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The Railways plans to commercially develop land owned by it in Mumbai to augment its revenue. Revenue has been under considerable strain on the one hand due to constant increase in diesel prices, increase in staff salaries, the need to run more trains, and on the other hand due to the constraints in increasing passenger fares. The Mumbai Vikas Corporation ...

The Central government is in the process of setting up an Expressway Authority of India to oversee the development of a high speed road network across the country. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will very soon send a proposal to the Union Cabinet for its approval. A separate Expressway Authority has been necessitated by the fact that the ...

A new integrated motor drive and battery charger for electric vehicles has been developed by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The new charger will reduce charging times from eight to two hours and reduce costs by around $2,000. The charger uses a new power transfer technique that involves a rotating transformer. Instead of having a separate isolated battery ...

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is considering giving more powers to lenders to revive interest among investors in public-private partnership (PPP) based road and highway projects. An example of this is the proposal to modify the Model Concession Agreement (MCA) for the road sector such that lenders can petition replacement of a concessionaire if it fails to meet ...

India?s first interoperable RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) based electronic toll collection system has been launched in Thane, Maharashtra on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. The electronic toll collection (ETC) system enables payment without the need for vehicles to stop for the toll collection, and also allows traffic monitoring. Motorists can create a pre-paid toll account online and are given RFID tags ...

Mumbai may soon get air-conditioned trains on the suburban section. The Railways has been holding discussions with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Dutch technical consulting firm Structon Rail and the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) on the matter. Surveys conducted by the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation have shown commuters favouring the introduction of air-conditioned trains. BHEL is expected to ...

Volvo Construction Equipment, a leading manufacturer of road building and maintenance equipment, is all set to introduce a new low-emission technology in engines in its forthcoming Stage IV/Tier 4 final-compliant trucks. The engines use selective catalytic reduction (SCR), a diesel particulate filter (DPF) and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in order to meet the requirements of the forthcoming Stage IV/Tier 4 ...

The Minister for Road Transport & Highways Dr C P Joshi recently interacted with people via Google hangout. The minister answered queries on a wide variety of topics, ranging from road safety and toll collection to traffic management. Some of the questions were on the measures the ministry was taking to prepare a comprehensive database, like the ones in the ...

Hyderabad Metro has received its first set of rails – about 5,000 tonnes of rails from Tata Steel, France, which is one of the largest suppliers of rails to major rail projects around the world. The project needs about 22,500 tonnes of rails which will be procured in six lots. Each rail is 18m long and weighs about 1100kg. Since ...

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has appointed Anoop Kumar Gupta as Director (Electrical). Prior to this, Gupta was working as Chief General Manager of Delhi Metro. He headed the electrical maintenance wing of the company for the last six years and also served as chief of the Disaster Management Team of the company. Gupta is an electrical engineer from IIT ...