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The German industrial sensor maker SICK AG has come out with a Hot Spot Detector that can detect overheated vehicles and components in them before the vehicles enter a tunnel. The detector does the detection with integrated LMS511 laser measurement sensors and sends a warning signal to the control centre. The control centre of the traffic management system then uses ...

The government of S?o Paulo, Brazil, has unveiled a Point-to-Point toll collection system aimed at making toll collection fairer, modern and efficient, that collects toll from vehicles based on the kilometres actually travelled. To make the collection by kilometre actually travelled possible, tags similar to those used by electronic toll collection system are installed on the vehicles. There are gates ...

The first metro tunnel between two stations on the Chennai Metro has been completed. The 1.3km long tunnel has been constructed in five and a half months. The tunnel goes under 750 buildings and is a part of the underground corridor of the Chennai Metro. About 958 rings, which act as the roof and the walls, have been fixed along ...

The Asian Development Bank has given a $110 million loan for developing the urban infrastructure of Jammu and Kashmir. Among other things, it will revamp the state?s urban infrastructure for transport, helping reduce inner city traffic congestion. The loan has a 25-year term including a grace period of five years.

The Oval Maidan-Churchgate-Virar elevated corridor on the Mumbai suburban rail section will be built using a standard gauge track with a width of four feet and eight-and-a-quarter inches, as opposed to the normal five feet and six inches wide track for broad gauge trains used in India. This will make the train coaches on the elevated corridor 3.22 metres wide ...

Japan is all set to make heavy investments in building India?s high speed rail network programme. Under an Exchange of Notes signed between the two countries, India will get Japanese technology for the bullet trains as well as a total of $424 billion as loan for the programme. This includes funding for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor as well ...

Portugal based road safety firm Sernis has unveiled a new technology for solar studs ? the i-stud. The new technology has been applied to existing SR-i15 and SR-i120 studs and enables them to work even during severe winter with very little sunlight. A microcontroller inside each stud gives various features and options including setting the studs in sleep mode to ...

Korea based automotive major, Hyundai, is testing its vehicles on a Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH) simulator. The desktop NVH Simulator realistically simulates the noise and vibration of a vehicle through use of an interactive driving environment. The simulator has a computer, a steering wheel, pedals and two additional screens installed in an actual vehicle or mounted on a desk to ...

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is planning to install a Centralised Data Management System for the Delhi metro. The Data System will help process the data from the 34 Tunnel Boring Machines which will be used for the Phase III of the metro. The underground Phase III corridor will be 53km in length and will have 74 tunnels. The Data ...

Major infrastructure companies such as Punj Lyod, Essar, Gammon, GMR, GVK, Soma, CRFG, Leighton and IL&FS Aldesa have expressed interest for constructing a 400km stretch of the 1,839km long Eastern Freight Corridor. The Corridor is being constructed by the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL), the special purpose vehicle of the Ministry of Railways for construction of the ...