Category: Best Stories
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Sustainable Transport Saves Lives: A Case for Investing in Safety of Public Bus Fleets
Inducing a modal shift from private transport to public buses will reduce road traffic deaths in India. In cities such as Bangalore and Mumbai, the city bus agencies – Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) and Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) respectively – account for 20-32 percent of the mode share, but were involved in…
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AI: Transforming the Transportation Ecosystem
[box type=”shadow” ]Road safety is a pressing issue in India. However, emerging technology can lend a helping hand. Specifically, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have contributed to positive results in many areas and can help improve road safety[/box] AI is any behaviour that is apparently intelligent carried out by machines rather than the kinds of…
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Sensing for Safety
[box type=”shadow” ]Smart roads will likely shape the mobility of the future. Smart roads will rely on a successful interaction between smart vehicles and smart infrastructure. Vehicles are becoming more and more important actors in the current scenario, providing new challenging applications, from safety to traffic management and infotainment. In this challenging scenario, it is…
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Concerted solutions
With rising population density, the world’s megacities are facing ever more complex problems. This is precisely why they are also the best places for the concerted development of smart solutions for the city of the future. One example is the new Smart City Digital Hub at Hong Kong Science Park, where Mobility is one of…
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Traffic Management as a Service
Traffic Management as a Service – TMaaS is a new concept which applies the latest ideas and technology to traffic management infrastructure, with a wide range of different application modules managed by experts TMaaS is based on flexible deployment options tailored to individual customer requirements. Using browserbased user interfaces with easy workflows, the solution is…
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Rajdeep Info Techno
Offering advanced solutions for Traffic MonitoringAs the Highways continue to develop, the scale of traffic monitoring operations has also grown. The data collected through monitoring equipment needs reliable system backbone With the development of new technologies like Hybrid ETC (Fast Tag), MSWIM, Video Incident Detection, ANPR, etc and deployment of these in toll plazas have brought in better reliability in…
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Emerging trends in Premise Security
Security threats can be addressed more effectively by adopting advanced technologies and standard industry practices says Vivekanand, Lead Software Engineer- Vehant Technologies In today’s world, security has become a major concern for everybody. Places of importance/mass gathering like railway stations, airports, government offices, IT Parks, residential societies etc. are prime targets for terrorist attacks. Securing…
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“We expect to be a leading player in Smart Parking solutions & Toll Collection”
Arya Toll Infra Ltd, part of Arya Group, is an existing player in the User Fee (Toll) Collection Business and has undertaken India’s first and biggest contract of Smart Parking (Operation and Management) with Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh. Inspired by the success tasted in the initial years of business, the company now aims higher on…
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PERMANENT TRAFFIC MONITORING: Adding Value
[box type=”shadow” ]The world is changing, transportation is evolving, and the traffic analysis solutions have adapted. Informed decision making is imperative to building sustainable road infrastructure. Nothing will provide road managers with richer information than reliable, permanent monitoring systems. The technology currently available for accurately monitoring busy multi lane roads (+3 lanes/direction) requires permanently embedded…
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Mobile Network Data in Transport Planning
[box type=”shadow” ] Mobile Network Data carries a lot of advantages in terms of huge sample size that is not possible from the traditional methods, says Madhu Meenakshi Karthikeyan – Managaing Director, Datacorp Traffic Pvt Ltd [/box] India is home to 1.19 billion mobile phone subscribers. Every phone is constantly searching for a mobile…