The Railways is in the process of importing a number of high speed accident relief trains to expedite rescue and restoration work after accidents. The trains will be high-speed, diesel powered self-propelled trains with a maximum speed of 160kmph. At present the railways have 27 self propelled accident relief trains with a maximum speed of 110kmph. Each diesel powered train ...
Thailand?s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has introduced a new Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). As a part of the project, titled Smart Thailand, all cars in Thailand will have sensors installed in them. The sensors transmit real-time location of the cars to a central Control Centre where it is combined with data received from the CCTV network. This combined ...
Momentum Dynamics, a US based electronics company, has developed a technology to charge electric vehicles wirelessly through snow, ice and water without the use of any cables or wires. Tests conducted have shown the technology, which works on the principle of inductive charging, to work in all weather conditions. The vehicles are charged without any need of supervision. The system ...
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) successfully carried out a test run of Mumbai Monorail, India?s first mono rail. About 100 journalists travelled in a glittering four-coach modern pink train that looked more like a toy train than the 12 coach trains Mumbaikars are used to. The test run covered seven stations from Wadala to Chembur in an 8.80km ...
Steria (India) Ltd, the Indian arm of Paris headquartered IT Solutions and Services company, Steria, organised a roundtable conference in Mumbai on ?Modern Approach to 21st Century Transport Challenges?. The aim was to attain a thought leadership position on Steria?s point of view on achieving operational efficiency with optimised transport systems amongst policymakers at all levels in the Indian transport ...
KritiKal Solutions Pvt Ltd has launched a Video Signal Processing Unit 150T? 01. The video signal-processing unit is a low-cost system which provides an end-to-end platform for EO/IR sensor data acquisition, pre-processing, compression & streaming of video data. The indigenously designed generic platform around Xilinx Spartan 6 device enables real-time data acquisition from multiple sensors and cameras. It is a ...
Newcastle University in the UK, along with the Newcastle City Council, have developed a new technology to reduce traffic congestion. The new satellite navigation technology which will be tested in the city will enable motorists to adjust the speed of their vehicles in order to pass through a series of traffic lights on green. The project which is designed to ...
Switzerland based ADEC Technologies, a manufacturer of non-intrusive road traffic detectors has released a new traffic detector, the TDD1-MW75 with an increased range of 75m (250ft). The detector which works on the principle of Doppler shift more than doubles the range of its existing detector model ? the DD1-MW30 which works for short range applications. The TDD1-MW75 is flexible and ...
Image Sensing System (ISS), a US-based provider of above-ground detection and information management services for the ITS sector, has introduced a new rapid licence plate recognition technology, CitySync. CitySync uses a fast, accurate automatic licence plate recognition (ALPR) engine which reads a licence plate many times using multiple advanced methods for optical character recognition and detection of each plate. The ...
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