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The other highlight of the second day was the seminars on two topics that are of crucial importance to India?s traffic industry. Both the sessions provided a unique platform for traffic experts as well as system providers to interact and share knowledge. The seminar on Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRTS) in the morning saw presence of eminent speakers like Prof. ...

The ongoing TrafficInfraTech Expo 2013 saw many eminent professionals and officials from the traffic industry visiting the Show. Taj Hassan, Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Delhi Police who graced the event on its opening day as a speaker in one of the seminars also visited the exhibition and praised the organizers for putting up such an informative show. He said, ...

IJS Electronics, one of the exhibitors at TrafficInfraTech show, introduced the service vehicle for on road emergency services to the traffic police and other departments using company?s highway patrol vehicles. The mini van equipped with spare parts and repair kit was flagged off by Anil Shukla at the event. Commenting on the need of such products he said, ?The service ...

The Railways recently appointed Arunendra Kumar as the new Chairman of the Railway Board. Kumar, who is a Member Mechanical of the board, had also been holding additional charge of Chairman since June 30

Mumbai Traffic Police and the advertising company Draftfcb+Ulka jointly brought out the book, ?Drive Safe Mumbai?, a compilation of the most effective safety campaigns appeared over the last 20 years on the hoarding at a prominent traffic junction at Babulnath in south Mumbai. The book was launched by Amitabh Bachchan, in the presence of minister Jayant Patil, Javed Akhtar, Dr. ...

The recently inaugurated ATC tower at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is India?s tallest, with a height of 83.8m and built within an area of 2,800sqm at CSIA. The location and the height of the tower will enable the tower controllers to have unobstructed view of the entire operational area, and help in optimising air traffic separation and increase the ...

Delta Displays, an international provider of visual solutions recently supplied the latest Video Wall solutions for the SACS (Special Analytics and Computational Services) Centre of NTPC Ltd, India?s largest power company. The Centre, based at Noida, is an NTPC initiative for continually monitoring the reliability & performance characteristics of its key assets, decrease maintenance costs and reduce outages. The Centre ...

Work on Phase IB of the Jaipur metro began this October. This consists of a 1.4km long tunnel and 400m of-and-cover tunnel being constructed by the Indian office of Taiwanese company Continental Engineering Corp. The company will also design and construct two underground stations, under a `5.07bn, 36-month contract. Meanwhile test runs are being carried out on a 2.4km section ...

Toyota Motors has developed Automated Highway Driving Assist (AHDA) system ? a new driving support system combining two automated driving technologies to enable safe highway driving. AHDA integrates two technologies: Cooperative-Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Trace Control. The former uses the 700-MHz band to wirelessly communicate with preceding vehicles through vehicle-to-vehicle ITS communications. This allows the following vehicles to adjust ...

Akshaya Pvt Ltd, a real estate company in Chennai recently launched a campaign to educate school children in the state about road, internet and personal safety. A book titled ?Kidwise? was launched by Rajalakhmi Parathasarathy, the founder and dean of PSBB schools on the occasion. More than 50 schools will be covered in the first phase of the campaign. Posters ...