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. ...
IL&FS Financial Services and Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) have launched a ? 5300 crore fund to invest in road, ports and power projects. The fund which has been cleared by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) will raise funds from domestic and foreign investors. LIC is likely to hold a stake of up to 30% in ...
The Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011?2020), launched in 2011 by the United Nations, is an opportunity for countries to stop and reverse the current trend of alarming increase in road accidents. A one-year progress update by Dr Etienne Krug, Director, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organisation. On May 11, 2011 governments around the ...
Delhi faces a chronic shortage of residential parking space as noticed in a survey conducted by the authors. After a detailed study, they recommend an overhaul of parking policies, a shift from personal to shared parking and integrating parking with the interchange points of the public transport networks as far as possible. Delhi is one of the few metropolitan cities ...
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