Sernis, the Portugese company has developed a solar powered system SRL-SM30 that detects vehicles’ speeds and informs drivers about it, the idea being that once drivers become aware they are over speeding, they will change their driving behaviour. The system has a CW (Continuous Wave) Doppler Radar that detects vehicles at speeds ranging from 16km/hr to 199km/hr. It has a ...

The Uttar Pradesh Transport Department has introduced online payment of taxes for vehicles registered in other states and entering the state for commercial trips on temporary permits. The vehicle owners in fact can pay the tax from their home states, even before making the trip by logging onto the department’s website vahan.up.nic.in/upcheckpost. This avoids unnecessary, time-consuming trips of government offices. ...

The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has proposed a plan to redevelop six bus terminuses in Maharashtra – Aurangabad, Karad, Nashik, Panvel, Akola and Ratnagiri. The redeveloped bus terminuses will have passenger waiting lounges, toilets and parking spaces for auto rickshaws & private vehicles on the ground floor and commercial establishments on the upper floors. The corporation will provide ...

SU Toll Road Pvt Ltd, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Reliance Infrastructure has begun operations and collection of toll on the Salem-Ulundurept road in Tamil Nadu. The seventh road project of Reliance Infrastructure, the Salem-Ulundurept road widening project (from two lanes to four lanes) has been executed on a Build-Operate-Transfer basis. The road links 79 villages with Chennai, Bengaluru ...

Karl Slym has been appointed as Managing Director, Tata Motors. He will lead company operations in India as well as international markets such as South Korea, Thailand, Spain, Indonesia and South Africa. Before taking up this assignment Slym was President and Managing Director of General Motors (GM), India. He also has been the Executive Vice President and Board Member, SGMW ...

IRB has emerged as the preferred bidder for a project to convert a 102.3km stretch of the Ahmedabad-Vadodara section of NH-8 from the existing two lanes into a six-lane highway. It has also become the preferred bidder for improvement of a 93.3km stretch of the existing Ahmedabad Vadodara Expressway. Both the projects are being offered by the NHAI (National Highways ...

Traffex 2013 – the 26th international traffic engineering, road safety, parking and highway maintenance exhibition will take place in Birmingham, UK from April 16 – 18. The Exhibition will be co-located with Parkex, Europe’s largest dedicated parking exhibition. The combined Traffex and Parkex Exhibition will provide visitors with the unique opportunity to see over 500 exhibitors from the world of ...

Paytm, a service provider for online mobile and DTH recharges has introduced online recharge facility for users of the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway toll plaza. These users can now recharge their smart tags through the Paytm portal. Paytm is also offering attractive deals and discounts on popular consumer brands with every recharge. About 100,000 smart tag users of the expressway and 60% ...

Reliance Infrastructure is looking to tap opportunities in the vast road sector. About 21 projects, worth about र 40,000 crore have been short listed by the company. Reliance Infrastructure is already in the process of developing 11 road projects with a total outlay of र 11,000 crore. Out of these, five projects are operational and generating revenue, while the other ...

Construction work on a trilateral highway connecting the north-eastern states of India with Myanmar and Thailand has begun. The trilateral highway, which is expected to complete by 2016 will play an important role in promoting and boosting trade and investment flows between the three countries, allowing freight and container trucks to move across the borders from India to Myanmar and ...