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Kritilal’s UVSS secures Mumbai International Airport

The growing amount of vehicular traffic to the airport premises made Mumbai International Airport to entrust complete security of its multi-level car parking to KritiKal SecureScan Pvt Ltd. Kapil Bardeja, Co-Founder & CEO, of its company speaks about the automated under vehicle scanning system or UVSS. UVSS, integrated with other security and parking systems, gives a complete, automated and real ...

Traffic Demand Management Can Reduce Car Congestion

A century of car-centric urban development has left our cities polluted, congested, and searching for sustainable solutions. Transport Demand Management (TDM) strategies can provide these solutions by combining public policy and private sector innovation to reverse over-reliance on private cars. The Moving Beyond Cars series – exclusive to TheCityFix and WRI Insights – offers a global tour of TDM solutions ...

Need for Standards and Uniformity

Balraj Bhanot, Management Consultant, Chairman TEDC (BIS), Former Director ARAI and Chairman CMVR-TSC writes on the need for standardization in ITS technology Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is a wide field, and today, there is no single ownership to the subject in the country. The subject of ITS cuts across various ministries of the government like Transportation, Communication, Railways, Civil Aviation, ...

Emergency Driving, Risk Perception, Observation and training methods

Following recent improvements in the field of eye-tracking, Australia based Shawsett Training and Safety is now doing trials on drive simulations using eye tracking training to provide a safer and more effective training. The major impact is to improve observation and risk awareness, an essential requirement when driving in busy Indian conditions. Steve Shaw, Managing Director, Shawsett Training and Safety ...

Transportation Infrastructure: Increased safety through increased availability

Dynamic traffic control takes into consideration the current traffic situation and influences the traffic flow by means of previously defined strategies. It helps to measurably improve traffic flow. Phoneix Contact India Pvt Ltd offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions. Complex systems which must operate in a fail-safe way, such as transportation routes, engineering works, airports or railway stations, require intelligent ...

Software Safety Assurance for Metro Railways

Modern railway systems are becoming more software intensive than ever before. Majority of safety functions are implemented and/or controlled by computers. Dr Ajeet Kumar Pandey, RAMS Leader, Alstom Transport, explains the software safety assurance model for metro railway. System Safety is the key driver in the design of systems and must stand upfront before any analysis. It is a planned, ...

Integrating Bicycles and Public Transport

Naresh Kuruba, Research Scholar, CEPT University and Shalini Sinha, Associate Professor, CEPT University assess the applicability and acceptability of Bike and Ride (B&R) facilities in case of Ahmedabad city. Public transit is not designed to provide a door-to-door connectivity unlike personalized modes of transport. Access and egress are the weakest links in public transit and it is recommended to have ...

Goa City Surveillance

Goa, located in west coast line on Indian sub-continent, is one of the most prominent tourist places in India. Because of the high number of foot falls on a daily basis, the security and traffic regulations across Goa have been the key concerns of the Goa Police. i2V, an expert in enterprise project especially in city surveillances was selected by ...

Securing Hotels at Delhi Aerocity

KritiKal SecureScan (KSS), an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi incubated entity secures the New Delhi Aerocity completely by installing NuvoScanTM UVSS & VehiScan® ANPR system at multiple hotels entrances. Aerocity with 11 hotels and 5400 rooms is spread across 43 acres of land near Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The hotels in Aero City are precariously close to various ...

Future of Mobility

Sri Krishnan V, Vice President, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited delivered the keynote address during the session “New Mobility” at TrafficInfraTech Expo 2015. He touched upon the mega trends and developments in traffic that will influence the future of mobility. Mega trends and their impact on the future of mobility Urbanization is now becoming hyperurbanization with more than ...