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In the United Kingdom, road safety professionals’ toolkits have been developed road safety professionals’ toolkits. They are available on the primary and secondary THINK! websites which deal with educating people about road safety with the intention of inculcating the right road safety practices among children. The kits are designed for road safety officers who can understand the process, pass it ...

Delhi now has a state-of-the-art Operations Control Centre (OCC). Recently inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, it is located at the ISBT building, Kashmere Gate. The OCC is a highly sophisticated traffic monitoring and control system set up by the Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS) Ltd which will monitor the traffic situation in the city and ...

The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) released the results of a study by NASA engineers – experts in computer controlled electronic systems, electromagnetic interference and software integrity – of the unintended acceleration that rocked Toyota last year prompting withdrawal of several hundred thousand Toyota cars from the US market. The NASA engineers, commissioned by the US regulatory body The National ...

Denver International Airport (DEN) at Colorado, USA has decided to use a new Airport Surface Management System – Aerobahn made by Sensis Coporation, New York. Aerobahn will provide all service providers at DEN –such as airlines, airport operators, air navigation service providers and deicing companies who share related interests – a common platform for sharing information and monitoring of the ...

If things go according to plans for the American firm Terrafugia Inc, it might be rolling out the first flying car, or rather ‘a plane that can also be driven around like a car’ as the company prefers to call it, by the end of this year. After a period of extensive testing consisting of 28 trials, the Boston based ...

IRDSA, a 100% owned subsidiary of IRD Inc. (International Road Dynamics, Canada) has been awarded three important road contracts in India. IRDSA is a market leader in ITS industry and is a preferred choice of concessionaires for its proven, innovative and evolved ITS systems. The first contract is for supplying toll systems for the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, one of the ...

Volvo Cars of Sweden has introduced its least expensive model, S60 in India with a price tag of र27 lakhs. The S60 will compete with other luxury cars such as the Mercedes Benz C Class, Audi A4 and the BMW 3 Series. The S60 is powered by a 2.4 litre diesel engine. The company plans to bring out less expensive ...

SKIDATA, the Swedish access solutions major, and TagMaster, a leading Swedish RFID solutions provider, have signed a MOU for integrating TagMaster XT readers with SKIDATA keytags. Applications such as parking facilitiies have been using both TagMaster RFID solutions and SKIDATA parking management equipment independently for many years. The integration of the two will now provide such applications a means to ...

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), Maharashtra’s top infrastructure planning and construction agency, has decided to take on the role of transport planning as well. A core committee headed by the principal secretary of the urban development department of the state has proposed to merge the United Mumbai Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMMTA) with the MMRDA since the functions of ...