KritiiKal Solutions offers traffic data collection surveys and services under the brand name TRAZER (Traffic AnalyZer and EnumeratoR). TRAZER is used in a variety of applications such as planning of highways, toll lanes and city roads, ATCC (Automatic Traffic Counting and Classification)/AVCC (Automatic Vehicle Counting and Classification) applications, traffic census, traffic monitoring, traffic pattern analysis, driver behaviour analysis as well ...

CAME, a leading manufacturer of automated access control products has launched its new Gard 3 line of barriers. These are especially suited to handle quick passages in public parking lots, hospitals, motorways and any other facilities with high traffic density, even in severe weather. Being made of either galvanised steel or AISI 304 steel with epoxy powder coatings, they can ...

The Tamil Nadu government is planning to expedite the process for land acquisition for development of its highways by legislating a new Highways Act. It is finding it difficult to acquire land for broadening the state highways and constructing bypasses with about 3,202 hectares of land out of a total of 7,874 hectares needed, still remaining to be acquired. The ...

The Union government plans to progressively introduce BS (Bharat Stage)-IV compliant fuels in 50 more cities by 2015. In 2012 BS-IV fuel was introduced in seven cities – Puducherry, Mathura, Vapi, Jamnagar, Ankleshwar, Hissar and Bharatpur. BS-IV fuel was first made available in metro cities such as Mumbai, Delhi/NCR, Kolkata and Chennai and some tier 2 cities such as Hyderabad, ...

A report by a Parliamentary panel, the Committee on Estimates, has estimated that an investment of र200 crore is needed every day for the next 15-20 years to upgrade and widen highways in the country to international standards. The project to implement this would cost about rupees three lakh crore and would put projects for bidding in seven phases. The ...

Transition – the first flying car being developed by US-based Terrafugia Inc – has undergone its inaugural test flight. The test saw the car flying for eight minutes at an altitude of about 1,400 feet. The car can run 70mph on the road while in the air it can fly at 115mph. The car, which runs on normal automotive fuel, ...

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore is working on plans to encourage the travelling public to use public transport more often, reduce the use of cars, and travel more during off-peak hours. As a part of the initiative, the agency has appointed a consultant to design workplace-based travel plan programmes for three organisations, and to assist three others with ...

The Indian Railways plans to introduce on a pilot basis a pan-India, multi-purpose smart card known as ‘Go-India’. The card will be first tried out on the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah sectors, including the Allahabad railway station. In yet another initiative, the Railways has completed a feasibility study, the first phase of a project, to devise methods to reduce emissions from ...

A comprehensive, public and global database of BRT systems in the world was recently launched by three global organisations – Embarq, Across Latitudes and Cultures – Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence (ALC-BRT CoE) and the International Energy Agency (IEA). BRT systems have been implemented in about 134 cities all over the world ranging from Beijing to Bogota, and serve ...

Eicher Motors has launched a new truck – the Eicher 11.14 — that is expected to bridge the gap between the 12/13 tonne and the 16 tonne segments. The 14.5 GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight) tonne truck, the company claims, has best-in-class fuel efficiency. The new truck combines the benefits of a heavy duty truck with the savings of a medium ...