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In a measure that will save 5,71,261 units of electricity every year, the Chennai Municipal Corporation will replace 2,796 street lights with solar powered LED lamps in the slum areas of nine of its zones. Estimated to cost र6.63 crore, the new 70-watt sodium vapour lamps will cut down the corporation’s annual energy bill by र30 lakh. The project is ...

US based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently awarded its highest safety award – Top Safety Pick to the new Lexus 2011 hybrid CT 200h. IIHS, an independent not-for-profit research and communication body, awards the Top Pick award to vehicles that are fitted with electronic stability control and achieve a rating of ‘good’ in their tests for front, side, ...

IRD Inc.(International Road Dynamics, Canada) has appointed a new Managing Director, Pramod Radhakrishnan for IRD South Asia Pvt. Ltd (IRDSA). Radhakrishnan brings over 20 years of executive and international business experience to the team in India. He has been instrumental in establishing, managing and restructuring operations of several international corporations in India over the last several decades. IRDSA deals in ...

The Central Railway has installed on a trial basis a new electronic chip in two of its retrofitted trains. The chip is fixed in the motor cabs of the trains – the cabs that contain the electrical equipment in an Electric Multiple Unit (EMU). The signals sent by the chip will help railway engineers, sitting in the control room, to ...

Pune based Electrotherm Group has introduced a new service called Switch for renting out YoByke bikes running on batteries. The YoByke bikes will be available through E T Elec-Trans Ltd, a subsidiary of Electrotherm India, which introduced the bikes in India in 2006. Increased use of such bikes would result in a substantial reduction in traffic congestion and CO2 emissions, ...

The Konkan Railway Corporation (KRCL) Ltd will test an updated version of its patented Anti Collision Devices (ACDs) by September this year. The tests and evaluation will be carried out by an independent agency, the Electronics Test and Development Centre, at Chennai. The ACD devices that can be mounted on rail locomotives and can also be deployed along the tracks, ...

The NHAI will shortly float tenders to build the Delhi-Meerut expressway. The 64km-long expressway is expected to reduce travel time from Delhi to Meerut from two-and-a-half hours to 45 minutes. The first 8km of the expressway from Nizamuddin Bridge to Ghaziabad border will have 16 lanes. NHAI has already commenced the land acquisition process for the project, which is scheduled ...

The MMRDA has decided to install noise barriers near IIT, Mumbai. The distance between the IIT campus and the main road has decreased to quite an extent after the MMRDA acquired land from IIT Mumbai to widen the Jogeshwari-Kurla Link Road. As a result, noise levels inside the campus have increased considerably. The noise barriers will decrease noise levels to ...

Mumbai has been declared the world’s noisiest city according to the results of a survey conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board. Major factors contributing to noise pollution in Mumbai are the indiscriminate honking of the vehicles, the booming construction projects all over the city and bursting of firecrackers during festivals. The drivers of auto rickshaws and taxis are the ...

The New Swedish Public Transport Act has created much flutter in the transport world. While experts feel the need for private and public sector to co-exist is strong, skeptics fear it might be a move to off-load risk.