National

  Maurice D?Souza, Chief Operating Officer, CMS Computers Ltd talks about the relevance of ITS in India and the challenges in its widespread implementation.   What importance of ITS do you see in today?s traffic scenario in the country? ITS is quickly gaining relevance and importance in the Indian traffic scenario. An ITS with a proper architecture looks at optimisation ...

  The 24th annual Road Safety Week was observed from January 1-7 in different parts of the country. Different and diverse programmes marked the Week ? road safety campaigns, children?s programmes and training programmes for drivers. Many government organisations, NGOs and training institutes took part in the programmes. The theme for Road Safety Week 2013 was, ?Stay Alive, don?t drink ...

The Punjab government will allot more than 100 permits for operating new motor cabs and maxi cabs to provide improved transportation facilities to link villages to cities. The permits will be issued under the Mata Gujri Punjab Motor and Maxi Cab Scheme. Educated, unemployed youth would be given priority for the allotment of the permits.

About 160 roads in Delhi are set to get emergency disaster management lanes. To be painted in blue, the lanes will be on the extreme right of the roads and will be 3.5m wide. Normally, the lane will be open for vehicular traffic, but in case of an emergency or disaster which will be sounded by a siren, vehicles will ...

The government of Punjab and the Union Territory administration are planning to construct ring roads in Chandigarh. The project, if approved and implemented, will see a significant reduction in traffic congestion in the city, especially on some of its arterial roads such as Madhya Marg and Dakshin Marg. The Chandigarh Master Plan has proposed a ring road around Chandigarh to ...

The first phase (Phase 1A) of Jaipur Metro will likely become operational by July this year. The first phase, which is being executed on EPC basis, consists of 9.2m of elevated section with eight stations and 0.4km of underground section with one station. The project is being implemented by the Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (JMRC) which is a wholly ...

The Tata-Aldesa joint venture (JV), comprising the companies Tata Projects India and Spanish infrastructure group Aldesa, has been awarded the contract for the construction of a stretch of the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project. The project was awarded after an international competitive bidding processing involving ten bidders. The ?3300 crore project involves laying of a 343km long double track line ...

Vijay Chhibber has been appointed Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. He replaces A K Upadhyay who retired recently. Chhibber is an IAS officer of 1978 batch and belongs to the Manipur-Tripura Cadre. He is on central deputation and was holding the charge of Secretary, Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare from 10.09.2012 to 31.1.2013. He had earlier been Special Secretary ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has outlined a new transportation infrastructure plan. Under the plan, a new expressway will be built, connecting Lucknow and Agra. The highway, expected to cost about ?9,500 crore will bring down travel time between the two cities to three hours from the present six hours. Further, the government proposes to connect all district headquarters in the ...

Afcons Infrastructure is most likely to be awarded the contract for constructing the second phase of the Barapullah elevated road in Delhi, after having emerged as the lowest bidder. The second phase will see the elevated road being extended till the INA market on Aurobindo Marg and will also merge with the surface level there. An additional elevated loop will ...