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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has placed an order with SFC Energy AG for EFOY Pro fuel cell generators for 242 of its T5 Transporter vehicles which are used by the German Federal Office for Goods Transport (BAG) for toll inspection. The EFOY fuel cell generates power fully automatically, noiselessly and without any emissions for the measuring and surveillance devices and office ...

The government of Punjab and the Union Territory administration of Chandigarh are planning to construct ring roads in the city. The project, if approved and implemented, will see a significant reduction in traffic congestion in the city, especially on some of its arterial roads such as Madhya Marg and Dakshin Marg. The city?s Master Plan has proposed a ring road ...

The Bihar government is planning to build concrete roads for rural clusters with a population of 250 or more people. A total of about 34,116km of such roads will be built under the Mukhya Mantri Gram Sampark Yojna in the next five years. The roads which will be single metalled roads and the project is estimated to cost ?23000 crore. ...

The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has given the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) clearance for the second sea link project in Mumbai ? the proposed Versova-Bandra sea link.. With very less space available for the construction of new roads and expansion of existing roads the sea link is an important project to reduce commuting ...

In an attempt to speed up implementation of road infrastructure projects, especially those held up due to financial reasons, the government has is set to make changes in the model concession agreement for road projects. The new agreement is expected to give more functional and supervisory powers to banks who lend for the projects. If a concessionaire in a project ...

Point Grey, the Canadian designer and digital camera maker for industrial applications, has introduced two new camera models ? the 2.8 MP 1080p30 and the 5 MP. The two models are an extension of the Zebra2 camera series made especially for traffic and surveillance applications. The 2.8MP 1080p30 gives superior light sensitivity while the 5MP model is best suited for ...

Wessx Water, a water supply and sewerage utility company in Somerset, UK has launched a modified Volkswagen Beetle car, christened Bio-Bug, to run on methane gas produced from human waste. The gas is produced using the process of anaerobic digestion in which bugs break down bio-degradable material (in this case human waste) in the absence of oxygen to produce the ...

A plan to ease traffic congestion in Jaipur and increase the speed of vehicles by up to 30% has been drawn up by a team consisting of Bajrang Lal Swami, a professor in civil engineering from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), and Ritu Sharma and Hemant Sharma, both engineers from the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Project (RUIDP). The plan, ...

The foundation stone was recently laid for the construction of a 6.5km long tunnel along National Highway1 (NH1) which connects Leh and Srinagar. The tunnel, which gets its name from a Z formation along its path, will help motorists to avoid harsh conditions such as snowfall and avalanches which currently force the closure of roads to vehicular traffic for about ...

Spanish technology company, Indra System S.A. has got three toll technology contracts from Indian infrastructure major GMR. The ?8.6million contract is for implementing toll technology on roads in four states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Gujarat. In all, the contract will see Indra implementing electronic, manual and mixed toll collection and weigh-in motion systems in 46 lanes in the four ...