MaaS promises to change the urban mobility landscape by changing the way people used to travel, although the prospect of implementing such solutions heavily depends upon the readiness of Indian cities., writes Narendra Verma, Technical Advisor, Sustainable Urban Mobility – Air Quality, Climate Action and Accessibility, GIZ India As we know it today, Mobility as a Service provides access to ...
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Interview: “System Integrators can offer value until enforcement is in place at Toll Plazas”
Astutely answering TrafficInfraTech’s questions, Sandeep Pawar, Managing Director of Kent ITS, discusses Kent ITS’ journey as a System Integrator, Fastag’s contribution to the mobility segment, and the potential impact of GPS-based tolling on Indian roads. Being in the business of Toll operation for the past 25 years, Kent ITS has expanded both in terms of volume of service offerings and ...
Bengaluru to soon get more than 900 electric buses
Bengaluru is all set to get a fleet of 921 more electric buses as the city’s transport corporation has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of Tata Motors. The subsidiary, TML Smart City Mobility Solutions, will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of 921 low-floor electric buses in the city for 12 years. The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) ...
Road Safety initiatives in Odisha
In Odisha, annually more than 5,000 lives are lost in road accidents. This has serious impact on families and the economy. Road safety is a high priority area for Odisha Government, states Sanjay Kumar Biswal, Joint Commissioner Transport, Road Safety, Government of Odisha. Historically, Odisha has scored 66% and categorized as ‘high performer’ in implementing road safety measures during audit ...
ITMS: Fuelling the Green Public Transport Revolution
India has set an ambitious target of cutting its emission to net zero by 2070. As a result, Electric Vehicles are gaining momentum. The government itself has started taking firm steps in the direction by replacing the traditional buses with E-buses. Writes Shamik Joshi, Head-Mobility, Amnex Infotechnologies Pvt Ltd. However, the EV sector is still in its nascent stage and ...
Case Study: iROADS – An indispensable solution for Efficient Road Asset Management
iROADS is a sophisticated infrastructure asset management system and decision-making tool for all infrastructure assets, delivering a single solution software tool for asset owners and operators. TRL Technologies India Private Limited (a joint venture between TRL UK and Experion Technologies India) makes this software solution accessible to the globe. The ingenious tool helps in the management of road assets with ...
Steel Slag Road for Durable Infrastructure
India is having world’s second largest road network in terms of length. Every year for maintenance and construction of this vast road network around 1.2 billion tonnes of natural aggregates are required. This huge demand of natural aggregates is meted out through unsustainable quarrying and mining of stone aggregates in many areas, which is causing serious ecological impacts on natural ...
C-V2X: Enabling Intelligent Transport Systems and enhancing driving experience
With increasing amounts of automation, the transport systems become more connected, integrated, and intelligent in handling complex combinations of situations to create an improved experience for people. The vehicles themselves have been in a state of transformation with more intelligence within the vehicle\ Most of us may have encountered some form of automation and intelligence in the traffic management systems ...
Steradian Semiconductor: Pioneering in Integrated 4D Imaging Radars
The 4D Imaging Radar sensor offers a safer and smarter future targeting to fulfil all the needs of ITMS, Speed Enforcement/Detection, Traffic Enforcement (RLVD/ATCC), Traffic Signal controls etc for Highway and Smart City projects Bangalore based Steradian Semiconductors is in the forefront in Integrated 4D Imaging Radars. Imaging Radar migrates conventional point tracking devices to extracting high density point cloud ...
Treatment and Mitigation of Chronic Land Slide
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is actively involved in road construction in Upper Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh and is responsible for construction and maintenance of Roads Tama Chung Chung (TCC) – Taksing and others in terrain that is characterised by steep mountains and deep valleys. The young mountain slopes are not stable; resulting in frequent landslides, shooting rocks and erosion ...
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