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Salt Lake City in the US, in collaboration with parking and enforcement technology developer Aparc System, has awarded a contract to mobile payment platform provider QuickPay to offer mobile parking payment facilities to the city drivers. Programmes such as parking plans, coupons, dynamic pricing and automated validations from local businesses can be easily executed on the QuickPay platform. The new ...

Road Expo 2012, Scotland’s largest traffic management and highway maintenance event, will be held from November 7-8 2012 at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh. Road Expo provides road professionals the latest developments in technology and implications of legislative changes. Over one hundred leading suppliers including BEAR/Eurovia, Peek Traffic, Siemens, Tarmac, Swarco Traffic and Acklea will showcase their latest products and ...

International Road Dynamics Inc. (IRD) will present and exhibit at the 2012 Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Annual Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada from October 14-17. The TAC Conference features a wide variety of technical, social, professional and networking events over three and a half days. IRD will highlight it’s ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) for commercial vehicle safety and ...

Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon Limited has awarded a Rs. 2100 crore contract to a consortium of IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd and its subsidiary IL&FS Rail Ltd for extending the Rapid Metro Rail of Gurgaon by 6.5km towards the southern parts of the city. The extension will have 6 metro stations which will be covered in about 18 minutes. The project which ...

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation near Pune in Maharashtra is in the process of implementing a plan to improve traffic and implement road safety measures at 50 traffic junctions. The plan was developed after a joint survey undertaken by the traffic and civic officials of the city sometime back. The plan involves improvement at traffic junctions, providing safe pedestrian crossings, creation ...

A trial run of the Gurgaon Rapid Metro was recently conducted by the Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The Rapid Metro is 5.1km long and cost about Rs. 1088 crore to build. The trial run was completed in a short time of 2 months. The Metro is expected to help take about 60,000 vehicles off the road and reduce ...

International Road Dynamics Inc (IRD) recently installed its weigh-in-motion system WIM@Toll at toll plazas along the Tavan Tolgoi – Gashuun Sukhait toll road in Mongolia. The road is a crucial route that facilitates the development and expansion of mining in the high quality coal deposit areas of the Gobi region. The WIM@Toll system uses IRD’s Slow Speed Weigh-In-Motion (SSWIM) scales ...

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) plans to award about 4,000km of road construction projects in the current fiscal year through the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) mode. Of this the Ministry has already invited bids for about 2650 km of projects. The developers will be finalised and selected on a generic basis, valid to bid for all ...

The central government is planning to introduce a one-time urban transport tax on private vehicles in an effort to encourage use of public transport and discourage the use of private vehicles. According to urban transport experts mega cities have 10% of total vehicles in the country, of which 90% are private vehicles. For existing vehicles the urban transport tax will ...

Ambassador Bridge, an important international bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario in Canada to Detroit, Michigan, has installed 3M’s newly introduced 3MID6204 Multiprotocal Reader. The ID6204 can read all six tolling protocols used in North America – ISO 18000-6C, ISO 18000-6B, ISO10374, CalTrans Title-21, ASTMv6 and PS111 (IAG). This ensures seamless operations with tags of any type used on customer vehicles. The ...