The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) successfully carried out a test run of Mumbai Monorail, India?s first mono rail. About 100 journalists travelled in a glittering four-coach modern pink train that looked more like a toy train than the 12 coach trains Mumbaikars are used to. The test run covered seven stations from Wadala to Chembur in an 8.80km ...
Steria (India) Ltd, the Indian arm of Paris headquartered IT Solutions and Services company, Steria, organised a roundtable conference in Mumbai on ?Modern Approach to 21st Century Transport Challenges?. The aim was to attain a thought leadership position on Steria?s point of view on achieving operational efficiency with optimised transport systems amongst policymakers at all levels in the Indian transport ...
KritiKal Solutions Pvt Ltd has launched a Video Signal Processing Unit 150T? 01. The video signal-processing unit is a low-cost system which provides an end-to-end platform for EO/IR sensor data acquisition, pre-processing, compression & streaming of video data. The indigenously designed generic platform around Xilinx Spartan 6 device enables real-time data acquisition from multiple sensors and cameras. It is a ...
Newcastle University in the UK, along with the Newcastle City Council, have developed a new technology to reduce traffic congestion. The new satellite navigation technology which will be tested in the city will enable motorists to adjust the speed of their vehicles in order to pass through a series of traffic lights on green. The project which is designed to ...
Switzerland based ADEC Technologies, a manufacturer of non-intrusive road traffic detectors has released a new traffic detector, the TDD1-MW75 with an increased range of 75m (250ft). The detector which works on the principle of Doppler shift more than doubles the range of its existing detector model ? the DD1-MW30 which works for short range applications. The TDD1-MW75 is flexible and ...
Image Sensing System (ISS), a US-based provider of above-ground detection and information management services for the ITS sector, has introduced a new rapid licence plate recognition technology, CitySync. CitySync uses a fast, accurate automatic licence plate recognition (ALPR) engine which reads a licence plate many times using multiple advanced methods for optical character recognition and detection of each plate. The ...
Rahul Asthana, Commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRD), has been appointed as a member of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) from March onwards. Asthana, who retires as MMRDA Commissioner on February 28, has been selected from a pool of about 114 retired officers such as joint secretaries of the state government and other candidates who had applied for ...
The Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Metrolink Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) was awarded the Best Display Award at the recently held Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show 2013. On display were MEGA?s miniature models of metro depots and stations. Other features of the Metro on display were the elevated structures, ballast-less tracks, driver less air-conditioned coaches, GPS based rail trackers, ...
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has awarded a major contract worth ? 546 crore to a consortium of ITD Cementation and Italian-Thai Development Public Company, Thailand. The project involves among other things, construction of a 9,305m long elevated metro track and eight elevated metro stations as well as architectural finishing and drainage work, with a completion time of 30 months. ...
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