Safety Audit of an Urban Expressway
The Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) conducted a Road Safety Audit (RSA) in March, 2013, aimed at mitigating the rising road crashes on the Noida […]
Category: Features
Are India’s popular small cars unsafe?
India is now the sixth largest in the world for the production and sale of passenger cars. India could become the world?s third largest market […]
Urban Safety: The two-wheeler phenomenon
Ranjit Gadgil, Programme Director, Parisar, discusses the safety risks associated with the ever-increasing use of two wheelers in the country, and the need to improve […]
Metro Rail System Need for Standardisation
An increasing number of cities in India have opted for metro rail as the choice of mass rapid transit system. The author takes a look […]
Reduction of crowding level in Public Transportation Service:
An important policy agenda
The authors consider the effect of crowding, while investigating the attractiveness of a public transportation service in developing countries like India. The important attributes of […]
Intelligent traffic system gives-transparency in vehicular traffic system
Orderly traffic management system catches our eye whenever we visit the developed countries. However, in India, haphazard traffic movement is the order of the day […]
Integrated Control Centre for Metros
What happens when a metro railway system is approved? Consider a case where a metro has three isolated lines ? Line 1, Line 2 and […]
Risk Management:Elevated Metros
The importance of risk management in today?s complex elevated Metro projects, where cost overruns in design and construction are common place, cannot be emphasized more. […]
ITS Architecture can ensure sustainability
It defines ?what? must be done; not ?how? it will be done What is an ITS architecture? To know this, let us first try to […]
Network Visualisation in ITS – Information Exchange holds the key to solution of problems!
It is collaboration in ITS Architecture that brings the result. This, however, is quite natural. As collaboration brings in effectiveness efficiency, it produces the result. […]