High Speed Rail in India
The author takes a look at the issues involved in introducing the proposed High Speed Rail in the country. The Railways first proposed high speed […]
Category: Features
Unmanned Level Crossing Gate Warning System
Two researchers from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur have developed a new warning system for preventing accidents at unmanned level crossings in India. The Indian […]
Roads to Safety
India has the dubious distinction of having maximum number of fatalities on our roads. During the year 2012, 138275 people were killed in 4,90,000 accidents. […]
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 […]
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 […]