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Steria India is organising a round table discussion on February 14th at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai on smart solutions for safe, sustainable and intelligent traffic management. The roundtable will focus on ideas and approaches to tackle issues of interest to both fleet operators and highway concessionaires using IT-based fleet-management and highway traffic management systems. The discussions by the expert ...

The Tamil Nadu government has introduced a new performance-based maintenance contract system for the state roads. The system is expected to improve the quality of roads and ease traffic congestion by providing better roads. The system will cover both ? laying of new roads and highways as well as maintenance of existing ones. The scheme will be launched on a ...

A new, integrated passenger terminal has been opened at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose airport in Kolkata. The 195,000 square feet five-storey terminal has a capacity of handling 7452 passengers per hour and 20 million passengers per year. It features upgraded taxiways and extended runways which allow bigger aircraft including the Airbus A-380 to land and take off. It has ...

Japanese automaker Isuzu Motors has announced plans to set up a new manufacturing plant in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. To be built at a cost of ?1000 crore, it will have a capacity of around 50,000 vehicles per year. The plant is expected to begin commercial production by 2015. The process of homologation, the process certifying that a vehicle is ...

IBM and the German city of Cologne recently teamed up to test the company?s new transportation management software which helps in forecasting and managing traffic flow and traffic congestion. During the pilot study transportation experts from IBM and Cologne analysed data from the city’s traffic command centre which collects real-time data from around 150 monitoring stations and 20 traffic cameras ...

The winning entries for ?Rethinking Kala Nagar Traffic Junction,? a competition organised by the BMW Guggenheim Lab, in collaboration with Mumbai Environmental Social Network (MESN) to redesign one of Mumbai?s most congested transportation hubs at Kala Nagar, has thrown up interesting, creative and practical designs for the Kala Nagar junction which sees about 60,000 passengers per hour during peak times. ...

The Union Finance Ministry has approved Viability Gap Funding of about ? 1930 crore for the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link project. The 22km bridge which connects Sewri in South Mumbai to Nhava Sheva in Navi Mumbai will be the longest sea bridge in India. Bids will now be invited for the project. Besides decongesting the city, MTHL will provide connectivity ...

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 and ...

The Western India Automobile Association (WIAA) is in the process of submitting a host of safety recommendations to the Maharashtra government on the safety measures to be taken on the Mumbai-Pune and Mumbai-Goa expressways in the state which have witnessed an alarming rise of accidents of late. The Association has recommended among other things, a provision for rest rooms for ...

Fiat India has inaugurated a new international class dealership in Noida. The 4,000 sq ft showroom is the company?s first dealership in the region. The dealership is a joint effort with the Kashyap Group which has more than 25 years of experience and market knowledge of the automobile trade in the NCR region in particular and in India and abroad. ...