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Automatic Traffic Counter cum Classifier

AJS Scale’s Phoneix II Automatic Traffic Counter cum Classifier (ATCC) system gives 98% accuracy with the help of its traffic counters like Loops, Piezo and Tube sensors inputs. The diamond-make Traffic Counter cum Classifier can classify more than 20 categories of vehicles. The traffic counting can be done using Loop and Piezo Sensors (intrusive type) or Pneumatic Tubes (Non-intrusive type). ...

Making bus ride accessible and affordable

Shreya Gadepalli – Founder and Managing Trustee Urban Works Institute, talks about a 5-point agenda to transform public transport in Bengaluru and other cities and the Bus4us campaign Can we create a bus service that both—an eight-year-old and an 80-year-old—can use without assistance? The Bus4us BLR campaign engages citizens to have more buses, better buses, and faster buses. Bengaluru buses ...

GPS based Tolling Solution for India

In May 2021, the National Highways Authority of India issued guidelines to strictly ensure that no more than ten seconds are spent as service time per vehicle, even during peak hours at every toll plaza in India. Considering the vehicular density of the roads, it becomes crucial to save time while the occupants are on commute. In order to enhance ...

Taming Shinkun La

The UT of Ladakh enjoys the significance of being located at the ancient Silk Route which passes through these regions and played a very vital role in the development of culture, religion, philosophy, trade and commerce in the past. The presence of resources is what makes Ladakh strategically very important sitting over a conflict zone. Ladakh’s geostrategic significance has increased ...

The Leap towards Mobility as a Service

The idea of MaaS is well-established, a service which integrates multiple modes of transport while focusing on users’ preferences, enabling an end-to-end seamless journey from point A to point B and creating lucrative business opportunities for related players. However, bringing it to life seems a distant reality in India. It demands a leap of faith in public-private symbiosis, modern infrastructure ...

Driving EV-based Sustainable Transport System to the next level

Over the years, the number of vehicles has increased exponentially, which has been reflected in increased energy consumption, CO2 emissions and fossil fuel prices. When we consider the road map for EVs, we see how significant it is to move into cleaner technologies. At the session on “Taking India’s EV based sustainable Transport System to the next level” a panel ...

Interagency coordination for better urban infrastructure

As cities grow, the provision for urban infrastructure and civic services become complex both in scale and geographic dispersion. Managing these complex operations by the City Corporation alone shall be cumbersome and inefficient. Abdul Malik, Secretary, Greater Cochin Development Authority talks about the key parameters that determine the needed coordination between various governmental agencies in creating an effective urban infrastructure, ...

Committed to innovation and technology

With a decade of operations in India, Microtrans Infratech Limited today is a leading manufacturer of traffic management solutions and system integrator. In a brief conversation with Trafficinfratech, Tushar Ranjan, Vice President, summed up the company’s focus and growth strategy You have a wide range of products keeping pace with the rapid changes in the traffic management space Microtrans is ...

Smart & Safe City Solutions

In the approach to the Smart Cities Mission of the government of India, the objective is to provide core infrastructure and give safe environment to citizens through application of ‘Smart & Safe City’ Solutions. Shailendra Kumar Singh, AVP – Smart & Safe City Business at Vehant Technologies, elaborates on the solutions for both the verticals of Smart & Safe City ...

Next Generation Road Safety

The issue of road safety has been complex and multifaceted for generations. Risk factors include speeding, drunk driving, not wearing a helmet or a seatbelt. The four risk factors have measurable effects on road mortality and morbidity regardless of the fact that many other factors contribute to road injuries and deaths (e.g., infrastructure and vehicle safety measures). A panel of ...