Sadbhav Engineering has bagged a ? 12 billion contract from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to develop four lanes on a 98.81km stretch of NH-10 in Haryana. The project has a concession period of 22 years and will be executed on a design-build-finance operate-and-transfer (DBFOT) basis under phase III of the National Highways Development Project. Another project it ...

FLIR Systems Inc, a provider of thermal imaging systems, automotive night vision system, and personal vision thermal cameras recently acquired Traficon International NV, a leading provider of intelligent video detection solutions for traffic applications which include automatic incident detection, traffic data collection and intersection vehicle & pedestrian presence detection. After the acquisition, the company expects its thermal imaging technology to ...

ZF Friedrichshafen AG?s new plastic engine mount is being used in Renault-Nissan?s electric as well as small and compact cars. The plastic engine mount is a high performance product that dampens vibrations as effectively as the earlier rubber-metal versions but is approximately 25% lighter. The engine mount housing uses fibber glass reinforced polyamide instead of aluminum continuous casting to reduce ...

Two new intelligent traffic detection systems will be launched at Traffex 2013 in Birmingham, UK by AGD, a UK-based traffic detection product designer and manufacturer. The detectors are based on a new range of frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) ranging radars and can be used in urban as well as semi-urban areas. They can be used to detect queues, speed, vehicle ...

Lutz Bertling has taken over as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Berlin-based Bombardier Transportation. Bertling was earlier President and COO of Eurocopter Group, a subsidiary of EADS. He had also held several key positions at Adtranz and Daimler Chrysler Rail Systems GmbH.

IL&FS has secured a ?. 14.36 billion contract from the National Highways Authority of India for the construction of a four-lane stretch on the Kiratpur Ner Chowk Section of National Highway 21 (NH-21) in the states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. The project, to be completed on EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) basis, will reduce travel time and cost of ...

Mumbai?s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) has been rated among the top global airports worldwide for 2012. It has been adjudged the third best airport worldwide for airports in the 25-40 million passengers per annum (mppa) category in the annual Airport Service Quality Awards announced by the Airports Council International (ACI). The ACI, an autonomous and independent body, conducts airport ...

Abu Dhabi has launched a new initiative to improve road safety – a new Crash Analysis and Reporting System (CARS). CARS will meet the Department of Transport (DOT)?s need for a scientific analysis to evaluate road accidents and road safety data. It has been developed by the UK based Transport Research Laboratory, and is part of a collaborative effort by ...

Delhi Metro is constructing long foot over bridges and ramps at most of its interchange stations on the Mukundpur-Shiv Vihar corridor to provide seamless connectivity for commuters. The FOBs and ramps, ranging from 70 to 200m in length, will be built at six out of the seven interchange stations on the 56km long corridor, the longest on the Metro. They ...

Reliance Infrastructure has launched a new online recharge facility for smart card users on the Hosur-Krishnagiri road corridor in Tamil Nadu. Launched through the company’s Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) HK Toll Road, the new facility will help reduce commuter travelling time, reduce congestion and improve traffic flow by allowing motorists to recharge their toll passes online through smart cards, thus ...