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The buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) has pervaded the infrastructure and logistics markets and stakeholders across the globe take a second look at this emerging space. Sid Jalan explores how AI will figure in Surveillance and Traffic Management. India consistently ranks as one of the most dangerous countries when it comes to road safety. It has not gone unnoticed by ...

Keeping in view the increasing traffic congestion on Indian roads and the ever growing road accident fatality, it has been widely felt that implementation of Intelligent Traffic Management Systems at all urban roads is absolutely essential. Focusing on the multifarious capabilities of the latest Video Security System based ITMS, Ashish P Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India Pvt Ltd, ...

The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) has appointed various consultants for Master Planning of development related activities of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) Project. Among the consultants appointed are: Gujarat Consortium led by M/s. Halcrow, Haryana Consortium led by M/s. Jurong, Rajasthan Consortium led by M/s. Kuiper Compagnons, Madhya Pradesh Consortium led by M/s. Lea Associates, Uttar ...

The Delhi PWD (Public Works Department), in collaboration with the Delhi Police, is working on a plan to make the roads in the city safer and more pedestrian friendly. The plan includes measures such as installing speed calmers, cats eye, delineators and appropriate traffic signage on the roads. This will be doen at about 144 locations identified by the police. ...

The Supreme Court has set up a 3-member panel to monitor road safety measures implementation across the country. The panel will be headed by Justice KS Radhakrishnan and will have former secretary, Ministry of Surface Transport, S Sundar and former Head of Department of Traffic Engineering and Safety Nishi Mittal as members. All state governments and the central ministries involved ...

A recent seminar on promoting awareness and usage of steel slag, organised by the Ministry of Steel and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) saw prominent participants advocating the use of steel slag for railways and road construction. The slag, which is a byproduct generated during the steel making process, has high abrasion resistance, good soundness ...

Frequent untoward incidents on the Delhi Metro have prompted the Metro authorities to conduct two-hour educational tours of the Metro. The programme – Know your Metro – to be conducted in batches, would comprise briefing commuters about the emergency system as well as other aspects of station and train management. Selected batches of passengers will be taken through the paces ...

Faced with an ever-increasing number of accidents on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) is planning to install an intelligent highway surveillance and management system on the premier expressway. The system will assist the highway police who have been facing severe limitations in traffic enforcement on the busy expressway. It will have high resolution cameras with ...

Kishen Patel, a National Institute of Design (NID) graduate from Ankleshwar, has designed a new transit system for the city – Ahmedabad Nagar Transit System (ANTS) – which is based on the same principles of that of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), but tries to solve its flaws. Patel got the inspiration for ANTS from studying the communal behaviour of ...

A total of 14 companies, including five foreign firms, have submitted proposals for setting up an integrated security and surveillance system in Noida. The high-tech system known as C4i – Command, Control, Communication, Computing and Intelligence – will add teeth to the police force, helping cops check crime and traffic offences. As part of the C4i projects, several hundred closed-circuit ...