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Feeback Brisa Highways OMT Private Limited, a joint venture between Feedback Infrastructure Services Private Limited and Brisa, Auto-estradas de Portugal ? one of the Europe?s largest motorway companies, will implement the latest Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) project on national highway NH-8. The project, which is being initially implemented on a pilot basis, promises to significantly reduce wait times at toll ...

The Maharashtra government has approved a ? 4,028 crore budget for MMRDA for 2013-14. The budget has allocated ? 600 crore for the Extended Mumbai Urban Infrastructure Project including construction of six flyovers, completion of the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road, foot over bridges, service roads and beautification of spaces under the flyovers, the resettlement of? Tilak Nagar residents over 90km of ...

The Bombay High Court has suggested the railways to set up emergency medical centers near railway stations and some other spots on the Mumbai suburban network that are accident prone. More than 3,500 persons lost their lives in suburban train accidents in Mumbai last year. It has suggested medical centers on the lines of the only one existing at Dadar ...

Sadbhav Engineering has bagged a ? 12 billion contract from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to develop four lanes on a 98.81km stretch of NH-10 in Haryana. The project has a concession period of 22 years and will be executed on a design-build-finance operate-and-transfer (DBFOT) basis under phase III of the National Highways Development Project. Another project it ...

FLIR Systems Inc, a provider of thermal imaging systems, automotive night vision system, and personal vision thermal cameras recently acquired Traficon International NV, a leading provider of intelligent video detection solutions for traffic applications which include automatic incident detection, traffic data collection and intersection vehicle & pedestrian presence detection. After the acquisition, the company expects its thermal imaging technology to ...

ZF Friedrichshafen AG?s new plastic engine mount is being used in Renault-Nissan?s electric as well as small and compact cars. The plastic engine mount is a high performance product that dampens vibrations as effectively as the earlier rubber-metal versions but is approximately 25% lighter. The engine mount housing uses fibber glass reinforced polyamide instead of aluminum continuous casting to reduce ...

Two new intelligent traffic detection systems will be launched at Traffex 2013 in Birmingham, UK by AGD, a UK-based traffic detection product designer and manufacturer. The detectors are based on a new range of frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) ranging radars and can be used in urban as well as semi-urban areas. They can be used to detect queues, speed, vehicle ...

Lutz Bertling has taken over as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Berlin-based Bombardier Transportation. Bertling was earlier President and COO of Eurocopter Group, a subsidiary of EADS. He had also held several key positions at Adtranz and Daimler Chrysler Rail Systems GmbH.

IL&FS has secured a ?. 14.36 billion contract from the National Highways Authority of India for the construction of a four-lane stretch on the Kiratpur Ner Chowk Section of National Highway 21 (NH-21) in the states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. The project, to be completed on EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) basis, will reduce travel time and cost of ...

Mumbai?s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) has been rated among the top global airports worldwide for 2012. It has been adjudged the third best airport worldwide for airports in the 25-40 million passengers per annum (mppa) category in the annual Airport Service Quality Awards announced by the Airports Council International (ACI). The ACI, an autonomous and independent body, conducts airport ...