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Eyeing the lucrative commercial vehicles market in the country, Swedish truck maker Scania is all set to open a completely knocked down unit (CKD) assembly unit for truck and bus chassis in Bangalore. This would be the first phase of the company’s planned operations in India. The truck major would eventually have service workshops for trucks and buses, and bus ...

TRAFFICINFRATECH EXPO 2012 (May 17-19, 2012, Bombay Exhibition Centre) The view of the Expo venue TrafficInfraTech Expo is back. This time, in Mumbai. The Expo that proved to be the most successful integrated Show on traffic last year, promises to be yet another record-breaking show this year as well. The organisers, Virtual Info Systems and Italy’s Fierabolzano & Afidamp Servizi ...

The Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned the construction of the second phase of the outer ring road for Chennai, a project which will help heavy vehicles with containers bound towards the Chennai and Enmore Ports bypass – the congested city roads. The 32km road is estimated to cost around र1075 crore, and would be constructed on a BOT model, PPP ...

The Southern Railway will install the Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) on the Beach-Arakkonam section near Chennai. The project will involve, among other things, installation of track-side equipment in the form of Line-side Electronic Units, interfacing them with balises or electronic beacons fitted on the tracks, and interlinking of about 400 signals. This is the first time that TPWS, which ...

In a bid to promote religious tourism in the state, the Jharkhand state government has decided to build an international airport in the pilgrim town of Deoghar. The government recently signed a MoU with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for setting up the airport on 675 acres of land. Equipped with international standard infrastructure, the airport is expected to ...

The contract to design a 14km metro line for the planned Hyderabad Metro has gone to RMJM, the internationally famous architectural firm. One of the three metro lines to be built for the city, it will have 13 elevated stations and two interchange stations. The latter will be about 5,000sqm in size with one of the stations connecting the metro ...

A one day workshop was organised in Pune by the All India Federation of Motor Vehicle Department (AIFMVDTOA) and Executive Officers Association of Maharashtra Motor Vehicle Department. The workshop, under the Road Safety 2020 programme, was organised in collaboration with the Institute for Transportation Engineers (ITE), Washington DC. Attended by over 30 representatives of the Federation from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil ...

The Southern Railway will convert 14 of the 58 unmanned level crossings in the Chennai division into manned crossings by the end of the current financial year. It hopes to have personnel posted at all the crossings in the division by 2015. More than one million passengers using suburban trains in the Chennai division face a significant risk to life ...

As is being done since several years throughout the country, Road Safety Week was observed throughout the country by different government and non-governmental organisations. While in most of the places it began on January 1, 2012 and ended on January 07, many places observed it as a Road Safety Fortnight. Some states like Rajasthan, given the onslaught of the cold ...

Since the Road Safety 2012 campaign by The Society of Indian Automotive Manufacturers (SIAM) runs throughout January 2012, here is a roundup of their activities conducted during the last fortnight.