW Jaigarh Port Ltd has signed a concession agreement with Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd for developing the corridor. The special purpose vehicle executing the project is Jaigarh Digni Rail Ltd. The project will come up through the ...

Jean-Hubert Wilbrod, President, Neavia technologies writes about video and radar technologies to track traffic offenders Wrong way drivers on highways or ramps are a challenge for road safety: Roughly one fatality each year every 1000km motorway over European roads. It is not the major cause accident, but is too much indeed. When a lorry carrying flammable products is impacted, it ...

Balraj Bhanot, Management Consultant, Chairman TEDC (BIS), Former Director ARAI and Chairman CMVR-TSC writes on the need for standardization in ITS technology Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is a wide field, and today, there is no single ownership to the subject in the country. The subject of ITS cuts across various ministries of the government like Transportation, Communication, Railways, Civil Aviation, ...

Following recent improvements in the field of eye-tracking, Australia based Shawsett Training and Safety is now doing trials on drive simulations using eye tracking training to provide a safer and more effective training. The major impact is to improve observation and risk awareness, an essential requirement when driving in busy Indian conditions. Steve Shaw, Managing Director, Shawsett Training and Safety ...