“We need to eliminate dangerous road safety products”
Yuvraj Singh Ahuja, Director, Frontier Polymers Pvt Ltd tells TrafficInfraTech the reasons why he has replaced metal road safety products with plastic
Category: Features
Automated Parking Systems A Growing Market In India
AutoPass India Ltd has introduced an exclusive ultrasonic state-of-the-art Parking Guidance System which helps motorists find the closest available parking from almost any location in […]
TERMINAL 3 Guiding to park
Automated Parking Management and Guidance System at Terminal 3’s Multi Level Car Parking help a motorist enter, park, pay and exit the parking area within five minutes. Vidyottama P Sharma has the details.
Seminars at the Expo They came, they discussed, they showed the way…
While exhibitors were busy handling the rush of visitors at their stalls, subjects of highway and urban traffic management and safety were being discussed in detail at seminars held side by side on the second and third days of TrafficInfraTech Expo. Experts discussed various related issues in depth and also took serious questions from the audience.
March 2: Round Table Conference India Perspective A decade of action plan for Road Safety
In a message issued on November 21, 2010 to commemorate the World Day of Remembrance of Road Traffic Victims, the UN Secretary General called on all countries, international government & non-government organisations, private sector and community leaders to ensure that the Decade of Action for Road Safety leads to “real improvements” to save lives.
“I want your suggestions for my city”
Sagar Naik, Mayor, Navi Mumbai flew down to Delhi specially to attend TrafficInfraTech Expo. TrafficInfraTech magazine caught up with him.
ITS paves the way in Canada
The pace of ITS technology deployment in Canada is increasing steadily. The Canadian Government, under the $2.1 billion Gateways and Border Crossings Fund (GBCF) programme, has allocated $400 million for the construction of new access roads, equipped with state-of-the-art ITS technologies for surveillance, real-time traveller information, fully-automated border clearance and commercial vehicle operation system technologies.
Vehicle Safety: It’s time for a revolution!
A revolution is taking place in Pedestrian Protection. While immense research is on in passive and active safety, it is important to accomplish new tests scenario where preventive safety systems are allowed to be kept in active crash tests
Bangalore does it with Blackberry
Today, nearly 50 major works related to surface transport are going on in Bangalore city – flyovers, underpasses, road widening and Metro work. Roads have been dug up for laying water sewerage pipe lines or power / telephone cables along 60km, which has affected 80 junctions. There are 70-80 junctions with traffic diversions. The number of vehicles on the roads has reached 35 lakh of which 75% are two-wheelers. There are 40,000 intersections of which at least 1000 require constant monitoring. Topping all these is the shortage of the police personnel. Yet, under the leadership of Praveen Sood, the Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, the Bangalore City Traffic Police has been keeping the city very much ‘under control’. Sood spoke with TrafficInfraTech’s Editor-in-Chief Mangala Chandran on the City’s Traffic Management Centre (TMC) and the adoption of technology to collect, process and disseminating traffic data.
From Hong Kong and China – Lessons in Parking Demand Forecasting
While forecasting parking demand, it is important to perform follow-up surveys over time to understand how the demand changes over time. The authors bring over 45 years of combined experience in transport planning to explain how parking demand can be assessed and how this demand can be managed, with specific reference to experience in Hong Kong and China.