John Austin, Managing Consultant, Austin Analytics, the UK, discusses the importance of public transport interchanges in Public Transport, best practices that need to be followed in their design and the benefits.

Public transport projects are often delayed or put on hold for a variety of reasons ? reasons that are often not based on the real problems of the project. Ranjit Gadgil, Programme Director of Pune-based Parisar, takes a look at Cost Benefit Analysis, a tool for evaluating transportation projects.

Personal Rapid Transit is a new light urban transport system based on small, automated, electric, driverless vehicles travelling on segregated guide ways. PRT is now becoming an accepted form of public transport to complement other modes in cities across Asia ? providing stand-alone systems and first mile, last mile connectivity. The world?s first operational system, at London Heathrow has proved a major success. The system is in operation in USA, UAE and South Korea as well.

The `10,000cr Alchemist Group is moving aggressively into road technologies with the launch of RB1 Grade-81 Pavement materials and Inorganic soil stabilizer. The group?s Vice Chairman, Maj. Gen (Retd) Anil Oberoi answered a few questions from TrafficInfraTech.

The authors take a look at Land Value Capture, a method of land-based financing for funding infrastructure improvements that is employed in the US, and holds promise for an emerging economy such as India.

Avantech Engineering Consortium Pvt Ltd offers Crash Cushions from Trinity Highway Products, USA. Crash cushions are energy absorbing devices that are fixed in front of ?black spots? on roads such as approaches to bridges, flyovers and toll plazas etc. to absorb an errant colliding vehicle?s kinetic energy and reduce the damage to the vehicle and occupants. Trinity crash cushions are ...

MC5600 Vehicle Classifier System from MetroCount precisely stores information of every axle of a vehicle, and with the included Traffic Executive software, provides information like the class, speed and gap of every vehicle. The MetroCount MC5600 combines state-of-the-art traffic logging hardware with powerful, yet easy-to-use software. The System includes the MC5600 Series Roadside Unit and MetroCount Traffic Executive Software as ...

LED Light Barrier Gate from Recon is powered by a 120W AC motor that runs on 220V. It has a protection grade rating of IP44. The boom is straight, square shaped and available in 3m and 4m options.

REDFLEXradarcam from Redflex is a flexible mobile speed enforcement radar designed for both tripod and in-vehicle mounting applications in all conditions. It is the first speed enforcement system to use dual radar technology to provide detection accuracy across up to six lanes of approaching or receding traffic. The speed radar accurately determines vehicle speed, while the tracking radar provides range ...

Came India recently launched Wing40, a motorised swing gate turnstile that is elegant, quiet and extremely fast. It is ideal for access control in hotels, banks, showrooms and establishment entrances. With a diameter of just 168mm, Wing40 contains the circuit board, power supply and electric brake incorporated in the device, which makes it easier and faster to install and adjust ...