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The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will soon get land from the Tamil Nadu government for the expansion of the Madurai and Tuticorin airports. The additional land will be used for expanding the runways, constructing additional terminal buildings to cater to the increasing passenger traffic, the air traffic control tower and other facilities. The Tamil Nadu government has nearly completed ...

Secro has got a $355 million contract from the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) in the US to integrate and operate VDOT?s transportation operation centres and manage the safety service patrol. The project will help VDOT implement a single, real-time, state-wide system to manage 57,000 miles of roads, moving over from a conventional traffic management system. Serco will install and ...

Highway Resource Solutions (HRS) has introduced an integrated road safety solution known as Intellicone on parts of the M6 motorway in the UK. Intellicone alerts road maintenance personnel and workers to the danger of an approaching vehicle. The system has a wireless sensor network consisting of impact sensors that transmit alarm signals to the Intellicone Portable Site Alarm (PSA) in ...

The concessionaire for the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) project will get a 10% shortfall loan from the Union government?s empowered committee of the department of economic affairs (DEA). The loan will make the project financially more viable and more bankable. It will also ensure that bankers? debt service obligations are met in case the traffic on the Link falls ...

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has issued a contract to the Thales Group to supply a Passenger Information System for the Jaipur Metro. The system will interface with a rail traffic management system and use a single software to facilitate generation and distribution of real-time traffic information to passengers and service personnel. The integrated, synchronised passenger announcement system, coupled with ...

The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) plans to install Wi-Fi sets on 100 Shivneri AC Volvo buses that it operates between Mumbai and Pune. The service, which will be free, will allow commuters to access the internet from their laptops, iPads and smartphones such as Android, BlackBerry and iPhones. Before using the service, commuters will receive a query, in ...

IL&FS Transportation Networks recently got a contract from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to widen a 123km stretch of the national highway NH2. The project, to convert the stretch into a six-lane road, will be executed under the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) Phase V on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBOFT) basis. It will be ...

A new series of traffic enforcement cameras, the T-Series Statio cameras from the Netherlands based Gatsometer BV, which combine red light enforcement with speed enforcement, has been approved by the Netherlands Institute for Metrology and Technology. The technology detects both red-light and speed offences, and captures high resolution images and videos of the violating vehicles. A compact 20-megapixel GT20 camera ...

The Mumbai Metro recently conducted its first trial run of the train ? a 3km run from the Versova metro station to the Azad Nagar metro station ? flagged off by the Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Among others present on the occasion were UPS Madan, Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA, SVR Srinivas, Additional Metropolitan Commissioner, PRK Murthy, Chief, Transport and Communication ...

Implementing the resolution in the 2013-14 Railway budget, the Thiruvananthapuram railway division moved closer to running about 384 level crossing gates on solar power. The initiative is part of the railways’ plan to use renewable energy sources and environment-friendly energy conservation measures. The plan aims to eventually run 1,000 level crossings on solar power and would give the railways tax ...