The Pune police will make wearing helmets compulsory for motorists riding two wheelers. Before enforcing the new rule, the city police will conduct an extensive awareness campaign to educate motorists and commuters. The police will also distribute helmets to 2,000 police personnel as a part of the campaign. A CD on traffic awareness has also been launched on the occasion ...

The Indian Railways has launched RailRadar, an online application to help passengers track real time movement of trains. RailRadar is an interactive map on Google that can be accessed through the railway website trainenquiry.com. The application has been developed by the Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) in collaboration with RailYatri.com. About 6,500 trains can be tracked in real-time using ...

Toyota Motor Company is recalling 7.4 million cars and trucks worldwide due to a problem of defective power window switches in the vehicles. The defective switches can stick, cause smoke and potentially cause fires. The switches get sticky due to wear over time; this combined with the grease applied to them at the manufacturing stage causes them to overheat. The ...

Bombardier Transportation has announced it will supply diesel locomotives to Electromotive Diesels (EMD) for export to Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. Under an agreement signed between the two companies Bombardier will manufacture components such as under-frames and bogies and assemble the locomotives at its Savli plant in Gujarat. EMD will provide the technology for engineering and quality control and ...

The Assam Public Works Road Department (PWRD) has launched a Green Road Mission to promote use of environment friendly technology for road construction. The programme is being carried out in collaboration with the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) and bitumen manufacturing company Bitchem Asphalt Technologies (BATL). The initiative uses cold mix technology (CMT) instead of the conventional hot mix technology ...

Wessx Water, a water supply and sewerage utility company in Somerset, UK has launched a modified Volkswagen Beetle car, christened Bio-Bug, running on methane gas produced from human waste. The methane is produced using the process of anaerobic digestion in which bugs, break down bio-degradable material (in this case human waste) in the absence of oxygen to produce the gas. ...

Jagdeep Desai, Architect and Secretary & Founder Trustee, Forum for Improving Quality of Life in Mumbai, feels our laws are not inadequate but often, the enforcement agencies are inefficient. Here, he gives multi-pronged precautionary and remedial measures for road safety. Planning, administrative and enforcement authorities seem to make solutions as visible as possible to the public in order to show ...

Larsen & Toubro, the concessionaire for the elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project, has awarded South Korean company Hyundai Rotem the contract to supply engines and train sets for the metro rail. Hyundai Rotem will supply the rolling stocks nine months before each stage of the project is commissioned. Besides this, the tenders received for the supply of signalling and train ...

eToll System from Techsture Technologies is an Electronic Toll Collection System. eToll comprises a Lane System and a Plaza System integrated in an architecture that facilitates easy and accurate toll collection. eToll is engineered to meet difficult toll collection situations on Indian roads. It effectively stops revenue leakage, counteracts mischievous behaviors and has a high uptime performance of 99%. It ...

The Traffic Telematics Onboard Unit (QCG 21N) from EFKON India Pvt Ltd is a rugged and robust product that is well suited to the Indian trucking industry. The OBU is compact, tamperproof and without any external visible wiring. Fitted with internal GPS and GSM antennae, it provides accurate and cost-effective GPS location tracking of vehicles. Depending upon the subscription chosen ...