Beijing returns to bicycles
Lakhs of Beijingers are returning to the use of bicycles. Only, these are electric bikes – battery-powered and silent. This shift has taken place thanks […]
Category: Features
China’s monster traffic jam
A massive traffic jam in China was like a jigsaw puzzle in August and September. First, it started on Aug 14 on China’s highway leading […]
Turkey Metro will be earthquake resistant
Turkey has introduced a new isolated bearing system which is designed to preserve the alignment of critical structures while saving millions in construction costs. It […]
TagMaster and Confidex join hands
Swedish company TagMaster, the leading producer of advanced RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) solutions for railway applications, and Confidex, the world’s leading supplier of high-performing RFID […]
Social policing initiative
P Vijayan, the Police Commissioner of Kozhikode, has launched a project which will ensure that vehicle parts, personal belongings kept in vehicles and bikes are […]
Mumbai Mono Rail’s corridor world’s second longest!
Mumbai Mono Rail’s 19.54km long Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle Mono Rail corridor will be the world’s second longest Mono Rail corridor, coming second to only Japan’s Osaka […]
India to use Russia’s civil navigation signals free of cost
In what can be considered an answer to America’s GPS Technology, Russia has increased the momentum of the development of its decades old GLONASS satellite […]
Bandra Worli Sea Link
Bandra Worli Sea Link (BWSL) has been illuminated by Bajaj Electricals (BEL) with the use of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GRP) street lighting poles. This […]
New initiatives for carbon reduction
Mumbai will soon tread on a new city-wide low-carbon transport path that will facilitate it to avail of current carbon financing schemes. During a two […]
World Bank to investigate road safety in India
Alarmed by the increasing number of road accident deaths in India — the highest in the world at 1.18 lakh — the World Bank has […]